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Total Citations
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About
Hitoshi Sori is a robotics researcher whose work sits at the intersection of precision agriculture and intelligent autonomous systems. His primary research focus is the development of autonomous weeding robots for wet rice cultivation, a domain where he has made pioneering contributions toward reducing chemical herbicide use. Sori’s most impactful work, "Effect for a Paddy Weeding Robot in Wet Rice Culture" (2018, 43 citations), demonstrates a fully autonomous robot capable of navigating paddy fields while mechanically weeding, addressing the growing demand for pesticide-free produce and lower environmental impact. He has also advanced the field by integrating capacitive touch sensors for rice plant line detection and developing turning algorithms for field navigation, as seen in his 2013 and 2015 conference papers. More recently, Sori has expanded into multi-agent reinforcement learning, exploring comparative analyses of Dueling DQN and centralized critic approaches (2024). His cumulative work, spanning from sensor systems to control algorithms and AI-driven navigation, establishes him as a key figure in agricultural robotics, with his 2018 paper serving as a foundational reference for researchers developing sustainable, autonomous farming solutions.
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- 1Effect for a Paddy Weeding Robot in Wet Rice Culture43 citations · 2018
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- 3S151013 Development of Weeding Robot for Paddy Field2 citations · 2013
- 42P1-B09 Weeding Robot Control for Rice Plant Line Following2 citations · 2015
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- 7G151036 Development of Turning Algorithm for Autonomous Weeding Robot1 citations · 2013