Aiming at the problems such as the uneven ground and the shaking of the fuselage in the current ridging and film-covering machinery operation, the positioning of the machine is inaccurate, the straightness deviation of the ridge body is large, and the stability is poor. An autonomous navigation control method based on Express long range system (ExpressLRS) was proposed. A light and simplified electric crawler-type autonomous navigation ridging and film-covering machine was designed to realize the functions of ridging, film-covering, soilcovering, and improve the straightness of the operation. The key parameters of the ridging mechanism were designed and calculated, and the Kalman filter algorithm was used to build an autonomous navigation control system based on ExpressLRS. Using WitMotion’s uniaxial angle measuring sensor HWT101CT for prototype production, the test results showed that the yaw angle fluctuation range of the prototype was between -2.5°and 3.5°, the mean deviation of the lateral position was within 3cm, which met the design requirements and proves that the system was feasible and effective. The best navigation effect was at speed of 0.1m/s to 0.2m/s. The field test of prototype showed that the ridge height of 170mm had the best effect. Among them, the qualified rate of the ridge height was 86.67%, the qualified rate of the ridge top width was 93.33%, and the qualified rate of the ridge bottom width was 86.67%. All the coefficients of variation were less than 6%, indicating that the uniformity of the ridge body was high. Ridge straightness of 2.21cm, ridge top flatness of 1.22cm indicated that the autonomous navigation straight line driving function qualified, the evaluation indicators met the design requirements of ridge laminating machine.