Vision-based navigation and guidance for agricultural autonomous vehicles and robots: A review

Y Bai, B Zhang, N Xu, J Zhou, J Shi, Z Diao - Computers and Electronics in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Autonomous navigation of agricultural robots and vehicles in agricultural environments is a
prerequisite for the accomplishment of various tasks. However, precision navigation of …

A review on weed detection using ground-based machine vision and image processing techniques

A Wang, W Zhang, X Wei - Computers and electronics in agriculture, 2019 - Elsevier
Weeds are among the major factors that could harm crop yield. With the advances in
electronic and information technologies, machine vision combined with image processing …

Fleets of robots for environmentally-safe pest control in agriculture

P Gonzalez-de-Santos, A Ribeiro… - Precision …, 2017 - Springer
Feeding the growing global population requires an annual increase in food production. This
requirement suggests an increase in the use of pesticides, which represents an …

Quantifying efficacy and limits of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology for weed seedling detection as affected by sensor resolution

JM Peña, J Torres-Sánchez, A Serrano-Pérez… - Sensors, 2015 - mdpi.com
In order to optimize the application of herbicides in weed-crop systems, accurate and timely
weed maps of the crop-field are required. In this context, this investigation quantified the …

Navigation path extraction for greenhouse cucumber-picking robots using the prediction-point Hough transform

J Chen, H Qiang, J Wu, G Xu, Z Wang - Computers and Electronics in …, 2021 - Elsevier
Accurate extraction of navigation path is very important for automated navigation of
agricultural robots. Based on the machine vision system, this paper proposes a new …

Automated robust crop-row detection in maize fields based on position clustering algorithm and shortest path method

X Zhang, X Li, B Zhang, J Zhou, G Tian, Y Xiong… - … and electronics in …, 2018 - Elsevier
Crop row detection is critical for precision agriculture and automatic navigation. In this paper,
a novel automatic and robust crop row detection method is proposed for maize fields based …

Improved real-time semantic segmentation network model for crop vision navigation line detection

M Cao, F Tang, P Ji, F Ma - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Field crops are generally planted in rows to improve planting efficiency and facilitate field
management. Therefore, automatic detection of crop planting rows is of great significance for …

Crop row segmentation and detection in paddy fields based on treble-classification otsu and double-dimensional clustering method

Y Yu, Y Bao, J Wang, H Chu, N Zhao, Y He, Y Liu - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
Visual navigation is developing rapidly and is of great significance to improve agricultural
automation. The most important issue involved in visual navigation is extracting a guidance …

An improved fast fuzzy c-means using crow search optimization algorithm for crop identification in agricultural

AM Anter, AE Hassenian, D Oliva - Expert Systems with Applications, 2019 - Elsevier
In this article is introduced an improved version of Fast Fuzzy C-Means (FFCM) by using the
Crow Search optimization Algorithm (CSA) for the task of data clustering. In the proposed …

Morphology-based guidance line extraction for an autonomous weeding robot in paddy fields

KH Choi, SK Han, SH Han, KH Park, KS Kim… - … and Electronics in …, 2015 - Elsevier
The guidance line extracted from an image of a rice row precisely guides a robot for weed
control in paddy fields. The guidance line enables the robot to follow the crop row without …