Journal
AGRICULTURE-BASEL
Volume 12, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/agriculture12030428
Keywords
machine vision; image processing; two-wheeled robot trailer; steering control; strip farming
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- Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), Taiwan [MOST 109-2321-B-020-004, MOST 110-2221-E-020-019]
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This study investigates a method using mathematical morphology and Hough transformation to enable a robot to autonomously follow a drip tape. The proposed method extracts the drip tape from images and estimates the deviation angle to achieve stable robot navigation. Experimental results demonstrate superior performance compared to other edge detection methods.
Due to the complex environment in the field, using machine vision technology to enable the robot to travel autonomously was a challenging task. This study investigates a method based on mathematical morphology and Hough transformation for drip tape following by a two-wheeled robot trailer. First, an image processing technique was utilized to extract the drip tape in the image, including the selection of the region of interest (ROI), Red-Green-Blue (RGB) to Hue-SaturationValue (HSV) color space conversion, color channel selection, Otsu's binarization, and morphological operations. The line segments were obtained from the extracted drip tapes image by a Hough line transform operation. Next, the deviation angle between the line segment and the vertical line in the center of the image was estimated through the two-dimensional law of cosines. The steering control system could adjust the rotation speed of the left and right wheels of the robot to reduce the deviation angle, so that the robot could stably travel along the drip tape, including turning. The guiding performance was evaluated on the test path formed by a drip tape in the field. The experimental results show that the proposed method could achieve an average line detection rate of 97.3% and an average lateral error of 2.6 +/- 1.1 cm, which was superior to other drip-tape-following methods combined with edge detection, such as Canny and Laplacian.
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