Deep Semantic Segmentation at the Edge for Autonomous Navigation in Vineyard Rows

07/01/2021
by   Diego Aghi, et al.
0

Precision agriculture is a fast-growing field that aims at introducing affordable and effective automation into agricultural processes. Nowadays, algorithmic solutions for navigation in vineyards require expensive sensors and high computational workloads that preclude large-scale applicability of autonomous robotic platforms in real business case scenarios. From this perspective, our novel proposed control leverages the latest advancement in machine perception and edge AI techniques to achieve highly affordable and reliable navigation inside vineyard rows with low computational and power consumption. Indeed, using a custom-trained segmentation network and a low-range RGB-D camera, we are able to take advantage of the semantic information of the environment to produce smooth trajectories and stable control in different vineyards scenarios. Moreover, the segmentation maps generated by the control algorithm itself could be directly exploited as filters for a vegetative assessment of the crop status. Extensive experimentations and evaluations against real-world data and simulated environments demonstrated the effectiveness and intrinsic robustness of our methodology.

READ FULL TEXT

page 2

page 5

page 7

research
12/07/2021

A Deep Learning Driven Algorithmic Pipeline for Autonomous Navigation in Row-Based Crops

Expensive sensors and inefficient algorithmic pipelines significantly af...
research
06/27/2023

Enhancing Navigation Benchmarking and Perception Data Generation for Row-based Crops in Simulation

Service robotics is recently enhancing precision agriculture enabling ma...
research
04/18/2023

Autonomous Navigation in Rows of Trees and High Crops with Deep Semantic Segmentation

Segmentation-based autonomous navigation has recently been proposed as a...
research
09/13/2023

Lavender Autonomous Navigation with Semantic Segmentation at the Edge

Achieving success in agricultural activities heavily relies on precise n...
research
05/23/2021

Insect-Computer Hybrid System for Autonomous Search and Rescue Mission

There is still a long way to go before artificial mini robots are really...
research
06/28/2022

Position-Agnostic Autonomous Navigation in Vineyards with Deep Reinforcement Learning

Precision agriculture is rapidly attracting research to efficiently intr...
research
05/26/2020

Local Motion Planner for Autonomous Navigation in Vineyards with a RGB-D Camera-Based Algorithm and Deep Learning Synergy

With the advent of agriculture 3.0 and 4.0, researchers are increasingly...

Please sign up or login with your details

Forgot password? Click here to reset