Deep Neural Network-Based System for Autonomous Navigation in Paddy Field

This paper presents a novel vision based approach for detecting rows of crop in paddy field. The precise detection of crop row enables a farm-tractor to autonomously navigate the field for successful inter-row weeding. While prior works on crop row detection rely primarily on various image based fea...

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Published in:IEEE access Vol. 8; pp. 71272 - 71278
Main Authors: Adhikari, Shyam P., Kim, Gookhwan, Kim, Hyongsuk
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Piscataway IEEE 2020
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects:
Agricultural machinery
Agriculture
Artificial neural networks
Autonomous navigation
Coders
Convolutional encoder-decoder network
crop line detection
Farms
Feature extraction
Graphics
Machine learning
Microsoft Windows
Neural networks
semantic graphics
Semantics
Steering
vision based control
Wheels
ISSN:2169-3536, 2169-3536
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Summary:This paper presents a novel vision based approach for detecting rows of crop in paddy field. The precise detection of crop row enables a farm-tractor to autonomously navigate the field for successful inter-row weeding. While prior works on crop row detection rely primarily on various image based features, a deep neural network based approach for learning semantic graphics to directly extract the crop rows from an input image is used in this work. A deep convolutional encoder decoder network is trained to detect the crop lines using semantic graphics. The detected crop lines are then used to derive control signal for steering the tractor autonomously in the field. The results demonstrate that the proposed method is able to detect the rows of paddy accurately and enable the tractor to navigate autonomously along the crop rows even with a simple proportional only controller.
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ISSN:2169-3536
2169-3536
DOI:10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2987642