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

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Volumn 113, Issue , 2015, Pages 266-274

  Choi, Keun Ha ^a   Han, Sang Kwon ^a   Han, Sang Hoon ^a   Park, Kwang Ho ^b   Kim, Kyung Soo ^a   Kim, Soohyun ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b Korea National College of Agriculture and Fisheries   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Autonomous guidance; Guidance line extraction; Morphological characteristic; Weed control; Weeding robot

Indexed keywords

CROPS; EXTRACTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; HOUGH TRANSFORMS; PLANTS (BOTANY); WEED CONTROL;

AUTONOMOUS GUIDANCE; INTERSECTION POINTS; LINE EXTRACTION; MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTIC; NAVIGATION ACCURACY; PADDY RICE FIELDS; ROBUST REGRESSIONS; WEEDING ROBOTS;

ROBOTS;

ALGORITHM; CROP PLANT; MORPHOLOGY; PADDY FIELD; PHOTOGRAPHY; RICE; SEGMENTATION; WEED CONTROL;

EID: 84925305286     PISSN: 01681699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2015.02.014     Document Type: Article

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