Article Dans Une Revue Precision Agriculture Année : 2021

A hybrid representation of the environment to improve autonomous navigation of mobile robots in agriculture

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This paper considers the problem of autonomous navigation in agricultural fields. It pro-poses a localization and mapping framework based on semantic place classification and key location estimation, which together build a hybrid topological map. This map bene-fits from generic partitioning of the field, which contains a finite set of welldifferentiated workspaces and, through a semantic analysis, it is possible to estimate in a probabilistic way the position (state) of a mobile system in the field. Moreover, this map integrates both metric (key locations) and semantic features (working areas). One of its advantages is that a full and precise map prior to navigation is not necessary. The identification of the key locations and working areas is carried out by a perception system based on 2D LIDAR and RGB cameras. Fusing these data with odometry allows the robot to be located in the topological map. The approach is assessed through off-line data recorded in real condi-tions in diverse fields during different seasons. It exploits a real-time object detector based on a convolutional neural network called you only look once, version 3, which has been trained to classify a considerable number of crops, including market-garden crops such as broccoli and cabbage, and to identify grapevine trunks. The results show the interest in the approach, which allows (i) obtaining a simple and easy-to-update map, (ii) avoiding the use of artificial landmarks, and thus (iii) improving the autonomy of agricultural robots.

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hal-04889052 , version 1 (15-01-2025)

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Luis Emmi, Emile Le Flecher, Viviane Cadenat, Michel Devy. A hybrid representation of the environment to improve autonomous navigation of mobile robots in agriculture. Precision Agriculture, 2021, 22, pp.524-549. ⟨10.1007/s11119-020-09773-9⟩. ⟨hal-04889052⟩
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