Path Recognition for Agricultural Robot Vision Navigation under Weed Environment

In this paper, a path recognition method for agricultural robot vision navigation under weed environment is proposed. The vision navigation is based on color images sampled by a high speed camera. First, the crop and weed information is extracted using an appropriate color feature model to separate the green crop from background; then the image is thresholded, and the noise caused by weed is filtered by deleting small-area objects in the image; the navigation path is extracted through Hough transformation. Experiments are carried out in corn seedling field, and results show that the method can recognize navigation path correctly under weed environment.