Title
Vision-Based Mowing Boundary Detection Algorithm for an Autonomous Lawn Mower.
Abstract
This study proposes a vision-based mowing boundary detection algorithm for an autonomous lawn mower. An autonomous lawn mower requires high moving accuracy for efficient mowing. This problem is solved by using a vision system to detect the boundary of two regions, i.e., before and after the lawn mowing process. The mowing boundary cannot be detected directly because it is ambiguous. Therefore, we utilize a texture classification method with a bank of filters for classifying the input image of the lawn field into two regions as mentioned above. The classification is performed by threshold processing based on a chi-squared statistic. Then, the boundary line is detected from the classified regions by using Random sample consensus (RANSAC). Finally, we apply the proposed method to 12 images of the lawn field and verified that the proposed method can detect a mowing boundary line with centimeter accuracy in a dense lawn field.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2016
JOURNAL OF ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND INTELLIGENT INFORMATICS
autonomous lawn mower,texture classification,a bank of filters,Gabor filter,RANSAC
Field
DocType
Volume
Computer vision,Pattern recognition,RANSAC,Computer science,Lawn,Vision based,Mower,Gabor filter,Boundary detection,Artificial intelligence
Journal
20
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
1343-0130
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
6
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tomoya Fukukawa130.75
Kosuke Sekiyama229658.93
Yasuhisa Hasegawa345694.62
Toshio Fukuda400.68