arXiv:2502.14455cs.ROcs.AI2025-02被引 15

用智能微型无人机群巡检农田害虫,高效省时。

An Efficient Ground-aerial Transportation System for Pest Control Enabled by AI-based Autonomous Nano-UAVs

  • 设计轻量级神经网络,0.58亿次运算实现高精度虫害识别
  • 25架无人机巡查200×200米葡萄园,可节省20小时作业时间
  • 支持实时避障,适合在复杂田间环境部署

高效农作物生产需早期发现虫害并及时处理。本文提出一种由多架自主微型无人机(nano-UAVs)组成的系统:无人机负责视觉检测害虫,单辆慢速重型车辆则前往发现的热点区域进行防治。为应对纳米无人机上低分辨率传感器和低于100毫瓦算力预算的限制,我们设计、微调并优化了一个极小的基于图像的卷积神经网络(CNN),其推理仅需0.58亿次操作/帧,在自建数据集上达到0.79的平均精度(mAP),比文献中最佳模型低14% mAP,但运算量减少32倍;该模型在GWT GAP9芯片上以6.8帧/秒实时运行,仅耗电33毫瓦。此外,采用基于A*算法的全局+局部路径规划策略:全局路径规划覆盖整个区域,局部路径每秒最多更新50次,实现实时避障。仿真实验表明,25架无人机完成200×200米葡萄园扫描后,可生成最优路径供拖拉机精准访问所有需处理区域。相比传统单辆地面车承担巡检与防治任务,本系统最高可节省20小时工作时间。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Efficient crop production requires early detection of pest outbreaks and timely treatments; we consider a solution based on a fleet of multiple autonomous miniaturized unmanned aerial vehicles (nano-UAVs) to visually detect pests and a single slower heavy vehicle that visits the detected outbreaks to deliver treatments. To cope with the extreme limitations aboard nano-UAVs, e.g., low-resolution sensors and sub-100 mW computational power budget, we design, fine-tune, and optimize a tiny image-based convolutional neural network (CNN) for pest detection. Despite the small size of our CNN (i.e., 0.58 GOps/inference), on our dataset, it scores a mean average precision (mAP) of 0.79 in detecting harmful bugs, i.e., 14% lower mAP but 32x fewer operations than the best-performing CNN in the literature. Our CNN runs in real-time at 6.8 frame/s, requiring 33 mW on a GWT GAP9 System-on-Chip aboard a Crazyflie nano-UAV. Then, to cope with in-field unexpected obstacles, we leverage a global+local path planner based on the A* algorithm. The global path planner determines the best route for the nano-UAV to sweep the entire area, while the local one runs up to 50 Hz aboard our nano-UAV and prevents collision by adjusting the short-distance path. Finally, we demonstrate with in-simulator experiments that once a 25 nano-UAVs fleet has combed a 200x200 m vineyard, collected information can be used to plan the best path for the tractor, visiting all and only required hotspots. In this scenario, our efficient transportation system, compared to a traditional single-ground vehicle performing both inspection and treatment, can save up to 20 h working time.

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