开发可自动采收与授粉的猕猴桃机器人,突破传统机械覆盖盲区。
Robots for Kiwifruit Harvesting and Pollination
- 设计新型采摘机构,可覆盖80%以上密集果丛,优于旧方案的70%。
- 实现1.4米/秒高速下精准喷洒授粉,通过高度自适应调节喷头位置。
- 融合3D激光雷达与视觉技术,支持果园自主导航,实测超30公里无故障运行。
本研究是开发可在棚架式猕猴桃果园中执行靶向授粉与自动化采收的移动机器人项目的一部分。设计了多种猕猴桃脱落机制,其中一种在实地测试中可靠完成采收,可触及超过80%的果实,显著优于此前不到70%的覆盖水平。人工授粉通过检测花朵后,以喷雾方式将花粉溶液喷洒至目标花上,机器人行驶速度最高达1.4米/秒。同时,系统通过测量树冠高度动态调节喷杆高度,确保喷洒有效且避免与枝叶碰撞。在导航方面,采用2D激光雷达在苹果园和葡萄园中实现导航;而在猕猴桃果园中,因棚架结构提供的行线数据较少,叠加树冠、起伏地面等干扰,3D激光雷达导航更具挑战性。本文提出多种从3D激光雷达数据中提取结构特征的方法,并测试了一套完整的3D激光雷达导航系统,包括行进追踪、行末识别与转弯,实现了超过30公里的自主驾驶。此外,计算机视觉行线检测与追踪算法也进行了测试,其表现与3D激光雷达方法相当。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
This research was a part of a project that developed mobile robots that performed targeted pollen spraying and automated harvesting in pergola structured kiwifruit orchards. Multiple kiwifruit detachment mechanisms were designed and field testing of one of the concepts showed that the mechanism could reliably pick kiwifruit. Furthermore, this kiwifruit detachment mechanism was able to reach over 80 percent of fruit in the cluttered kiwifruit canopy, whereas the previous state of the art mechanism was only able to reach less than 70 percent of the fruit. Artificial pollination was performed by detecting flowers and then spraying pollen in solution onto the detected flowers from a line of sprayers on a boom, while driving at up to 1.4 ms-1. In addition, the height of the canopy was measured and the spray boom was moved up and down to keep the boom close enough to the flowers for the spray to reach the flowers, while minimising collisions with the canopy. Mobile robot navigation was performed using a 2D lidar in apple orchards and vineyards. Lidar navigation in kiwifruit orchards was more challenging because the pergola structure only provides a small amount of data for the direction of rows, compared to the amount of data from the overhead canopy, the undulating ground and other objects in the orchards. Multiple methods are presented here for extracting structure defining features from 3D lidar data in kiwifruit orchards. In addition, a 3D lidar navigation system -- which performed row following, row end detection and row end turns -- was tested for over 30 km of autonomous driving in kiwifruit orchards. Computer vision algorithms for row detection and row following were also tested. The computer vision algorithm worked as well as the 3D lidar row following method in testing.
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