Rihem Farkh^*, Khaled Aljaloud

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.35, No.1, pp. 901-911, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.027614

Abstract In a controlled indoor environment, line tracking has become the most practical and reliable navigation strategy for autonomous mobile robots. A line tracking robot is a self-mobile machine that can recognize and track a painted line on the floor. In general, the path is set and can be visible, such as a black line on a white surface with high contrasting colors. The robot’s path is marked by a distinct line or track, which the robot follows to move. Several scientific contributions from the disciplines of vision and control have been made to mobile robot vision-based navigation. Localization, automated map… More >

Zhibin Zhang^1,2,*, Ping Li^1,3, Shuailing Zhao^1,2, Zhimin Lv^1,2, Fang Du^1,2, Yajian An^1,2

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.66, No.1, pp. 1043-1056, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.012517

Abstract As the agricultural internet of things (IoT) technology has evolved, smart agricultural robots needs to have both flexibility and adaptability when moving in complex field environments. In this paper, we propose the concept of a vision-based navigation system for the agricultural IoT and a binocular vision navigation algorithm for smart agricultural robots, which can fuse the edge contour and the height information of rows of crop in images to extract the navigation parameters. First, the speeded-up robust feature (SURF) extracting and matching algorithm is used to obtain featuring point pairs from the green crop row images observed by the binocular… More >