Performance Analysis in Object Diameter Estimation based on Single and Multiple Non-Destructive and Discrete Infrared Sensors
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https://doi.org/10.11113/jt.v67.2028Keywords:
Diameter measurement, infrared sensors, autonomously detection, dead-reckoning detection, landmark detectionAbstract
In Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) technique, recognizing and marking the landmarks in the environment is very important. Therefore, in a commercial farm, rows of trees, borderline of rows as well as the trees and other features are mostly used by the researchers in realizing the automation process in this field. In this paper, the detection of the tree based on its diameter is focused. There are few techniques available in determining the size of the tree trunk inclusive of the laser scanning method as well as image-based measurements. However, those techniques require heavy computations and equipments which become constraints in a lightweight unmanned aerial vehicle implementation. Therefore, in this paper, the detection of an object by using a single and multiple infrared sensors on a non-stationary automated vehicle platform is discussed. The experiments were executed on different size of objects in order to investigate the effectiveness of this proposed method. This work is initially tested on the ground, based in the lab environment by using an omni directional vehicle which later will be adapted on a small-scale unmanned aerial vehicle implementation for tree diameter estimation in the agriculture farm. In the current study, comparing multiple sensors with single sensor orientation showed that the average percentage of the pass rate in the pole recognition for the former is relatively more accurate than the latter with 93.2 percent and 74.2 percent, respectively.
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