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A drone that learns to efficiently find non-uniformly distributed objects in agricultural fields: from simulation to the real world
Rick van Essen, Eldert van Henten, Gert Kootstra
Drones are promising for data collection in precision agriculture but are limited by battery capacity. Drone paths are usually planned using full coverage planners, even though thi…
UAV-based path planning for efficient localization of non-uniformly distributed weeds using prior knowledge: A reinforcement-learning approach
Rick van Essen, Eldert van Henten, Gert Kootstra
UAVs are becoming popular in agriculture, however, they usually use time-consuming row-by-row flight paths. This paper presents a deep-reinforcement-learning-based approach for pat…
A comparison between single-stage and two-stage 3D tracking algorithms for greenhouse robotics
David Rapado-Rincon, Akshay K. Burusa, Eldert J. van Henten +1
With the current demand for automation in the agro-food industry, accurately detecting and localizing relevant objects in 3D is essential for successful robotic operations. However…
Gradient-based Local Next-best-view Planning for Improved Perception of Targeted Plant Nodes
Akshay K. Burusa, Eldert J. van Henten, Gert Kootstra
Robots are increasingly used in tomato greenhouses to automate labour-intensive tasks such as selective harvesting and de-leafing. To perform these tasks, robots must be able to ac…
MOT-DETR: 3D Single Shot Detection and Tracking with Transformers to build 3D representations for Agro-Food Robots
David Rapado-Rincon, Henk Nap, Katarina Smolenova +2
In the current demand for automation in the agro-food industry, accurately detecting and localizing relevant objects in 3D is essential for successful robotic operations. However,…
MinkSORT: A 3D deep feature extractor using sparse convolutions to improve 3D multi-object tracking in greenhouse tomato plants
David Rapado-Rincon, Eldert J. van Henten, Gert Kootstra
The agro-food industry is turning to robots to address the challenge of labour shortage. However, agro-food environments pose difficulties for robots due to high variation and occl…