4 papers
Receding-Horizon Next-Best-View Planner for Autonomous Leaf Surface Reconstruction
Arif Ahmed, Sajal K. Das, Parikshit Maini
Accurate plant leaf modeling is fundamental to downstream tasks such as plant growth monitoring, and phenotyping for yield estimation. Autonomous robotic reconstruction for large-s…
Review and Evaluation of Point-Cloud based Leaf Surface Reconstruction Methods for Agricultural Applications
Arif Ahmed, Parikshit Maini
Accurate reconstruction of leaf surfaces from 3D point cloud is essential for agricultural applications such as phenotyping. However, real-world plant data (i.e., irregular 3D poin…
Learning to Predict Mobile Robot Stability in Off-Road Environments
Nathaniel Rose, Arif Ahmed, Emanuel Gutierrez-Cornejo +1
Navigating in off-road environments for wheeled mobile robots is challenging due to dynamic and rugged terrain. Traditional physics-based stability metrics, such as Static Stabilit…
SARAL-Bot: Autonomous Robot for Strawberry Plant Care
Arif Ahmed, Ritvik Agarwal, Gaurav Srikar +2
Strawberry farming demands intensive labor for monitoring and maintaining plant health. To address this, Team SARAL develops an autonomous robot for the 2024 ASABE Student Robotics…