Autonomous Driving System In The Agricultural Field By Means Of An Infrared Camera

Abstract

Autonomous driving method in the agricultural field by means of an thermal camera comprising the procedure of obtaining an interpolating function of at least two pixels, of alignments of plants or swaths of a thermal image that appears in front of an agricultural vehicle, acquired through at least one thermal camera, said at least two pixels being corresponding to at least two homologous peaks identified in as many at least two vectors built on values of temperature intensity of corresponding consecutive pixels belonging to as many straight and horizontal lines of pixels extracted from the thermal image and a procedure for calculating an angular phase shift and/or a lateral deviation of the interpolating function with respect to a vertical axis of the thermal image.

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