System and method for automated odometry calibration for precision agriculture systems
AssigneeDeere & Company
InventorsLee Kamp Redden, Kent Anderson, Edward William Jeffcott Pell, James Patrick Ostrowski
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Abstract
A method including: recording a first image of a first field region; automatically treating a plant within the first region in-situ based on the first image: automatically verifying the plant treatment with a second image of the first region; and automatically treating a second region concurrently with treatment verification.
Claims21
(canceled)
A method for treating a plant in a field with a farming machine, the method comprising:
- capturing, using an imaging system on the farming machine, a series of images as the farming machine traverses through the field;
- generating an optical flow field from the series of images, the optical flow field representing changes between images in the series of images;
- implementing one or more motion correction factors for the farming machine, the one or more motion correction factors determined based on the optical flow field;
- and
- responsive to implementing the one or more motion correction factors:
- identifying the plant within at least one image of the series of images;
- and
- treating the plant in the field as the farming machine traverses over the plant.
A method for treating a plant in a field with a farming machine, the method comprising:
- an imaging system configured to capture images of the field as the farming machine traverses through the field;
- a treatment mechanism configured to treat plants in the field as the farming machine traverses through the field;
- one or more processors;
- and
- a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions for treating a plant in a field that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform steps comprising:
- capturing, using the imaging system, a series of images as the farming machine traverses through the field;
- generating an optical flow field from the series of images, the optical flow field representing changes between images in the series of images;
- implementing one or more motion correction factors for the farming machine, the one or more motion correction factors determined based on the optical flow field;
- and
- responsive to implementing the one or more motion correction factors:
- identifying the plant within at least one image of the series of images;
- and
- treating, with the treatment mechanism, the plant in the field as the farming machine traverses over the plant.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions for treating a plant in a field using a farming machine that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform steps comprising:
- capturing, using an imaging system on the farming machine, a series of images as the farming machine traverses through the field;
- generating an optical flow field from the series of images, the optical flow field representing changes between images in the series of images;
- implementing one or more motion correction factors for the farming machine, the one or more motion correction factors determined based on the optical flow field;
- and
- responsive to implementing the one or more motion correction factors:
- identifying the plant within at least one image of the series of images;
- and
- treating the plant in the field as the farming machine traverses over the plant.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.