VISUAL OUTDOOR PATH PLANNER FOR ORANGE GROVES BASED ON ENSEMBLES OF NEURAL NETWORKS

Joaquín Torres-Sospedra, Patricio Nebot

2011

Abstract

One of the most important system to deploy for a robot navigating in an outdoor scenario, as can be an orange grove, is the navigation system. In this paper, a path planner in orange groves for an autonomous robotic system is presented. This path planner is based on a previous classification of the image that the robot gets from its visual sensory system. One of the most important technique used to generate accurate classifiers is based on training an ensemble of neural networks. Here, a simple ensemble of neural networks is used to classify images from an orange grove using wavelets features. With the classification image obtained, the most important lines of the land are extracted with the Hough transform. The final path line is determined with these lines. The purpose of this paper is to determine if the ensemble approach can be useful in the procedure to design an accurate path planner for outdoor autonomous robots in orange groves. The published results show that ensembles can be considered for this type of applications.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Torres-Sospedra J. and Nebot P. (2011). VISUAL OUTDOOR PATH PLANNER FOR ORANGE GROVES BASED ON ENSEMBLES OF NEURAL NETWORKS . In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO, ISBN 978-989-8425-75-1, pages 223-228. DOI: 10.5220/0003537602230228

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icinco11,
author={Joaquín Torres-Sospedra and Patricio Nebot},
title={VISUAL OUTDOOR PATH PLANNER FOR ORANGE GROVES BASED ON ENSEMBLES OF NEURAL NETWORKS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO,},
year={2011},
pages={223-228},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003537602230228},
isbn={978-989-8425-75-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO,
TI - VISUAL OUTDOOR PATH PLANNER FOR ORANGE GROVES BASED ON ENSEMBLES OF NEURAL NETWORKS
SN - 978-989-8425-75-1
AU - Torres-Sospedra J.
AU - Nebot P.
PY - 2011
SP - 223
EP - 228
DO - 10.5220/0003537602230228