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Mingfang Chen1, Zhongping Chen1, Xiuming Cui2
1School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650500, China.
Abstract:
In the Panax notoginseng quality intelligent management system, the big roots and fibrous roots cannot be cut automatically because the machine cannot distinguish the taproot, big roots, and fibrous roots of Panax notoginseng, resulting in the automatic cutting mechanism unable to obtain the control trajectory coordinate reference of the tool feed. To solve this problem, this paper proposes a visual optimal network model detection method, which uses the image detection method of marking anchor frames to improve the detection accuracy. A variety of deep learning network models are modified by the TensorFlow framework, and the best training model is optimized by comparing the results of training, testing, and verification data. This model is used to automatically identify the taproots and provide the control trajectory coordinate reference for the actuator that cuts big roots and fibrous roots automatically. The experimental results show that the optimal network model studied in this paper is effective and accurate in identifying the taproots of Panax notoginseng.

