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  • Agricultural Engineering
  • Robotics
  • Geospatial Analysis

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  • Autonomous navigation in agriculture requires accurate path planning.
  • Manual map creation for agricultural vehicles is labor-intensive and prone to errors.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-based coverage path planning system for automating agricultural vehicle guidance.
  • To reduce operator intervention in creating navigation maps and improve operational efficiency.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized low-altitude UAV photogrammetry to generate high-resolution orthophoto maps for spatial information.
  • Developed automatic generation of travel and working paths from operator-selected anchor points in image coordinates.
  • Implemented Mercator projection for converting pixel coordinates to geographic coordinates (latitude and longitude).
  • Created a Graphical User Interface (GUI) for path generation, visualization, and evaluation.

Main Results:

  • Path planning calculation accuracy showed a mean planar coordinate error of 2.23 cm and a maximum error of 3.37 cm.
  • Field tests with an unmanned high-clearance sprayer demonstrated lateral navigation errors within ±5.5 cm.
  • The system proved feasible and highly accurate for autonomous agricultural vehicle navigation.

Conclusions:

  • The developed UAV-based coverage path planning method offers a feasible and accurate solution for autonomous agricultural vehicle operations.
  • This technology effectively automates guidance and reduces operator workload in precision agriculture.
  • It represents a significant advancement towards fully autonomous agricultural vehicle systems.