RANGE IMAGE ANALYSIS FOR THE GREENHOUSE AUTOMATION IN INTELLIGENT PLANT FACTORY

摘要

In the paper, the range image analysis is examined. For the intelligent plant factory, computer integrated system has been introduced for these years. Now, it proved excellent to develop the intelligent plant factory. Further, it becomes necessary and inevitable that the characteristic of such the range images as crops and fruits distributed in these system should be taken into account to the decision factor of these systems. For the purpose of both designing of the virtual system and putting greenhouse automation including agro-robot into practice, 3-D recognition is an urgent theme. It is difficult, however, to do it for real time use in small computer. But, for agricultural purpose, it may be allowable that the model is limited to polyhedral shape with convex surface. In the condition, we proposes new approach to 3-D shape recognition for real time use. Supposing the parameter (e/L) given in Figure 6, effective algorithm is found for the agricultural use.