2019 ASHS Annual Conference

In strawberry field operations, activities such as harvesting and disease/nutrient deficiency detection are labor intensive. In this talk, we will discuss several tools been developed to enable robotic operations for those labor intensive activities. (1) A vision based robust controller is developed for field robot scouting. (2) An algorithm is studied to differentiate green and yellow leaves in different lighting conditions. (3) A new image processing tool is investigated to detect nutrient deficiencies. (4) A real-time, suboptimal method is experimented for leaf picking.