Agricultural Robotics Vision Processing & Path Planning Algorithm Development

During my time at Georgia Tech I worked with the Agricultural Robotics Research lab as a research assistant. My team was tasked with creating code that could identify apples and then guide a robotic end of arm tool to secure it. I took the lead of a team with 3 other students to reason through the functional requirements of these algorithms which saw us initially work in MATLAB. I proposed an iterative approach for this development, applying agile/scrum methodology, which would see the functionality increase in complexity once we hit previous functional targets. The end goal for the vision processing algorithm was to process video input and identify the location of an apple. The demonstration below showcases the initial version of the path planning algorithm in action!