Robotic weed control system

The prototype robotic weed control system.

Tomato Plant Recognition Procedure.

Raw image of a tomato seedling and weeds in a commercial tomato field.

Processed binary image using plant color.

Feature extraction of each objects.

Processed image, tomato leaves in green & weeds in red.

Tomato cells (green cells), buffer zone (blue cells around green cells),
and spray zone (red cells) overlaid on the original image.

Tests of the Robotic Weed Control System
in Commercial Tomato Fields

Photographs Showing the Successful Precision Application of Spray
on Weeds by the Robotic Weed Control System

Recognition of Transgenic Purple Tomato Plant using Color Only

Transgenic purple tomato plant and green weeds in UC Davis experimental field.

Recognized tomato plant in green and weeds in red.