Journal of Information Processing Systems

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ICT Agriculture Support System for Chili Pepper Harvesting

  • Byun, Younghwan (Dept. of Information and Communication Engineering, Chungbuk National University) ;
  • Oh, Sechang (Dept. of Computer Software, Sejong Cyber University) ;
  • Choi, Min (Dept. of Information and Communication Engineering, Chungbuk National University)
  • Received : 2017.04.10
  • Accepted : 2018.03.28
  • Published : 2020.06.30
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Abstract

In this paper, an unmanned automation system for harvesting chili peppers through image recognition in the color space is proposed. We developed a cutting-edge technology in terms of convergence between information and communication technology (ICT) and agriculture. Agriculture requires a lot of manpower and entails hard work by the laborers. In this study, we developed an autonomous application that can obtain the head coordinates of a chili pepper using image recognition based on the OpenCV library. As an alternative solution to labor shortages in rural areas, a robot-based chili pepper harvester is proposed as a convergence technology between ICT and agriculture requiring hard labor. Although agriculture is currently a very important industry for human workers, in the future, we expect robots to have the capability of harvesting chili peppers autonomously.

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