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Potato operation: automatic detection of potato diseases

Published inOptics in Agriculture, Forestry and Biological Processing, Editors George E. Meyer and James A. DeShazer, p. 2-9
Presented at Boston (USA), October 31, 1994
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  • SPIE Proceedings; 2345
Publication date1994
Abstract

The Potato Operation is a collaborative, multidisciplinary project in the domain of destructive testing of agricultural products. It aims at automatizing pulp sampling of potatoes in order to detect possible viral diseases. Such viruses can decrease fields productivity by a factor of up to ten. A machine, composed of three conveyor belts, a vision system, a robotic arm and controlled by a PC has been built. Potatoes are brought one by one from a bulk to the vision system, where they are seized by a rotating holding device. The sprouts, where the viral activity is maximum, are then detected by an active vision process operating on multiple views. The 3D coordinates of the sampling point are communicated to the robot arm holding a drill. Some flesh is then sampled by the drill, then deposited into an Elisa plate. After sampling, the robot arm washes the drill in order to prevent any contamination. The PC computer simultaneously controls these processes, the conveying of the potatoes, the vision algorithms and the sampling procedure. The master process, that is the vision procedure, makes use of three methods to achieve the sprouts detection. A profile analysis first locates the sprouts as protuberances. Two frontal analyses, respectively based on fluorescence and local variance, confirm the previous detection and provide the 3D coordinate of the sampling zone. The other two processes work by interruption of the master process.

Keywords
  • Diseases and disorders
  • Vision
  • Luminescence
  • Viruses
  • Active vision
  • Agriculture
  • Algorithms
  • Computing systems
  • Contamination
NotePublié aussi dans: Photonics for Industrial Applications: International Society for Optics and Photonics. 1995, p. 2-9
Citation (ISO format)
LEFEBVRE, Marc et al. Potato operation: automatic detection of potato diseases. In: Optics in Agriculture, Forestry and Biological Processing. Boston (USA). [s.l.] : [s.n.], 1994. p. 2–9. (SPIE Proceedings) doi: 10.1117/12.198858
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