RAPID PROTOTYPING OF PEAR DETECTION NEURAL NETWORK WITH YOLO ARCHITECTURE IN PHOTOGRAPHS

Fruit yield estimation and forecasting are essential processes for data-based decision-making in agribusiness to optimise fruit-growing and marketing operations. The yield forecasting is based on the application of historical data, which was collected in the result of periodic yield estimation. Meanwhile, the object detection methods and regression models are applied to calculate yield per tree. The application of powerful neural network architectures for rapid prototyping is a common approach of modern artificial intelligence engineering. Meanwhile, the most popular object detection solution is YOLO architecture. Our project team collected the dataset of fruiting pear tree photographs (Pear640) and trained YOLOv5m with [email protected] 95% and [email protected]:0.95 56%. The obtained results were compared with other YOLOv5-7.0 and YOLOv7 models and similar studies

DIGITAL TWIN: ORCHARD MANAGEMENT USING UAV

Orchard management can benefit greatly from the use of modern technology to reach higher yields, decrease costs and achieve more sustainable farming. Implementation or such a smart farming approach into orchard management can be realised via application of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) for data collection and artificial intelligence (AI) for yield estimation and forecasting. On top of that, a digital twin of the orchard can be implemented to represent the physical system of the orchard in the digital format allowing implement modern data-driven decision-making based on fruit-growing automation.The aim of this study is to present a digital twin based on application of UAV and AI for orchard management that is being developed as part of a research project lzp-2021/1-0134. At this moment, we are developing a user-centred design which is oriented to satisfy horticulture specialists’ needs for an autonomous monitoring system and to help them in decision-making. Within the framework of this study an enterprise model of orchard management is designed, which supports the digital twin concept and provides autonomous orchard monitoring. The study is scoped with subjects: apples, pears and cherries, and yield management based on orchard monitoring using UAV.