Autonomous Agriculture Robot for Smart Farming

August 2022

Authors : Vinay Ummadi, Aravind Gundlapalle, Althaf Shaik, Shaik Mohammad Rafi B

Abstract : This project aims to develop and demonstrate a ground robot with intelligence capable of conducting semi-autonomous farm operations for different low-heights vegetable crops referred as Agriculture Application Robot(AAR). AAR is a lightweight, solar-electric powered robot that uses intelligent perception for conducting detection and classification of plants and their characteristics. The system also has a robotic arm for the autonomous weed cutting process. The robot can deliver fertilizer spraying, insecticide, herbicide, and other fluids to the targets such as crops, weeds, and other pests. Besides, it provides information for future research into higher-level tasks such as yield estimation, crop, and soil health monitoring. We present the design of robot and the associated experiments which show the promising results in real world environments.

U-Net and its variants for Medical Image Segmentation : A short review

April 2022

Authors : Vinay Ummadi

Term Paper for Computer Vision in Spring 2022 @ IIT Kharagpur taught by Prof Debashis Sen

Abstract : The paper is a short review of medical image segmentation using U-Net and its variants. As we understand going through a medical images is not an easy job for any clinician either radiologist or pathologist. Analysing medical images is the only way to perform non-invasive diagnosis. Segmenting out the regions of interest has significant importance in medical images and is key for diagnosis. This paper also gives a bird eye view of how medical image segmentation has evolved. Also discusses challenge's and success of the deep neural architectures. Following how different hybrid architectures have built upon strong techniques from visual recognition tasks. In the end we will see current challenges and future directions for medical image segmentation(MIS).