Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : June 06, 2021 - June 08, 2021
In the northern part of Tokushima Prefecture, lotus root cultivation is flourishing. However, the area is plagued with damage caused by ducks and turtles, which caused about 20 million yen in damage to lotus root in 2006. In particular, ducks act in group in the night, so the damage caused by once is large and it is difficult to take countermeasures at night. Although nets and tegus have been used as a countermeasure, the ducks themselves are often caught damage to the ducks themselves. Therefore, we focused on countermeasures using water drones. By developing a water drone equipped with a green lamp, which ducks hate, we can prevent damage to ducks. In this study, we have been developed a visual detection system by using YOLOv5, which is a machine learning algorithm for the image recognition. Some experimental results show our system is effective to detect duck in the lotus root farm.
