A Smart Droplet Detection Approach With Vision Sensing Technique for Agricultural Aviation Application

Deep learning has been widely used in various sensor detection fields to realize intelligent detection tasks. However, there are always restrictions on how these functions can be integrated into embedded devices to complete mobile and convenient sensing detection tasks. Therefore, the MobileNet_SSD, A lightweight model after simplification and optimization, is used in this paper to design a portable visual sensor system for the detection of spray droplet deposition in drone applications. The sensing system includes a droplet deposition image loop acquisition device and a supporting host computer interactive platform. It introduces the Sarsa algorithm to establish an adaptive model of light intensity to enhance the robustness and combines Deep Neural Networks and image processing technology to achieve rapid loop detection of droplet deposition parameters on the mobile terminal. Experimental results indicate that the proposed sensor can adapt to light changes in complex environments, and accurately measure the deposition parameters of different droplet density images. Furthermore, it is of great significance to detect the quality of drone sprays, master the rules of droplet deposition, and understand the effects of pesticide spraying.