Multi-view Point‑Cloud 3D Reconstruction and Deep Segmentation of Tomato Plants for Harvesting Robot Obstacle Avoidance
摘要
During automatic fruit and vegetable harvesting, interference from plant stems and branches can significantly reduce the success rate and operational efficiency of harvesting robots. Therefore, accurate three-dimensional reconstruction of plant obstacles is essential for effective robotic harvesting. This paper proposes an integrated framework for tomato plant reconstruction based on multi-view point cloud acquisition and fusion combined with deep learning segmentation. Point clouds captured from primary and auxiliary viewpoints are aligned through coordinate transformation to obtain a more complete representation of the plant structure. After preprocessing using voxel filtering, statistical filtering, and radius filtering, a PointNet++ neural network is employed to separate tomato fruits from stems and leaves. Experimental results show that the proposed method achieves a stable Intersection over Union (IoU) of approximately 0.93 on the validation set. An octree-based tomato plant model is then established and deployed in the Robot Operating System (ROS). This provides an effective basis for obstacle avoidance and motion planning of harvesting robots.