AgriScout: AI-powered robot for precise detection of PVY-infected potato plants
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Abstract
The early detection of plant diseases is critical for ensuring optimal crop health and maximizing yield. This study presents an AI-driven autonomous robotic system, “AgriScout”, designed for the early identification and mapping of Potato Virus Y (PVY) infections in potato crops. The developed system integrates an electric field robot equipped with RGB cameras and a GPS-RTK module for precise image capture and geolocation of infected plants. The collected high-resolution images are transmitted to a cloud-based server, where a YOLO (You Only Look Once) deep learning model processes them to detect PVY-infected plants. The system generates an infestation map with accurate geospatial coordinates of affected areas, facilitating targeted intervention. Field trials were conducted in Prince Edward Island, Canada, to develop a labeled dataset comprising healthy and PVY-infected plants across different growth stages and environmental conditions. The YOLO model was trained and validated using this dataset, achieving a mean Average Precision (mAP@0.5) of 85%, an F1-score of 0.80, a Precision of 0.85, and a Recall of 0.76 during testing. The model demonstrated robust detection capabilities under varying foliage densities, effectively distinguishing infected plants with high accuracy. The results underscore the potential of “AgriScout” as a scalable, real-time disease detection solution for precision agriculture. By automating disease monitoring and reducing reliance on manual scouting, the system enhances farm productivity, minimizes yield losses, and supports sustainable disease management practices. The integration of robotics and AI in pathogen detection represents a significant advancement in agricultural automation, paving the way for intelligent, data-driven decision-making in modern farming systems. • AI robot detects PVY-infected potato plants with high accuracy. • Real-time geotagged disease maps generated using RTK-GPS. • Lab-validated YOLO model enables scalable field deployment.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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