Patent ID: 7652766

Claim:
A system for analyzing a cultivated hedgerow comprising: a machine having a motor and wheels and a working head, said motor being drivingly connected to said wheels so as to cause said machine to move along the cultivated hedgerows; and an artificial vision system mounted to said machine forwardly of said working head, said artificial vision system comprising: at least one light emitter positioned so as to be on one side of the cultivated hedgerow; at least one light receiver facing the emitter and positioned so as to be on an opposite side of the cultivated hedgerow, the light emitter directly transmitting light toward the light receiver; and a processing means connected to the light emitter and to the light receiver, said processing means for analyzing blockages of light occurring between the light emitter and the light receiver so as to produce an output relative to a structure of the cultivated hedgerow.