Machine Vision-Based Guidance System for an Agricultural Small-Grain Harvester

Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1255-1264

  Benson, E R ^a   Reid, J F ^b   Zhang, Q ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b DEERE AND COMPANY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic guidance; Automatic steering; Automation; Combine harvesters; Control; Controllers; Corn; Fuzzy logic; GPS; Harvesters; Harvesting; Image processing; Image processors; Machine vision

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; CROPS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HARVESTERS;

MACHINE VISION GUIDANCE SYSTEMS;

AGRICULTURE;

ALGORITHM; CONTROL SYSTEM; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; GPS; HARVESTING; IMAGE PROCESSING; NAVIGATION;

MILETINAE; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0242381901     PISSN: 00012351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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