A vision based row-following system for agricultural field machinery

Mechatronics

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 251-269

  Åstrand, Björn ^a   Baerveldt, Albert Jan ^a  

^a HALMSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Agricultural robots; Crop row location; Hough transform; Row following; Vision guidance

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; CROPS; HOUGH TRANSFORMS; POSITION CONTROL; VISION; WEED CONTROL;

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; CROP-ROW LOCATION; ROW FOLLOWING; VISION GUIDANCE;

ROBOTICS;

AGRICULTURE; FARM CROPS; ROBOTS; VISION; WEED CONTROL;

EID: 12244301226     PISSN: 09574158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mechatronics.2004.05.005     Document Type: Article

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