An autonomous excavator with vision-based track-slippage control

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 67-84

  Saeedi, Parvaneh ^a   Lawrence, Peter D ^a   Lowe, David G ^a   Jacobsen, Poul ^a   Kusalovic, Dejan ^b   Ardron, Kevin ^c   Sorensen, Paul H ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^c Jastram Engineering Ltd   (Canada)

^d CREARE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Excavator control; Motor control; Path planner; Robot vision; Track slippage; Trajectory control; Vehicle position sensing; Vision based trajectory estimation; Visual motion control

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER VISION; CONTROL EQUIPMENT; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; EXCAVATORS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FUZZY SETS; MOBILE ROBOTS; MOTION PLANNING; VELOCITY;

EXCAVATOR CONTROL; MOTOR CONTROL; TRACK SLIPPAGE; TRAJECTORY CONTROL; VEHICLE POSITION SENSING; VISON BASED TRAJECTORY ESTIMATION; VISUAL MOTION CONTROL;

MOTION CONTROL;

EID: 12344285122     PISSN: 10636536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCST.2004.838551     Document Type: Article

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