Virtual fences for controlling cows

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2004, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 4429-4436

  Butler, Zack ^a   Corke, Peter ^b   Peterson, Ron ^a   Rus, Daniela ^a,c  

^a Dartmouth Department of Computer Science_Dartmouth College   (United States)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; MOTION PLANNING; OPTIMIZATION; PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANTS; ROBOTICS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ELECTRIC SHOCKS; NETWORKED PROGRAMMING; RANDOM MOTION; VIRTUAL FENCES;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 3042588567     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/robot.2004.1302415     Document Type: Conference Paper

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