A two-stage optimal motion planner for autonomous agricultural vehicles

Precision Agriculture

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 361-377

  Vougioukas, S ^a   Blackmore, S ^b   Nielsen, J ^b   Fountas, S ^b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Motion planning; Numerical; Optimization; Randomization

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY; ALGORITHM; OPTIMIZATION; TRANSPORT VEHICLE;

EID: 33750068846     PISSN: 13852256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11119-006-9022-9     Document Type: Article

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