Navigational context recognition for an autonomous robot in a simulated tree plantation

Transactions of the ASABE

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1579-1588

  Khot, Lav Ramchandra ^a   Tang, Lie ^a   Blackmore, Simon ^b   Nørremark, Michael ^c  

^a Iowa State University of Science and Technology   (United States)

^b Unibots Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Autoregressive model; Extended Kalman filter; Robot navigation; Robotic weeding; Sensor fusion; Tree plantation nursery

Indexed keywords

AUTOREGRESSIVE MODEL; ROBOT NAVIGATION; ROBOTIC WEEDING; TREE PLANTATION NURSERY;

AGRICULTURE; KALMAN FILTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOBILE ROBOTS; SENSOR DATA FUSION;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ALGORITHM; ESTIMATION METHOD; KALMAN FILTER; LASER; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PLANTATION; REAL TIME; SENSOR; SIMULATION; TREE;

NURSERIES; PLANTATIONS; ROBOTS; WEEDS;

EID: 33845636074     PISSN: 21510032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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