Control system for tractor-platooning

Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 3173-3178

  Zhu, Zhongxiang ^a   Chen, Jun ^b   Takeda, Jun Ichi ^c   Torisu, Ryo ^c   Song, Zhenghe ^a   Mao, Enrong ^a  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c IWATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Farm mobile robots; Optimal controller; Path creation; Path tracking control; Tractor platooning

Indexed keywords

CURVE FITTING; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

FARM MOBILE ROBOTS; OPTIMAL CONTROLLER; PATH CREATION; PATH-TRACKING CONTROL; TRACTOR-PLATOONING;

CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

EID: 37049004169     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICMA.2007.4304069     Document Type: Conference Paper

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