Differential flatness-based formation following of a simulated autonomous small grain harvesting system

Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 933-941

  Hao, Y ^a   Laxton, B ^b   Benson, E R ^a   Agrawal, S K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b University of Delaware   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic control; Combine harvesters; Computer simulation; Farm machinery; Farm management; Model validation; Modeling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HARVESTERS; HARVESTING; ROBOTICS; VEHICLES;

GRAIN HARVESTING SYSTEM; ROBOTIC SIMULATION; SOFTWARE SIMULATION;

GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT);

HARVESTING;

MILETINAE;

EID: 4243190123     PISSN: 00012351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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