Precision guidance of agricultural tractors for autonomous farming

2008 IEEE International Systems Conference Proceedings, SysCon 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 314-321

  Eaton, R ^a,b   Katupitiya, J ^a,c   Siew, K W ^a,c   Dang, K S ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunication

^c School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering

Author keywords

Autonomous agricultural vehicles; Precision agriculture; Precision farming

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CROPS; CULTIVATION; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; MACHINERY; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; TECHNOLOGY; TRACTORS (TRUCK);

AGRICULTURAL OPERATIONS; AGRICULTURAL TRACTORS; AUTONOMOUS AGRICULTURAL VEHICLES; CROP CULTIVATION; CULTURAL SHIFTS; DATA SETS; FARMING SYSTEMS; GLOBAL COMPETITION; OPTIMAL PERFORMANCES; PATH TRACKING; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; PRECISION FARMING; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; SUB SYSTEMS; SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES; SYSTEMS CONFERENCE;

TRACTORS (AGRICULTURAL);

EID: 49049108777     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SYSTEMS.2008.4519026     Document Type: Conference Paper

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