Toward elevated agrobotics: Development of a scaled-down prototype for visually guided date palm tree sprayer

Journal of Field Robotics

Volumn 26, Issue 6-7, 2009, Pages 572-590

  Shapiro, Amir ^a   Korkidi, Eran ^a   Demri, Amnon ^a   Ben Shahar, Ohad ^a   Riemer, Raziel ^a   Edan, Yael ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATED ERRORS; AGRICULTURAL OPERATIONS; CHEMICAL DISPOSAL; DATE PALM; DEADBANDS; EXPERIMENTAL SYSTEM; FIELD ROBOT; GUIDANCE SYSTEM; HIGH ALTITUDE; IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM; NEW APPROACHES; PROPORTIONAL CONTROLLER; SHORT DISTANCES; TRACKING ERRORS; TRACKING PERFORMANCE; TRACKING QUALITY; TRACKING SYSTEM;

EXPERIMENTS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; SPEED;

TARGET TRACKING;

EID: 68049084469     PISSN: 15564959     EISSN: 15564967     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rob.20299     Document Type: Article

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