Tractor platooning system on sloping terrain at low speed

Transactions of the ASABE

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1385-1393

  Zhu, Z ^b   Takeda, J ^a   Xie, B ^b   Song, Z ^b   Torisu, R ^a   Mao, E ^b  

^a IWATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Fuzzy controller; Mobile robots; Path creation; Path tracking control; Sloping terrain; Tractor platooning

Indexed keywords

FUZZY CONTROLLER; PATH CREATION; PATH-TRACKING CONTROL; SLOPING TERRAIN; TRACTOR PLATOONING;

CONTROLLERS; MOBILE ROBOTS; NAVIGATION; TRACTORS (TRUCK);

TRACTORS (AGRICULTURAL);

AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT; AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY; FIELD METHOD; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; MOBILE COMMUNICATION; PATH ANALYSIS; POSITIONING;

EID: 69549109904     PISSN: 21510032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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