Systematic design of an autonomous platform for robotic weeding

Journal of Terramechanics

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 63-73

  Bakker, Tijmen ^a   Asselt, Kees ^a   Bontsema, Jan ^a   Müller, Joachim ^a   Straten, Gerrit ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS PLATFORMS; DESIGN PROCEDURE; FIELD LEVEL; FOUR-WHEEL DRIVES; FOUR-WHEEL-STEERING; HAND WEEDING; LONG TERM; OPEN SOFTWARE; ORGANIC FARMING; RESEARCH VEHICLES; ROBOTIC WEEDING; STRUCTURED DESIGN; SYSTEMATIC DESIGNS; WEED DETECTION; WIDE SPECTRUM;

AGRICULTURE; DIESEL ENGINES; RESEARCH; ROBOTICS; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE; STEERING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE SONAR; WEED CONTROL; WHEELS;

DESIGN;

EID: 76949093639     PISSN: 00224898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jterra.2009.06.002     Document Type: Article

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