Path planning for in-field navigation-aiding of service units

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 80-90

  Bochtis, D D ^a   Sorensen C G ^a   Vougioukas, S G ^b  

^a DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Denmark)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Automatic guidance; Automation; Field logistics; Operations management; Robotics

Indexed keywords

ACTION SPACES; ADVERSE EFFECT; AGRICULTURAL FIELDS; ALGORITHMIC APPROACH; AUTOMATIC GUIDANCE; COMPUTATIONAL REQUIREMENTS; DISCRETE TRANSITIONS; FIELD EFFICIENCY; FIELD LOGISTICS; GRAPH SEARCH ALGORITHM; GRID CELLS; GRID STATE; HEAVY MACHINES; IN-FIELD; MACHINERY SYSTEMS; NAVIGATION TOOLS; OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT; OPTIMAL PATHS; OPTIMAL PLANNING; PATH GENERATION; PATH-PLANNING; SERVICE UNITS; SIMULATED EXPERIMENTS; WHOLE SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHMS; MACHINERY; MOTION PLANNING; NAVIGATION; OPTIMIZATION; TRACTORS (AGRICULTURAL); UNLOADING;

ROBOTICS;

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY; AUTOMATION; NAVIGATION AID; OPTIMIZATION; PLANNING METHOD; PRODUCTIVITY; ROBOTICS;

EID: 77956928794     PISSN: 01681699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2010.06.008     Document Type: Article

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