Comprehensive Automation for Specialty Crops: Year 1 results and lessons learned

Intelligent Service Robotics

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 245-262

  Singh, Sanjiv ^a   Bergerman, Marcel ^a   Cannons, Jillian ^b   Grocholsky, Benjamin ^a   Hamner, Bradley ^a   Holguin, German ^c   Hull, Larry ^d   Jones, Vincent ^e   Kantor, George ^a   Koselka, Harvey ^b   Li, Guiqin ^c   Owen, James ^f   Park, Johnny ^c   Shi, Wenfan ^a   Teza, James ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Vision Robotics   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Caliper measurement; Crop intelligence; Crop load estimation; Insect monitoring; Reconfigurable mobility; Specialty crops

Indexed keywords

CALIPER MEASUREMENT; CROP LOAD ESTIMATION; INSECT MONITORING; RE-CONFIGURABLE; SPECIALTY CROPS;

COST ACCOUNTING; EMPLOYMENT; MONITORING; WAGES;

CROPS;

EID: 77957334880     PISSN: 18612776     EISSN: 18612784     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11370-010-0074-3     Document Type: Article

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