Improving orchard efficiency with autonomous utility vehicles

American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers Annual International Meeting 2010, ASABE 2010

Volumn 6, Issue , 2010, Pages 4670-4685

  Hamner, Bradley ^a   Singh, Sanjiv ^a   Bergerman, Marcel ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agricultural robot; Automatic steering; Autonomous navigation; Specialty crops

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE PARTS AND EQUIPMENT; CROPS; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; ENGINEERS; LAPTOP COMPUTERS; NAVIGATION; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; ORCHARDS; SCANNING; STEERING;

AGRICULTURAL ROBOT; AUTOMATIC STEERING; AUTONOMOUS NAVIGATION; AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES; CROP LOAD; FARM WORKERS; LASER RANGE SCANNERS; LASER SCANNER; MAINTENANCE TASKS; MEASURE DISTANCE; PRODUCTION COST; ROW FOLLOWING; SPECIALTY CROPS; STEERING ANGLES; UTILITY VEHICLES; WHEEL ENCODERS;

AUTOMOBILE STEERING EQUIPMENT;

EID: 78649706971     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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