Field robotics in sports: Automatic generation of guidance lines for automatic grass cutting, striping and pitch marking of football playing fields

International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 113-121

  Hameed, Ibrahim A ^a   Sorrenson, Claus G ^a   Bochtis, Dionysis ^a   Green, Ole ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Field robotic; FIFA; GPS; Sports

Indexed keywords

AIR NAVIGATION; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; ROBOTICS;

ALGORITHMIC APPROACH; AUTOMATIC GENERATION; ECONOMIC FEASIBILITIES; FEDERATION INTERNATIONALE DE FOOTBALL ASSOCIATIONS; FIELD ROBOTICS; FIFA; HUMAN INTERVENTION; MANUAL OPERATIONS;

SPORTS;

EID: 79952380285     PISSN: 17298806     EISSN: 17298814     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5772/10534     Document Type: Article

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