Stereovision-based lateral offset measurement for vehicle navigation in cultivated stubble fields

Biosystems Engineering

Volumn 109, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 258-265

  Wang, Qi ^a   Zhang, Qin ^a   Rovira Más, Francisco ^b   Tian, Lei ^c  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; AGRICULTURE; CAMERAS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; VEHICLES;

AGRICULTURAL VEHICLES; CONSECUTIVE FIELDS; FIELD VALIDATION TESTS; HEADING DIRECTIONS; MEASUREMENT DEVIATIONS; NAVIGATION ACCURACY; PRECISE MEASUREMENTS; VEHICLE NAVIGATION;

STEREO IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 79960251785     PISSN: 15375110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2011.04.006     Document Type: Article

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