Autonomous navigation using a robot platform in a sugar beet field

Biosystems Engineering

Volumn 109, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 357-368

  Bakker, Tijmen ^a   van Asselt, Kees ^a   Bontsema, Jan ^a   Müller, Joachim ^a   van Straten, Gerrit ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); CROPS; MAPPING; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; STATISTICS; SUGAR BEETS;

AUTONOMOUS NAVIGATION; DIFFERENTIAL GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEMS; POSITION COORDINATES; REAL TIME KINEMATIC; ROBOT PERFORMANCE; STANDARD DEVIATION; SUGAR BEET FIELDS; SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURE;

ROBOTS;

BETA VULGARIS SUBSP. VULGARIS;

EID: 79960274997     PISSN: 15375110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2011.05.001     Document Type: Article

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