Vision-only outdoor localization of two-wheel tractor for autonomous operation in agricultural fields

2011 6th International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems, ICIIS 2011 - Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 358-363

  Piyathilaka, Lasitha ^a   Munasinghe, Rohan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MORATUWA   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

agricultural vehicles; Kalman filtering; outdoor localization

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL FIELDS; AGRICULTURAL OPERATIONS; AGRICULTURAL VEHICLES; AUTONOMOUS OPERATIONS; AUTONOMOUS ROBOT; FIELD ROBOT; FIELD TEST; HIGH RESOLUTION; KALMAN-FILTERING; LOCALIZATION SYSTEM; LOW COSTS; OFF-THE-SHELF COMPONENTS; OUTDOOR LOCALIZATION; RANGE MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS; RANGE MEASUREMENTS; RELATIVE LOCALIZATION; VISION BASED; VISUAL ODOMETRY;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; KALMAN FILTERS; NAVIGATION; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; ROBOTS; TRACTORS (AGRICULTURAL); TRACTORS (TRUCK); WHEELS;

STEREO VISION;

EID: 80054937574     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIINFS.2011.6038094     Document Type: Conference Paper

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