Practical path planning and obstacle avoidance for autonomous mowing

Proceedings of the 2006 Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, ACRA 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Nourani Vatani, Navid ^a,b   Bosse, Michael ^a   Roberts, Jonathan ^a   Dunbabin, Matthew ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAPIDLY-EXPLORING RANDOM TREES; REAL WORLD EXPERIMENT; ROBOTIC PLATFORMS; SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES; VIRTUAL FORCES;

FORESTRY; ROBOTICS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 84855605007     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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