A methodology for composing and coordinating primitive fuzzy behaviors to guide mobile agricultural robots

IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation, ICCA

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 280-285

  De Sousa, Rafael V ^a,b   Lopes, Wellington C ^b   Pereira, Robson R D ^b   Inamasu, Ricardo Y ^c   Porto, Arthur J V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation ^*  (Brazil)

^c EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COORDINATION REACTIONS; FUZZY INFERENCE; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

AGRICULTURAL ENVIRONMENTS; BEHAVIOR COORDINATION; DIFFERENT STAGES; EXPERIMENTAL ROBOTICS; GUIDANCE AND NAVIGATION; OPERATIONAL ABILITY; ROBOTIC ARCHITECTURES; ROBOTIC PLATFORMS;

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS;

EID: 84858953590     PISSN: 19483449     EISSN: 19483457     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCA.2011.6138057     Document Type: Conference Paper

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