Variable field-of-view machine vision based row guidance of an agricultural robot

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Volumn 84, Issue , 2012, Pages 85-91

  Xue, Jinlin ^a   Zhang, Lei ^b   Grift, Tony E ^b  

^a NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

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

Author keywords

Agricultural robot; Autonomous guidance; Fuzzy logic control; Row crop guidance

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOT; AUTONOMOUS GUIDANCE; FIELD OF VIEWS; FUZZY LOGIC CONTROL; GUIDANCE ERROR; GUIDANCE PERFORMANCE; IMAGE-PROCESSING ALGORITHMS; MORPHOLOGICAL FEATURES; ROW CROP; RTK-GPS; VISION HARDWARE;

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; AGRICULTURE; FUZZY LOGIC; HARDWARE; NAVIGATION; ROBOTS; UNMANNED VEHICLES;

COMPUTER VISION;

ALGORITHM; ERROR ANALYSIS; FIELD; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; GPS; HARDWARE; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAIZE; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; ROBOTICS;

EID: 84860295203     PISSN: 01681699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2012.02.009     Document Type: Article

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