Fleets of robots for precision agriculture: A simulation environment

Industrial Robot

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 41-58

  Emmi, Luis ^a   Paredes Madrid, Leonel ^a   Ribeiro, Angela ^a   Pajares, Gonzalo ^b   Gonzalez De Santos, Pablo ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR AUTOMATION AND ROBOTICS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Autonomous robots; Crops; Fleet of robots; Precision agriculture; Robots; Simulation; Simulation environment; Weed management

Indexed keywords

3D SIMULATIONS; ADDED VALUES; AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES; COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS; CROP FIELDS; DESIGN AND APPLICATION; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; GRAPHICAL INTERFACE; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; SENSORS AND ACTUATORS; SIMULATION; SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIRTUAL WORLDS; WEED MANAGEMENT;

AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS; AGRICULTURE; CROPS; FLEET OPERATIONS; MACHINE DESIGN; MOBILE ROBOTS; ROBOTS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 84872101791     PISSN: 0143991X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01439911311294246     Document Type: Article

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