A practical obstacle detection system for autonomous orchard vehicles

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 3391-3398

  Freitas, Gustavo ^a   Hamner, Bradley ^b   Bergerman, Marcel ^b   Singh, Sanjiv ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3D POINT CLOUD; ACQUISITION COSTS; APPLE ORCHARDS; CLASSIFICATION AND CLUSTERING; HARDWARE COST; INERTIAL MEASUREMENT UNIT; LASER SCANNER; OBSTACLE DETECTION SYSTEM; PITTSBURGH; ROBOT NAVIGATION; SENSOR SUITE; STRETCH TEST; WALKING SPEED; WASHINGTON STATE; WHEEL ENCODERS;

BINS; COSTS; FORESTRY; FRUITS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; OBSTACLE DETECTORS; ROBOTS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; UNITS OF MEASUREMENT; VEHICLES;

ORCHARDS;

EID: 84872311320     PISSN: 21530858     EISSN: 21530866     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2012.6385638     Document Type: Conference Paper

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