Mechatronic description of a laser autoguided vehicle for greenhouse operations

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 769-784

  Sánchez Hermosilla, Julián ^a   González, Ramón ^a   Rodríguez, Francisco ^a   Donaire, Julián G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALMERÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Agricultural robot; Autonomous vehicle navigation; Computer vision; Greenhouse

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOT; AUTOGUIDED VEHICLES; AUTONOMOUS CONTROL; AUTONOMOUS NAVIGATION; AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE NAVIGATION; METALLIC PIPES; PHYSICAL EXPERIMENTS; VEHICLE DEVELOPMENT;

COMPUTER VISION; CROPS; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; ROBOTS; SOLID WASTES; VEHICLES;

GREENHOUSES;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASER; LIGHT; ROBOTICS; SPAIN;

AGRICULTURE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASERS; LIGHT; ROBOTICS; SPAIN;

EID: 84872816473     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s130100769     Document Type: Article

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