A technical review on navigation systems of agricultural autonomous off-road vehicles

Journal of Terramechanics

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 211-232

  Mousazadeh, Hossein ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Autonomous; Kalman filter; Machine vision; Navigation; Robot

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; AGRICULTURE; COMPUTER VISION; FUZZY FILTERS; FUZZY LOGIC; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; KALMAN FILTERS; NAVIGATION; OFF ROAD VEHICLES; POPULATION STATISTICS; ROBOTS; VEHICLES; VISUAL SERVOING;

AGRICULTURAL OPERATIONS; AGRICULTURAL OUTPUT; AUTONOMOUS; AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES; CENTIMETER LEVELS; FUZZY LOGIC CONTROL; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; TECHNICAL REVIEWS;

NAVIGATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84876109128     PISSN: 00224898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jterra.2013.03.004     Document Type: Review

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