GPS data conditioning for enhancing reliability of automated off-road vehicles

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part D: Journal of Automobile Engineering

Volumn 227, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 521-535

  Rovira Más, Francisco ^a   Banerjee, Ratul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Global positioning; GPS error; GPS reliability; Horizontal dilution of precision; NMEA message; Precision agriculture

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURE; ERRORS; OFF ROAD VEHICLES; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; RELIABILITY; ROAD VEHICLES;

AGRICULTURAL ENVIRONMENTS; COORDINATE QUANTIZATION; GLOBAL POSITIONING; GPS ERRORS; HORIZONTAL DILUTION OF PRECISION; MARINE ELECTRONICS; NMEA MESSAGE; PRODUCTION SYSTEM;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

EID: 84880527615     PISSN: 09544070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0954407012454976     Document Type: Article

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