A vision-guided mobile robot for precision agriculture

Precision Agriculture 2009 - Papers Presented at the 7th European Conference on Precision Agriculture, ECPA 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 623-630

  Ericson, S ^a   Astrand B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SKÖVDE   (Sweden)

^b HALMSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Row following; Visual odometry

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL FIELD; GROUND MOVEMENT; HEADING ANGLES; HEIGHT VARIATION; PRECISION AGRICULTURE; ROW FOLLOWING; SYSTEM USE; VISUAL ODOMETRY;

CAMERAS; CROPS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; HOUGH TRANSFORMS; MOBILE ROBOTS;

VISION;

EID: 84893371202     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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