Image-based particle filtering for navigation in a semi-structured agricultural environment

Biosystems Engineering

Volumn 121, Issue , 2014, Pages 85-95

  Hiremath, Santosh ^a   van Evert, Frits K ^a   Braak, Cajo ter ^a   Stein, Alfred ^b   van der Heijden, Gerie ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Agricultural robots; Particle filter; Row following; Vision based navigation

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); FEATURE EXTRACTION; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NAVIGATION; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

AGRICULTURAL ENVIRONMENTS; AGRICULTURAL ROBOT; AUTONOMOUS NAVIGATION; LIGHTING CONDITIONS; OUTDOOR ENVIRONMENT; PARTICLE FILTER; ROW FOLLOWING; VISION BASED NAVIGATION;

ROBOTS;

EID: 84896383009     PISSN: 15375110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2014.02.010     Document Type: Article

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