New trends in robotics for agriculture: Integration and assessment of a real fleet of robots

The Scientific World Journal

Volumn 2014, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Emmi, Luis ^a   Gonzalez De Soto, Mariano ^a   Pajares, Gonzalo ^b   Gonzalez De Santos, Pablo ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR AUTOMATION AND ROBOTICS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERTILIZER; HERBICIDE; PESTICIDE;

ACTUATOR; AGRICULTURAL SYSTEM; AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; BOOM SPRAYER; COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL; COMPUTER; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRONICS; FARMING SYSTEM; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; GENERAL DEVICE; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; MACHINE; MECHANICAL THERMAL MACHINE; PESTICIDE SPRAYING; RELIABILITY; ROBOTICS; SENSOR; WEED CONTROL; WEED DETECTION SYSTEM; ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DEVICES;

AGRICULTURE; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ROBOTICS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84899441301     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1537744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2014/404059     Document Type: Article

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