Evaluation of laser range-finder mapping for agricultural spraying vehicles

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 8069 LNAI, Issue , 2014, Pages 210-221

  Moreno, Francisco Angel ^a   Cielniak, Grzegorz ^b   Duckett, Tom ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

3d terrain reconstruction; Agri robotics; Outdoor mapping

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CONTROL SYSTEMS; LANDFORMS; MAPPING; RANGE FINDERS;

3-D TERRAINS; AGRI-ROBOTICS; AUTOMATIC CONTROLLERS; CURRENT GENERATION; LASER RANGE-FINDER; NEW APPLICATIONS; OUTDOOR MAPPING; SPRAYING PROCESS;

VEHICLES;

EID: 84904182471     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-43645-5_22     Document Type: Conference Paper

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