Towards an open software platform for field robots in precision agriculture

Robotics

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 207-234

  Jensen, Kjeld ^a   Larsen, Morten ^b   Nielsen, Søren H ^a   Larsen, Leon B ^a   Olsen, Kent S ^a   Jørgensen, Rasmus N ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b Conpleks Innovation ^*  (Denmark)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Field robots; FroboMind; Precision agriculture; ROS

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921867402     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22186581     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/robotics3020207     Document Type: Article

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