Route planning for orchard operations

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Volumn 113, Issue , 2015, Pages 51-60

  Bochtis, D ^a   Griepentrog, H W ^b   Vougioukas, S ^c   Busato, P ^d   Berruto, R ^d   Zhou, K ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Autonomous vehicle; Mission planning; Operations management

Indexed keywords

FARMS; MACHINERY; METAL DRAWING; ORCHARDS;

AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES; MISSION PLANNING; OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCIES; OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS; OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT; PLANNING METHOD; TIME INDEPENDENTS; WORKING DISTANCES;

ROBOT PROGRAMMING;

ARABLE FARMING; OPTIMIZATION; ORCHARD; ROBOTICS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TRAVEL TIME;

EID: 84922740794     PISSN: 01681699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2014.12.024     Document Type: Article

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