Design and control of precision drop-on-demand herbicide application in agricultural robotics

2014 13th International Conference on Control Automation Robotics and Vision, ICARCV 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1689-1694

  Urdal, Frode ^a,b   Utstumo, Trygve ^a,b   Vatne, Jan Kare ^b   Ellingsen, Simen Andreas Adnoy ^a   Gravdahl, Jan Tommy ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b Adigo AS   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; COMPUTER VISION; DESIGN; DIMENSIONAL STABILITY; DROPS; HERBICIDES; SCHOTTKY BARRIER DIODES; SOLENOID VALVES; SOLENOIDS; SPRAY NOZZLES; WEED CONTROL;

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTICS; DESIGN AND CONTROL; DROPLET DISPENSING; ELECTRONICS DESIGN; HERBICIDE APPLICATION; INDIVIDUAL DROPLETS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; PRECISION AGRICULTURE;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 84949925574     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICARCV.2014.7064570     Document Type: Conference Paper

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