Side-to-side 3D coverage path planning approach for agricultural robots to minimize skip/overlap areas between swaths

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 76, Issue , 2016, Pages 36-45

  Hameed, I A ^a   La Cour Harbo, A ^b   Osen, O L ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Area coverage planning; Coverage efficiency; Optimization; Robotics; Side to side 3D coverage planning

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; AGRICULTURE; ALGORITHMS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FORESTRY; LANDFORMS; OPTIMIZATION; PLANNING; ROBOT PROGRAMMING; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; SURVEYING; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; TRACTORS (AGRICULTURAL);

3D COVERAGE; AREA COVERAGES; AUTONOMOUS TRACTORS; COVERAGE EFFICIENCIES; COVERAGE PATH PLANNING; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; GUIDANCE , NAVIGATION AND CONTROLS; NUMERICAL APPROACHES;

MOTION PLANNING;

EID: 84953357404     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2015.11.009     Document Type: Article

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