Improving the trajectory tracking performance of autonomous orchard vehicles using wheel slip compensation

Biosystems Engineering

Volumn 146, Issue , 2016, Pages 149-164

  Bayar, Gokhan ^a,b,c   Bergerman, Marcel ^b   Konukseven, Erhan i ^a   Koku, Ahmet B ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ZONGULDAK KARAELMAS UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Autonomous orchard vehicle; Row following; Slippage estimation; Turning

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES; FORESTRY; ORCHARDS; RANGE FINDERS; TRAJECTORIES; TURNING; VEHICLE WHEELS;

ESTIMATION AND COMPENSATION; HIGH ACCURACY POSITIONING SYSTEM; INDIVIDUAL TREE; LASER SCANNING; MODEL BASED CONTROLS; ROW FOLLOWING; SYSTEM MODELING; TRAJECTORY TRACKING;

VEHICLE PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84983574246     PISSN: 15375110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2015.12.019     Document Type: Article

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