Ambient awareness for agricultural robotic vehicles

Biosystems Engineering

Volumn 146, Issue , 2016, Pages 114-132

  Reina, Giulio ^a   Milella, Annalisa ^b   Rouveure, Raphaël ^c   Nielsen, Michael ^d   Worst, Rainer ^e   Blas, Morten R ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c CEMAGREF   (France)

^d DANISH TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^e FRAUNHOFER IAIS   (Germany)

^f CLAAS KGaA mbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Advanced perception systems; Agricultural robotics; Ambient awareness; Intelligent vehicles; Safe driving in crop fields

Indexed keywords

CROPS; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; OBSTACLE DETECTORS; OPTICAL RADAR; PRODUCTIVITY; ROBOTICS; SENSORY PERCEPTION;

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTICS; AMBIENT AWARENESS; AUTONOMOUS AGRICULTURAL VEHICLES; CROP FIELDS; ENVIRONMENTAL PERCEPTIONS; PERCEPTION SYSTEMS; PRODUCTIVITY AND COMPETITIVENESS; VARIABLE RATE APPLICATION;

VEHICLES;

EID: 84983580807     PISSN: 15375110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2015.12.010     Document Type: Article

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