DATE: A handheld co-robotic device for automated tuning of emitters to enable precision irrigation

IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering

Volumn 2016-November, Issue , 2016, Pages 922-927

  Gealy, David V ^a   McKinley, Stephen ^a   Guo, Menglong ^a   Miller, Lauren ^b   Vougioukas, Stavros ^c   Viers, Joshua ^d   Carpin, Stefano ^e   Goldberg, Ken ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e Embedded Systems and Automation Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRRIGATION; MACHINE DESIGN; POLYVINYL CHLORIDES; WATER RESOURCES; WATER SUPPLY;

AUTOMATED ADJUSTMENT; AUTOMATED DEVICE; AUTOMATED TUNING; EXISTING SYSTEMS; MECHATRONIC DESIGN; ORIENTATION ERROR; PASSIVE EMITTERS; PRECISION IRRIGATION;

AUTOMATION;

EID: 85000910583     PISSN: 21618070     EISSN: 21618089     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/COASE.2016.7743501     Document Type: Conference Paper

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