Agricultural robots for field operations. Part 2: Operations and systems

Biosystems Engineering

Volumn 153, Issue , 2017, Pages 110-128

  Bechar, Avital ^a   Vigneault, Clément ^b  

^a VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Agricultural robots; Autonomous; Field operations; Robotics

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; AGRICULTURE; DECISION MAKING; MACHINE DESIGN; ROBOTICS; SENSOR DATA FUSION; SOCIAL ROBOTS;

AGRICULTURAL ENVIRONMENTS; AUTONOMOUS; FIELD OPERATION; INFORMATION ACQUISITION SYSTEM; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; SENSOR FUSION ALGORITHMS; SYSTEM PERFORMANCE MEASURES; UNSTRUCTURED ENVIRONMENTS;

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS;

EID: 85006847067     PISSN: 15375110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2016.11.004     Document Type: Article

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