Autonomous Greenhouse Mobile Robot Driving Strategies from System Integration Perspective: Review and Application

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1705-1716

  Ko, Min Hyuc ^a   Ryuh, Beom Sahng ^a   Kim, Kyoung Chul ^a   Suprem, Abhijit ^b   Mahalik, Nitaigour P ^b  

^a Chonbuk National University   (South Korea)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

4WS; Agricultural robot; autonomous driving; distributed control; front wheel steering (FWS); global algorithm; path pattern entities; rear wheel steering (RWS); system of systems

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ALGORITHMS; AMPHIBIOUS VEHICLES; AUTOMOBILE STEERING EQUIPMENT; COMPENSATION (PERSONNEL); DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; FOUR WHEEL STEERING; GREENHOUSES; MECHANICAL ACTUATORS; MOBILE PHONES; MOBILE ROBOTS; NAVIGATION; ROBOTS; STEERING; SYSTEM OF SYSTEMS; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; WAGES; WHEELS;

4WS; AGRICULTURAL ROBOT; AUTONOMOUS DRIVING; DISTRIBUTED CONTROL; FRONT-WHEEL STEERING; GLOBAL ALGORITHMS; PATH PATTERN ENTITIES; REAR WHEEL STEERING;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 85027917313     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2014.2350433     Document Type: Article

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