Integrating Sensory/Actuation Systems in Agricultural Vehicles

Integrating Sensory/Actuation Systems in Agricultural Vehicles

In recent years, there have been major advances in the development of new and more powerful perception systems for agriculture, such as computer-vision and global positioning systems. Due to these advances, the automation of agricultural tasks has received an important stimulus, especially in the area of selective weed control where high precision is essential for the proper use of resources an...

Ground based sensing systems for autonomous agricultural vehicles

This paper examines ground based (as opposed to satellite based) sensing methods for vehicle position fixing. Sensors are considered in various categories, motion measurement (odometry, inertial), artificial landmarks (laser positioning, millimetre wave radar), and local feature detection (sonar, machine vision). Particular emphasis is paid to technologies which have proven successful beyond th...

Machine-Vision Systems Selection for Agricultural Vehicles: A Guide

Machine vision systems are becoming increasingly common onboard agricultural vehicles (autonomous and non-autonomous) for different tasks. This paper provides guidelines for selecting machine-vision systems for optimum performance, considering the adverse conditions on these outdoor environments with high variability on the illumination, irregular terrain conditions or different plant growth st...

Vision-Based Control in Driving Assistance of Agricultural Vehicles

This article presents a real-time control system for an agricultural mobile machine (vehicle) based on an on-board vision system using a single camera. This system has been designed in order to help human beings in repetitive and diicult tasks in the agricultural domain. The aim of the robotics application concerns the control of the vehicle with regard to the reap limit detected in image space...

Integrating Unmanned Aerial Vehicles into surveillance systems in complex maritime environments