This paper provides a review of path-tracking strategies used in autonomous agricultural vehicles, mainly from two aspects: vehicle model construction and the development improvement algorithms. Vehicle models are grouped into numerous types based on structural characteristics working conditions, including wheeled tractors, tracked rice transplanters, high clearance sprays, robots, tractor–trai...

This paper presents a simulation framework for evolution on uneven terrains for a wheeled mobile robot such as a synchronous drive robot. The framework lends itself as a tool capable of solving various problems, such as forward kinematic based evolution, inverse kinematic based evolution, path planning and trajectory tracking. This framework becomes particularly useful when we understand that t...

Articulated Wheeled Vehicles (AWVs) offer superior uneven terrain traversal capabilities by virtue of the superior reconfigurability within their articulated structure. However, this capability can be realized only at the price of increased actuation-based equilibration, oftentimes solely to support the gravitational loading. Hence, the simultaneous reduction of the overall actuation remains on...

Pump-jets have a relatively high propulsion efficiency at medium speed and in heavy-load conditions for wheeled amphibious vehicles. However, the geometry of vehicles is very special due to installation requirements pump-jet, which results an obvious resistance on wheels. In order reduce vehicle, characteristics wheels are studied. Regarding pump-jet-propelled its wheel wide range firstly analy...