Author :
Bonaccorso, Filippo ; Longo, Domenico ; Muscato, Giovanni
Author_Institution :
University of Catania - DIEEI, V.le A. Doria, 6 - 95125, Italy
Abstract :
This work presents the U-Go Robot, a rugged outdoor robotic vehicle. The main target for this new machine is to be a multifunctional system able to comply with different field of applications. The paper will mainly cover aspects related to agriculture and precision farming applications. The navigation algorithm mainly relays on a classical potential-field method. Moreover a new modular data fusion approach for incoming information from artificial vision to US-sonar sensors into this navigation algorithm is presented.
Keywords :
agricultural application; artificial vision; mobile-robot; potential field; sensor fusion; sonar sensors;
Conference_Titel :
World Automation Congress (WAC), 2012
Conference_Location :
Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-4497-5