AUTOMATIC GUIDANCE OF AGRICULTURAL VEHICLES BASED ON GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM

摘要

The need for automatic guidance of farm vehicles has been recognized for a considerable time. Automatic guidance of agricultural vehicles must have some effective method for determining their position in the working environment in order to operate appropriately. Recently, Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers have become available for world-wide and all-weather outdoor localization. This paper presents a review of automatic guidance of agricultural vehicles based on stand-off Global Positioning System (GPS) or the integration of GPS and dead-reckoning system.