Overview
Provides an overview of the recent applications within the field of mechatronics design in automated and intelligent vehicles
Anticipates future approaches to the study of mechatronics design in automated and intelligent vehicles
Contains numerous figures
Access this book
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
Table of contents (8 chapters)
Keywords
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Francisco Rovira Más is an associate professor at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain. After receiving his PhD in Agricultural Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he joined the Intelligent Vehicle Systems group of Deere and Company in Moline and Urbandale, USA, between 2003 and 2005. His research interests are autonomous vehicles; machine vision with special emphasis in stereoscopic vision; off-road equipment automation and controls; field robotics; and artificial intelligence.
Qin Zhang is a professor, senior scientist and senior automation engineer at Washington State University, Prosser, USA. He received his PhD in Agricultural Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests are automated and autonomous agricultural machinery technologies; intelligent agricultural machinery controls; on-machinery crop health sensing technologies; machinery-area network technologies; and agricultural infotronics technologies.
Alan C. Hansen is a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, USA. He received his PhD in Agricultural Engineering from the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. His research areas are diesel engine and tractor performace; biofuels and diesel engine combustion; simulation modeling of in-field grain handling systems; and machine vision.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mechatronics and Intelligent Systems for Off-road Vehicles
Authors: Francisco Rovira Más, Qin Zhang, Alan C. Hansen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84996-468-5
Publisher: Springer London
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London Limited 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-84996-467-8Published: 20 September 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-5709-0Published: 01 October 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-84996-468-5Published: 30 November 2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 277
Topics: Control, Robotics, Mechatronics, Automotive Engineering, Artificial Intelligence