Row Crop Harvesting - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University
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Row Crop Harvesting
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The row crop harvesting project targeted three levels of automation:

  • A “cruise control” feature to automatically steer, drive and control the harvesting header, thereby allowing allow the operator to focus on other in-cab controls and harvest conditions.
  • A GPS-based “teach/playback” system to enable the harvester to “learn” a field and then repeat a given path, thereby allowing one operator to remotely control several harvesters.
  • A fully autonomous harvester using vision perception to completely harvest a field with no human supervision.
Displaying 5 Publications

2000
Methods for Cropline Following
Michael Happold
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-00-14, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2000
1999
The Demeter System for Automated Harvesting
Thomas Pilarski, Michael Happold, Henning Pangels, Mark Ollis, Kerien Fitzpatrick, and Anthony (Tony) Stentz
Conference Paper, Proceedings of ANS 8th International Topical Meeting on Robotics and Remote Systems, April, 1999
1997
Vision-Based Perception for an Autonomous Harvester
Mark Ollis and Anthony (Tony) Stentz
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vol. 3, pp. 1838 - 1844, September, 1997
Perception Algorithms for a Harvesting Robot
Mark Ollis
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-97-43, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 1997
1996
First Results in Vision-Based Crop Line Tracking
Mark Ollis and Anthony (Tony) Stentz
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 1, pp. 951 - 956, April, 1996

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  • Thomas Gordon