00000cmm a22000004a 4500 UP-99796217611211919 Buklod 20140423130950.0 m go j cr cn |||aaaaa 101129s2011 xxk u | eng d 9781849964685 (eBook) 1849964688 (eBook) (iLib)UPD-00214608055 DML eng DMLUC TL 235.6 R68 2011eb Rovira Mâas, Francisco. Mechatronics and intelligent systems for off-road vehicles [electronic resource] Francisco Rovira Mâas, Qin Zhang, Alan C. Hansen. London Springer c2011. 1 online resource (viii, 277 p.) ill. (some col.) 1. Introduction -- 2. Off-road Vehicle Dynamics -- 3. Global Navigation Systems -- 4. Local Perception Systems -- 5. Three-dimensional Perception and Localization -- 6. Communication Systems for Off-road Intelligent Vehicles -- 7. Electrohydraulic Steering Control -- 8. Design of Intelligent Systems. IP-based subscription, access limited to within on-campus computer network. Access via Electronic Resources of the UPD University Library Website. Rapid developments in electronics over the past two decades have induced a move from purely mechanical vehicles to mechatronics design. Recent advances in computing, sensors, and information technology are pushing mobile equipment design to incorporate higher levels of automation under the novel concept of intelligent vehicles. Mechatronics and Intelligent Systems for Off-road Vehicles introduces this concept, and provides an overview of recent applications and future approaches within this field. Several case studies present real examples of vehicles designed to navigate in off-road environments typically encountered by agriculture, forestry, and construction machines. The examples analyzed describe and illustrate key features for agricultural robotics, such as automatic steering, safeguarding, mapping, and precision agriculture applications. The eight chapters include numerous figures, each designed to improve the reader?s comprehension of subjects such as: ? automatic steering systems; ? navigation systems; ? vehicle architecture; ? image processing and vision; and ? three-dimensional perception and localization. Mechatronics and Intelligent Systems for Off-road Vehicles will be of great interest to professional engineers and researchers in vehicle automation, robotics, and the application of artificial intelligence to mobile equipment; as well as to graduate students of mechanical, electrical, and agricultural engineering. Electronic reproduction. New York SpringerLink 2011. Available via World Wide Web through SpringerLink. Off-road vehicles Automatic control. Mechatronics. Engineering. Electronic books. Zhang, Qin 1956-. Hansen, Alan C. SpringerLink (Online service). Available for University of the Philippines Diliman via SpringerLink. Click here to access http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-84996-468-5 FO Monograph UPD DMLR Electronic Resource