Evaluation of Automatically Steered Agricultural Vehicles

Francisco Rovira-Mas, Shufeng Han and John F. Reid

Abstract:	The popularization of automatic guidance systems for off-road vehicles, especially in agricultural environments, has led to a sudden affluence of commercial solutions. As a consequence, end users are often overwhelmed by the spread of possibilities commercially available, on top of the confusion provoked by the guidance accuracy advertised by manufacturers. Therefore, there is a need for a methodology that objectively quantifies the level of performance of any autosteering system, classifying different solutions according to their accuracy and reliability. This paper describes a method to evaluate the behavior of any automatically driven agricultural vehicle traveling along paths of any curvature. The proposed technique was verified in a self-propelled forage harvester, and field results are presented and compared with those found when the harvester was evaluated with conventional regression analysis.
Published in:	Proceedings of IEEE/ION PLANS 2008 May 6 - 8, 2008 Hyatt Regency Hotel Monterey, CA
Pages:	473 - 478
Cite this article:	Rovira-Mas, Francisco, Han, Shufeng, Reid, John F., "Evaluation of Automatically Steered Agricultural Vehicles," Proceedings of IEEE/ION PLANS 2008, Monterey, CA, May 2008, pp. 473-478. https://doi.org/10.1109/PLANS.2008.4570022
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