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Development of an Inexpensive Autonomous Guidance System

Published by the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, St. Joseph, Michigan www.asabe.org

Citation:  Paper number  051139,  2005 ASAE Annual Meeting . (doi: 10.13031/2013.19794) @2005
Authors:   Randy R. Price, Goutam Nistala
Keywords:   Guidance, autonomous, automatic guidance, PDA, GPS, ATV, soil sampler

A low cost guidance system is being developed for small agricultural vehicles (such as allterrain vehicles ATVs) to allow autonomous operation and automated soil sampling. The system uses a PDA, slot card GPS, microcontroller, and various actuators to provide autonomous operation of the ATV. Advantages of the system are that fields can quickly be reduced to sampling points and then sampled automatically.

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