Design of a Prototype Autonomous Forestry Extraction Machine

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Design of a Prototype Autonomous Forestry Extraction Machine

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Executive Summary: The purpose of this project was to design and build a prototype autonomous forestry extraction vehicle and demonstrate the feasibility of integrating an autonomous control system on a forestry forwarder. Forestry in Australasia is a multi-billion-dollar industry and provides opportunities for autonomous vehicles with the potential to improve efficiency, productivity and worker safety and health. The use of autonomous vehicles to support industry processes is not a new conce...

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Date created

2018

Creator

Treanor J / Hartley A / Bell T / Chen X / Visser, Rien

URL

https://hdl.handle.net/10092/105784

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Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences / Forestry sciences / Engineering / Control engineering, mechatronics and robotics / Autonomous vehicle systems / Automotive engineering / Automotive mechatronics and autonomous systems

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