Previous Research
Unmanned Aerial Systems Project for Precision Agriculture and High Throughput Field Phenotyping
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Development of a new method for improving UAV based plant height estimates with multi-level Ground Control Point (GCP) methods to maximize the reliability of the data in both crop improvement and production optimization.
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Development of an autonomous GCP system including a wireless network for position-data collection and communication with an UAV
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Development of an autonomous mobile GCP for the purposes of improving UAV-based agricultural data collection efficiency and georeferencing, radiometric, height, and temperature calibration accuracies.
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Development of a method for thermal data calibration to demonstrate the possibility of combining UAV-based thermal remote sensing with temperature-controlled ground references for calibrated crop temperature measurements.
Path Planning & Tracking and Task Mapping Technologies for Unmanned Agricultural Operations
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Development of an improved path-tracking controller that reduces the lateral deviations of path tracking by providing steering control robust to slippage in paddy fields.
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Development of a 3D tractor-driving simulator for the development of path generation algorithms for various agricultural operations, i.e., tillage, seeding, spraying, and harvesting, and path tracking algorithms.
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Development of a low-cost GPS/INS integrated system that uses data collected from a triangle-shaped
