Developing and evaluating an autonomous agricultural all-terrain vehicle for field experimental rollover simulations

• DOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2022.106735
• Publication Date: 2022-02-04T10:51:37Z
• Authors: Hsiao-Yang Chou; Farzaneh Khorsandi; Stavros G. Vougio...; Fadi A. Fathallah
• Keywords: Rollover (web design)

Utility All-Terrain Vehicles (ATVs) are commonly used on farms for agricultural activities such as carrying implements, applying fertilizers, and transportation. Among all ATV incidents farms, rollover crushes the leading cause of fatalities. Crush Protection Devices (CPDs) passive safety structures that potentially decrease severity injuries number deaths in incidents. However, there contradictions results previous studies regarding effectiveness CPDs protecting operator The should be evaluated experimentally with an autonomous ATV, allowing repeatable systematic tests. This study aims at developing three automatic control systems future simulations: Global Positioning System (GPS)- based navigation system allows steering, remote cruise module keeping consistent riding speeds, braking unmanned