Programme
The importance of 3D-position sensors for the navigation of machinery on construction sites of roads, tunnels, railways, and airports has increased over the last years and the market is still growing. Also in the field of agriculture GPS-based applications such as machine guidance, parallel tracking and yield mapping are introduced. After the 1st conference was successfully held at ETH Zürich in 2008, researchers, academics, users, system and service providers are now invited to participate in the 2nd International Conference on Machine Control & Guidance and thus to initiate a technical and scientific discussion, to interchange know-how, to bond synergies between the different applications and to boost research activities in this highly interesting field.
The following topics will be discussed:
Kinematic Measurement & Sensor Technology
- GNSS
- DGPS Services
- Tracking Total Stations
- Additional Sensors (Slope- and Orientation Sensors, INS, Gyro, ...)
- Calibration
- Sensor Fusion
Agriculture Applications (State of the Art, Trends)
- Precision Farming
- Yield Mapping
- Automatic Steering Systems
- Field Robotics
Standardisation
- Interface / Protocol / Communication 3DSensor-Machine
- Rideability
Data Processing /Data Flow
- Acquisition
- Handling
- Geo-Referencing
- Verification / As-Built
- Quality Management
Control Process and Algorithm
- Filtering
- Real-Time Control
- Latency-System Reaction
- Learning Control
- Control Architectures
3D-Construction Applications (State of the Art, Trends)
- Airports, Tunnels, Railways, Highways
- New Road and Maintenance Jobs
- Control and Guidance Systems for Graders,
Dozers, Pavers, Profilers, Excavators, Rollers
- Network Jobsite
Field and Soil
- Field Traffic and Path Planning
- Mapping of Field and Crop Features
- Field and Greenhouse Robots
- Autonomous Systems
- Soil Sensing and Mapping of Soil Characteristics
