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State <strong>of</strong> the art<br />

Figure 2.4 Clycloid trajectories <strong>of</strong> the Osnabrück hoe <strong>for</strong> a)<br />

rotational speed is equal to the <strong>for</strong>ward speed b)<br />

rotational speed is 1.25 times higher than the <strong>for</strong>ward<br />

speed c) rotational speed is 1.5 times higher than the<br />

<strong>for</strong>ward speed (Griepentrog 2007)<br />

The University <strong>of</strong> Wageningen in the Netherlands has also been developing an<br />

autonomous <strong>weed</strong>ing robot <strong>for</strong> sugar beets (Bakker et al. 2006). Until now they<br />

have developed the autonomous navigation <strong>of</strong> the vehicle along the rows in the<br />

sugar beet field. In the near future they plan to implement an intra-row <strong>weed</strong>ing<br />

<strong>system</strong> based on the previously presented <strong>mechanical</strong> device (Bontsema et al.<br />

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