Abstract

ASABE/ISO Standard 12188-2 provides test procedures for positioning and guidance systems in agricultural vehicles during straight and level travel. While the standard provides excellent descriptions of test procedures, it does not provide detail on methods to carry out the calculations necessary to calculate relative cross-track error (XTE), which is the primary error statistic used to judge accuracy. Given the travel speed and sampling constraints provided by the standard, the difference between a method based on nearest points or one based on path interpolation could hypothetically be as large as 25 cm. In this project, the standard was used to estimate the guidance accuracy of a relatively low-accuracy vehicle at 1.25 and 0.5 m s-1. At 1.25 m s-1, a basic nearest point calculation overestimated mean XTE by 0.8 cm, or 8.2%. The location sampling density was much higher with a 0.5 m s-1 travel speed, and mean XTE was only overestimated by 0.1 cm with the nearest point method. There are clearly situations where the calculation method will affect results, and the use of the more complicated methods explained in this article are suggested when using this standard.

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2016

Notes/Citation Information

Published in Transactions of the ASABE, v. 59, issue 6, p. 1609-1616.

© 2016 American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers

The copyright holder has granted the permission for posting the article here.

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://doi.org/10.13031/trans.59.11902

Funding Information

This work is supported by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Hatch Multistate project under 1001110.

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