Toward Autonomous Vehicles and Machinery in Mill Yards of the Forest Industry: Technologies and Proposals for Autonomous Vehicle Operations

The use of autonomous systems on the wood processing sites forest industries can significantly increase safety, productivity, and efficiency by reducing number monotonous dangerous tasks conducted human labor utilizing heavy machinery. However, machines are challenging difficult to implement in mill yards environment because dynamic complex working environment, partly unstructured processes. inherent complexity handling storage is requiring significant expertise. Fast advancements sensor technologies, machine learning techniques, increases computational power enable progress automated operation framework algorithms development. This opens door introduce novel into this environment. With aim gaining a better understanding current issues facilitating optimal strategies for deploying high-level yard environments, study: (1) Utilized systematic literature review map technologies suitable adoption industry automation vehicles yards; (2) Summarizes discusses potential feasibility considered sensors systems, adaption strategy, machinery implementation challenges environment; (3) Proposes system that integrates multiple navigation material yards. study first its kind as comprehensive environments. Our aids identification follow-up research areas thus promotes industrial