Earlier events

  • Webinar 56. July 24, 2020. Hyperspectral Super-resolution: A Tensor Factorization Approach. Charilaos Kanatsoulis from University of Minnesota, USA.
  • Webinar 55. March 27, 2020.  Artificial Intelligence, Cyber-Physical Systems and Robotics for Agriculture.  Manoj Karkee from Washington State University, USA.
  • Webinar 54. December 10, 2019. Deep Learning and SfM: a promising framework for agricultural automation – an example with grapes (and some apples). Thiago T. Santos from the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation, Embrapa.
  • Webinar 53. September 24 2019.  Artificial intelligence and hyperspectral imaging for high-throughput plant phenotyping. Ali Moghimi from the University of California, Davis.
  • Webinar 52. August 7 2019. Low-cost field imaging for plant phenotyping.  Ian Stavness from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada.
  • Webinar 51. July 24, 2019.Emerging Technological Transfer to Tackle Invasive Pest challenges in Sub-Sahara Africa: A computer vision Approach. Denis Pastory from Tokyo University of Agriculture, Japan.
  • Webinar 50. May 24, 2019. How can we integrate robots in agriculture crop production? David Reiser from University of Hohenheim, Germany.
  • Webinar 49. April 18, 2019. Sweeper : A Sweet-pepper Harvesting Robot. Jos Balendonck from Wageningen University & Research and Ruud Barth from Saia Agrobotics, the Netherlands.
  • Webinar 48. March 13, 2019.  VineScout Project: Enabling Big-data for Vineyards with Ground Robots. Francisco Rovira-Más, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain.
  • Webinar 47. December 11, 2018. Towards automated bloom intensity estimation: (un)supervised learning, datasets and annotation tool for fruit flower segmentation. Philipe Dias, Marquette University, Milwaukee, USA.
  • Webinar 46 : November 2, 2018. Comparing apples and oranges: Off‐road pedestrian detection on the National Robotics Engineering Center agricultural person‐detection dataset. Zachary Pezzementi and Trenton Tabor, National Robotics Engineering Center, Carnegie Mellon University, USA.
  • IEEE ICRA workshop: Robotic Vision and Action in Agriculture: the future of agri-food systems and its deployment to the real-world. Brisbane, Australia. May 2018.
  • IEEE/RSJ IROS workshop: Agricultural Robotics: learning from Industry 4.0 and moving into the future. Vancouver, Canada. September 2017.
  • Webinar 45, February 21st 2017,9 am
    US Eastern Time. Aerial Surveying for Precision Farming. João
    Valente, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain.
  • Webinar 44, January 2017. Third Annual AgRA TC Lightning Round.
  • Webinar 43,
    December 2016. Automated weed detection in crops using flying robots. Yasir Niaz Khan, Center for Robotics and Security,
    University of Central Punjab, Pakistan
  • Webinar 42,
    November  2016. Practical and Precise
    Perception for Vineyards. Mark Whitty, University of New South
    Wales, Australia.
  • Webinar 41,
    October 2016. Autonomous Driving in Agriculture Leading to Autonomous Worksite Solutions.
    John Reid, John Deere & Co., USA.
  • Webinar 40,
    August 2016. Data fusion in Agriculture:Hands-on Solutions for Farmers and Scientists.
    Peter Fröhlich, AgriCircle, Germany .
  • Webinar 39,
    July 2016. Improving autonomous orchard
    vehicle trajectory tracking performance via slippage compensation.
    Gokhan Bayar, Bulent Ecevit University, Turkey.
  • Published: The Handbook of
    Robotics, 2nd edition     Thanks to all AgRA
    members who contributed material and
    videos.
  • Webinar 38,
    June 2016. Heterogenous Robot-Assisted
    Measurement in Data Sparse Regions of Southern India. Joshua
    Peschel, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
  • Webinar 37,
    April 2016. 4D Crop Analysis for Plant Geometry Estimation in Precision Agriculture. Luca Carlone, MIT Laboratory for Information
    & Decision Systems, USA.
  • Webinar 36, March 2016. Bin-Dog: A Self-Propelled Platform for Bin
    Management in Orchards. Geoffrey Hollinger, Oregon State University, USA.
  • Webinar 35, February 2016. Autonomously Determining the Shape of Trees for
    Structural Phenotyping and Pruning. Amy Tabb, USDA Agricultural
    Research Service, USA.
  • Webinar 34, January 2016. Second
    Annual AgRA TC Lightning Round.
  • Webinar 33,
    December 2015. Robotic Apple
    Harvesting in Washington State. Joe Davidson and Abhisesh Silwal,
    Washington State University, USA.
  • Webinar 32,
    October 2015. Bringing Aerial
    Robots Closer to Crops: Sensing, Sampling, and Safety. Dr. Carrick
    Detweiler, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA.
  • IEEE/RSJ IROS workshop: on Agri-food Robotics. Hamburg, Germany. September 2017.
  • Webinar 31,
    September 2015. The BoniRob – An
    Autonomous Mobile Platform for Agricultural Applications. Slawomir
    Sander, Deepfield Robotics, Germany.
  • Webinar 30, August 2015. Irrigation automation based on modeling of
    dynamics of water stress soil and water stress plants. Marco Ivan
    Ramirez Sosa Moran, Instituto Tecnologico de Nuevo Leon &
    Universidad de Monterrey, Mexico.
  • Webinar 29,
    July 2015. Agricultural Robotics
    in Chile: Challenges and Solutions in The Andes Mountains.
    Fernando Auat Cheein, Federico Santa María Technical University
    (UTFSM), in Valparaíso and Miguel Torres-Torriti, Department of
    Electrical Engineering of the School of Engineering of the PUC,
    Chile.
  • Webinar 28,
    June 2015. The Hoeing Robot “Oz”.
    Gaëtan Séverac, Naïo Technologies, France.
  • Webinar 27,
    April 2015. Developing Robust
    Systems for Lettuce Thinning and Phenotyping. Jim Ostrowski, Blue
    River Technology, USA.
  • Webinar 26,
    March, 2015. Autonomous and
    Human-Robot Collaborative Systems for Field Operations in Orchards,
    Greenhouses, and Field Crops. Avital Bechar, Institute of
    Agricultural Engineering, ARO, Israel.
  • Webinar 25, February, 2015. Inspecting Large Irrigation Networks in the
    Indus Basin: Challenges and Prospects. Abubakr Muhammad, Lahore
    University of Management Sciences, Pakistan.
  • February 2-6 2015, Sydney, Australia.
    IEEE RAS Summer School in Agricultural Robotics.
  • Webinar 24,
    January, 2015. First Annual Lightning Round.
  • Webinar 23,
    December, 2014. ISOBus’s Past, Present, and Future Role in
    Agricultural Robotics and Automation. Benjamin Fernandez, UNED,
    Spain and AGCO Fendt, Germany.
  • Webinar 22,
    October, 2014. Automation Technology for Tomorrow’s Food
    Production. Satoshi Yamamoto, Visiting Faculty at CPAAS,
    Washington State University, USA.
  • Webinar 21,
    September, 2014. Agrofood Robotics and Automation: From Farm to Table. Rick van de Zedde,
    Wageningen University and Research Centre – Food & Biobased Research, Netherlands.
  • Webinar 20,
    August, 2014. PhenoBot: A Robot System for Phenotyping in the
    Greenhouse Using 3D Light-Field Technology. Gerrit Polder,
    Wageningen University and Research Centre, Netherlands.
  • Webinar 19, June, 2014. Three
    Million and Counting: How Real Robots are Revolutionizing Real
    Nurseries.Joe Jones, Founder and CTO, Harvest Automation, USA.
  • Webinar 18, May,  2014. Generating 3D Fruit Maps for Model-Based
    Assessment of Robotic Fruit Harvesting Efficienc. Stavros
    Vougioukas, University of California, Davis, USA.
  • June 1st, 2014, Hong-Kong, China:
    ICRA14 Workshop on
    Modelling, Estimation, Perception and Control of All Terrain Mobile
    Robots
  • Webinar 17, April 2014. Visual Yield Mapping in Orchards and
    Vineyards. Stephen Nuske, Carnegie Mellon University, USA.
  • Webinar 16,
    March 2014. Practical Application of Machine Vision in
    Australian Agricultural Research at NCEA. Cheryl McCarthy,
    University of Southern Queensland, National Centre for Engineering in Agriculture,
    Australia.
  • Webinar 15,
    February 2014. A Producer’s Experiences and Insights on New
    Orchard Technologies for the Tree Fruit Industry. Bruce
    Hollabaugh, Hollabaugh Bros.,Inc., USA.
  • Webinar 14,
    Januari 2014. A Safety Architecture for Autonomous Agricultural
    Vehicles. David Kohanbash,
    Carnegie Mellon University, USA.
  • Webinar 13, December 2013. Development of Control Architectures for
    Multi-Robot Agricultural Field Production Systems. Santosh Pitla,
    University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA.
  • Webinar 12, October 2013.
    Development of Sensing Technologies for Specialty Crops and
    Fiber. Changying “Charlie” Li, University of Georgia, USA.
  • Special Issue
    “Agricultural Robots”, Robotics – Open Access Journal by
    MDPI.
  • Webinar 11, September 2013.
    Guidance of Autonomous Tractor With Four Wheel Steering. Timo
    Oksanen, Aalto University, Finland.
  • Agricontrol 2013. The 4th IFAC Conference on Modelling and
    Control in Agriculture, Horticuture and Post Harvest Industry.
  • Webinar 10, July 2013.
    Optimized Coverage Path Planning and Headland Turning Trajectory
    Optimization for Auto-Steer Agricultural Field Equipment. Lie
    Tang, Iowa State University, USA.
  • Webinar 9, June 2013.
    Robust Pixel-Based Classification of Obstacles for Robotic
    Harvesting of Sweet-Pepper. Wouter Bac, Wageningen University
    and Research Centre – Business Unit Greenhouse Horticulture, The
    Netherlands.
  • Webinar 8, May 2013.
    Identification of Pruning Branches in Tall Spindle Apple Trees
    for Automated Pruning. Manoj Karkee Washington State University,
    USA.
  • Webinar 7, March 2013.
    Innovative Technologies for the Thinning of Fruit. Paul
    Heinemann
    Pennsylvania State University, USA.
  • Webinar 6,
    February 2013. Autonomous
    Systems for Broad Acre Farming. Jay Katupityia, University of New
    South Wales, Australia.
  • Webinar 5, November 2012: Robotic Leaf Probing Via Segmentation of Range Data
    Into Surface Patches. Babette Dellen, Institut de Robotica i Informatica Industrial, Spain.
  • IROS
    Workshop on Agricultural Robotics: Enabling Safe, Efficient, Affordable Robots for Food Production.
    Part of the
    IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, October 7-11, 2012, Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal.
  • International Conference on Advanced Mechatronic Systems
    (ICAMechS 2012)
    was held September 18-21, 2012 in Tokyo Japan. Mingcong Deng, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan, organized a
    Plenary Panel Discussion: New development on Agricultural Robotics and Automation, September 21, 2012.
  • Webinar 4, September 2012: An Autonomous Robot for Greenhouses and Vineyards:
    Localization and Navigation Methods. Giovanni Muscato, DIEEI Università degli Studi di Catania, Italy.
  • Webinar 3, August 2012: The Future of Precision Farming: Designing Systems for
    the Farm of Tomorrow. Simon Blackmore, Harper Adams University College.
  • Webinar 2, July 2012: Robotic Control of Broad-Leaved Weeds in Dairy Pastures
    and Soccer Fields. Frits K. van Evert, Wageningen University and Research Centre.
  • Webinar 1, May 2012:
    1. R Gator: An Unmanned Utility Vehicle for Off-Road
      Operations. Stewart Moorehead, John Deere.
    2. Autonomous Orchard Vehicles for Specialty Crops
      Production. Marcel Bergerman, CMU Robotics Institute.
  • IROS 2011
    was held September 25-30, 2011 in San Francisco, California.
  • Published:
    Special Issue on Agricultural Robotics,
    Springer Journal of Intelligent Service Robotics.
  • Published: Special Issue on Agricultural Robotics,
    Journal of Field Robotics, Volume 26, Numbers 6-7, pages
    501-608, June – July 2009, Eds. Denny Oetomo, John Billingsley,
    John F. Reid. Organised by the IEEE TC on Agricultural Robotics.
  • IEEE TC on Agricultural Robotics welcomed Dr John Reid as a co-chair in the committee.
  • Workshop on Agricultural Robotics: Autonomous Agriculture,
    May 13, 2008,
    was held in conjunction with the
    IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation,
    May 12-17, 2009, Kobe, Japan.
  • Organised Session on Agricultural Robotics at
    M2VIP 2008:
    the 15th International Conference on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice 2008, Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand,
    December 2-4, 2008.
  • The IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Agricultural Robotics organised a workshop titled
    “Towards autonomous agriculture of tomorrow” at
    ICRA 2008, held in Pasadena, California, on May 19-23, 2008.