IROS 2023

Workshop on Agricultural Robotics for a Sustainable Future

Location: Room 331 A/B/C Huntington Place, Detroit, USA

October 1st, 2023 (Full day workshop)

Accepted papers: link

Thank you everyone, for the great workshop!

Workshop Objectives:

Demand for food, feed, fiber, and fuel is rising due to an ever-growing world population. We are expected to nearly double the global crop yield by 2050 to meet the projected demands. Crop production using new technologies and AI will play a key role in meeting rising demands. At the same time, this needs to be achieved while improving environmental sustainability by reducing the usage of chemicals like herbicides and fertilizers and other stressed resources such as water or energy. In recent years, we have seen impressive advances in agricultural robotics aiming to address these challenges. Robots are used in challenging outdoor field environments and greenhouses for wide-ranging applications such as phenotyping and monitoring, targeted intervention, harvesting, weeding, cover crop planting, and much more. These exciting applications call for research innovation in robotic fields as well as close collaboration with crop scientists and industries.

This workshop focuses on recent developments in agricultural robotics and automation. The goal is to bring together researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas and methodologies for enabling robotic systems in agriculture. The workshop will provide an overview of the state-of-the-art through a series of invited and contributed sessions as well as opportunities for attendees to share their knowledge, develop new ideas, and foresee the field's future. For real-world applications, a focus will be strengthening the relationship between robotic systems and domain-specific knowledge from plant sciences and industry personnel.

- This workshop is endorsed by IEEE RAS TC Agricultural Robotics and Automation and IEEE RAS TC Soft Robotics

Important Dates

August 18, 2023

August 30, 2023

October 1, 2023

Workshop contribution submission deadline

Notifications of acceptance

Full-day workshop

Contact us

agrobotics.iros23@gmail.com

Award Winners

Advancement in Robotic Farm Technology:

1st prize: Lab2Field Transfer of Harvesting Robots using a Sensorized Physical Twin - Kai Junge, Josie Hughes

2nd prize: 3D Printed Soft Robotic System for Heterobaric Leaf Infiltration and Hydrogel Nanosensor - Mert Ilman et al.

3rd prize: Intermediate Results of a Multi-Spectral-Imaging-Based Ripeness and Malformed Classification on an Object- and Pixel-Basis Using Field Programmable Gate Arrays for an Autonomous Strawberry-Harvesting Robot - Tim Tiedemann et al.

Innovation in Precision Agriculture

1st prize: Fake it till you make it: generating NDVI from RGB UAV imagery in viticulture - Jurrian Doornbos et al.

2nd prize: DAVIS-Ag: A Synthetic Plant Dataset for Developing Domain-Inspired Active Vision in Agricultural Robots - Taeyeong Choi et al.

3rd prize: Multiple Plant Tracking for Robotized Spraying of Ground Plants - Byron S. Hernandez and Henry Medeiros

Congratulations to all prize winners!