ECMR 2023 Workshop on Robotics in Agriculture and Forestry

 Workshop Objectives and Information

With the world population projected to reach 9.6 billion by 2050, changes in agricultural and forest management practices using new technologies and artificial intelligence will play a key role in meeting rising food demands, biodiversity, and environmental sustainability. Recent years have seen impressive advances in the area of agricultural robotics: robots are increasingly being used in applications such as crop phenotyping, harvesting, biodiversity monitoring, weed control, fruit picking, targeted spraying of pesticides and fertilizers, and more. These exciting scenarios create new challenges for research and innovation in different robotic fields, including perception, motion planning, manipulation, learning, and decision-making, which must be tackled to improve the capabilities of autonomous systems in challenging environments. A key aspect of research problems in autonomy for agricultural robots is their interdisciplinary nature that spans both robotics and natural sciences.

This workshop focuses on recent advances in robotics and automation applied to agriculture and forestry. The objective is to bring together researchers and practitioners to share ideas and approaches enabling robotic systems in such contexts. The workshop will offer an overview of the state-of-the-art through a series of invited and contributed talks, and discussions among participants will be encouraged to exchange knowledge, brainstorm new ideas, and envision the future of this field. In particular, emphasis will be placed on fostering the link between robotic platforms and domain-specific knowledge from plant sciences for real-world applications.

Topics of Interest

• Topics of interest to this workshop include, but are not necessarily limited to:

• UAV-based remote sensing and crop monitoring

• Machine vision and deep learning for precision agriculture

• Mobile manipulation

• Sensing in precision agriculture

• Aerial and ground robotic platforms for agricultural applications

• Long-term autonomy and navigation

• Multi-robot coordination and applications

• Adaptive sampling and informative planning

Call for Contributions

We're inviting researchers to submit a 1 page poster (PDF file), including a 1 minute trailer video to present at the workshop.

Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecmr2023