Programme

31 August 2021 (times in CEST)

09.00 - 09.15

Welcome and opening remarks

09.15 - 09.45

Robotics and Phenotyping for Sustainable Crop Production

Prof. Cyrill Stachniss, University of Bonn

09.55 - 10.25

Collaboration and Self-Organisation of UAV Swarms for Precision Agriculture

Dr. Vito Trianni, ISTC-CNR

Coffee break 10.30 - 10.50

10.50 - 11.20

High-resolution in-field crop scanning

Prof. Sven Behnke, University of Bonn

11.30 - 12.00

Automated Phenotyping of Soft Fruit

Dr. Grzegorz Cielniak, University of Lincoln

12.10 - 12.40

Poster session 1

  • Arun Narenthiran Sivakumar, Sahil Modi, Mateus Valverde Gasparino, Che Ellis, Andres Eduardo Baquero Velasquez, Girish Chowdhary and Saurabh Gupta. Learned Visual Navigation for Under-Canopy Agricultural Robots

  • Benjamin Kisliuk and Christoph Tieben. Towards Long-Term Autonomous Crop Monitoring with a Mobile Robot

  • Jan Christoph Krause, Sebastian Röttgermann, Naeem Iqbal, Matthias Müter, Dominik Nieberg, Jaron Martinez, Mark Höllmann, André Berghaus, Stefan Menke, Jens Herbers, Michael Kreyenhagen, Stefan Stiene, Arno Ruckelshausen and Joachim Hertzberg. AI-TEST-FIELD - A Concept for Industrial-Grade Development of Semantic Environment Perception

  • Zuyuan Zhu, Marc Hanheide and Gautham Das. Collision Avoidance and Deadlock Resolution for Multi-robot Systems

Lunch break 12.40 - 13.50

13.50 - 14.20

Robotic Vision and Action: in agriculture

Prof. Chris McCool, University of Bonn

14.30 - 15.00

Towards Autonomous Systems in Precision Harvesting

Dr. Timo Korthals and Dr. Thilo Steckel, CLAAS Group

Coffee break 15.00 - 15.20

15.30 - 16.00

Agricultural Robotics: dealing with the challenges of variation and occlusion

Dr. Gert Kootstra, Wageningen University

16.00 - 16.30

Poster session 2

  • Piyush Pandey, Kitt Payn, Austin Heine and Sierra Young. Design of an Automated Controlled Pollination System for Loblolly Pine

  • Brent Van De Walker and Medhat Moussa. Evaluation of Robotic Grasp Planning Approaches for picking operations in a Vegetable Greenhouse

  • Shigemichi Matsuzaki, Jun Miura and Hiroaki Masuzawa. Semantic-aware plant traversability estimation in plant-rich environment for agricultural mobile robots

16.30 - 17.00

Discussion of open challenges and closing remarks