ICRA 2022 Workshop on Agricultural Robotics and Automation
27 May 2022 - 09.00 - 17.00 EDT / GMT -4 | Philadelphia Convention Center | Hybrid Event
Virtual workshop is free of charge
ICRA registration: https://www.icra2022.org/registration/registration-fees
Invited talk recordings: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLc1eN74aP8bDwluP4U2YsNglpuBbG2SxJ
Poster submissions: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ihCuMMNtkOK2A7l8t-EkoNikXdOO4-o6?usp=sharing
Thanks to all who participated in the workshop!
Contributions due: 1 May 2022 | Notifications of acceptance: 6 May 2022 | Full-day workshop: 27 May 2022
Workshop Objectives and Information
With the world population projected to reach 9.6 billion by 2050, changes in crop production using new technologies and artificial intelligence will play a key role in meeting rising food demands and improving 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 and monitoring, weed control, fruit picking, targeted spraying of pesticides and fertilisers, and more. These exciting scenarios incite new challenges for research and innovation in different robotic fields, including perception, motion planning and control, manipulation, learning, and decision-making, which must be tackled to improve the capabilities of autonomous systems in challenging farm environments, both in outdoor field and glasshouse conditions. A key aspect of research problems in autonomy for agricultural robots is their interdisciplinary nature that spans both robotics and agricultural sciences.
This workshop focuses on recent advances in agricultural robotics and automation. The objective is to bring together researchers and practitioners to share ideas and approaches enabling robotic systems in agriculture. 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
User interfaces and human-robot interaction for end users
Adaptive sampling and informative planning
Call for Contributions
We're inviting researchers to submit a 1 page poster (PDF file), including a 1-2 minute trailer video to present at the workshop.
Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icra2022agriws
- This workshop is endorsed by IEEE RAS TC Agricultural Robotics and Automation. -
Invited Speakers
Prof. Chris McCool
University of Bonn
Dr. Vito Trianni
ISTC-CNR
Dr. Gert Kootstra
Wageningen University
Dr. Sierra Young
Utah State University
Prof. Ribana Roscher
University of Bonn
Dr. Naveen Uppalapati
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Prof. Georg Bareth
University of Cologne
Dr. Lazaros Nalpantidis
Technical University of Denmark