Programme

27 May 2022 (times in EDT / GMT -4)

09.00 - 09.10

Welcome and opening remarks

09.10 - 09.40

Agricultural Robotics: dealing with the challenges of variation and occlusion

Dr. Gert Kootstra

09.45 - 10.15

Deep Generative Models for Agriculture

Prof. Ribana Roscher

Coffee break 10.25 - 10.45

10.45 - 11.15

Towards Autonomous Farm of the Future

Dr. Naveen Uppalapati

11.20 - 11.50

Manipulating UAVs for Task Completion and in situ Monitoring in Agriculture

Dr. Sierra Young

11.50 - 12.50

Poster session 1

  • Ege Gursoy, Akansel Cosgun, Dana Kulic and Andrea Cherubini - PICKBOT: Dual-arm Harvesting Robot

  • Halil Ibrahim Ugurlu, Huy Xuan Pham and Erdal Kayacan - AgroRL: End-to-end Path Planning of Air-Ground Multi-Robot Team for Green Digital Farming

  • Guoqiang Ren, Tao Lin, Yibin Ying, Liangjing Yang, Girish Chowdhary and K. C. Ting - Mobile Robotics Platform for Strawberry Inspection and Harvesting within Precision Indoor Farming Systems

  • Neeraj Chitre and Ekta Singla - Customized Design of Reconfigurable Robotic System for Vertical Farms

  • Riccardo Polvara, Sergi Molina and Kostantinos Tsiolis - Towards Agri-KITTI: a 4D Dataset for Phenotyping and Simultaneous Localization and Mapping in Agricultural Applications

  • Panagiotis Mavridis, Athanasios Mastrogeorgiou and Panagiotis Chatzakos - Mushroom Detection and Pose Estimation Using Instance Segmentation and Model Fitting

  • Jonathan Jaramillo, Justine Vanden Heuvel and Kirstin Petersen - Towards Low-cost, Vision-based Estimation of Yield and Crop Load in Vineyards

  • Chanyoung Ju, Jaehwi Seol and Hyoung Il Son - Decentralized Control of Field Robot Teams: Framework and Implementation

  • Lazaros Nalpantidis et al. - GALIRUMI project: Galileo-assisted robot to tackle the weed Rumex obtusifolius and increase the profitability and sustainability of dairy farming

  • Rakshith Vishwanatha, Jnaneshwar Das, Roberta Martin, Heather Throop, Wenlong Zhang and Reza Ehsani - Real-Time Semantic Mapping of Tree Topology Using Deep Learning and Multi-Sensor Factor Graph

  • Miranda Cravetz and Joseph Davidson - Slip Detection for Robotic Fruit Harvest

  • Yonghyun Park, Jaehwi Seol, Jeonghyeon Pak, Yuseung Jo and Hyoung Il Son - Human-centered Method of Harvesting Robot System: Gripper, Harvest Ordering, and Visual Servoing

  • Md Ahmed Al Muzaddid, Joseph Cloud, Noah Wood and William Beksi - Automating Infield High-Throughput Cotton Phenotyping

Lunch break 12.50 - 13.50

13.50 - 14.20

Collaboration and Self-Organisation of UAV Swarms for Precision Agriculture

Dr. Vito Trianni

14.25 - 14.55

Robotics and Robotic Vision for Precision Agriculture

Prof. Chris McCool

Coffee break 14.55 - 15.15

15.15 - 15.45

Perception for Autonomous Weeding Robots in Grasslands

Dr. Lazaros Nalpantidis

15.50 - 16.20

Monitoring Crop Biomass and N-uptake from Structural Data using UAVs

Dr. Georg Bareth

16.20 - 17.20

Poster session 2

  • Taeyeong Choi and Grzegorz Cielniak - Enhanced Self-supervised Representation Learning of Visual Anomalies in Soft Fruits with Domain Control

  • Kitae Kim, Aarya Deb and David Cappelleri - P-AgBot: In-Row & Under-Canopy Agricultural Robot for Monitoring and Physical Sampling

  • Giwan Lee and Ayoung Hong - Enhancing Crop Detection Performance through RandAugment

  • Sergi Molina, Grzegorz Cielniak and Marc Hanheide - UAV-assisted topological mapping for AGV navigation in vineyards

  • Hansen Hendra, Ryoichi Ishikawa, Yoshihiro Sato and Takeshi Oishi - Quadruped Robot Platform for Selective Pesticide Spraying

  • Natalie Pueyo Svoboda and Stavros Vougioukas - Evaluation of workspace partitioning for multiple linear robot arms harvesting a digitized orchard

  • Christian Wilms, Robert Johanson and Simone Frintrop - Localizing Small Apples in Complex Apple Orchard Environments

  • Javier Rodriguez-Sanchez and Changying Li - Automation of LiDAR data collection for in-field plant phenotyping

  • Nathan Wallace, Nicholas Harrison and Salah Sukkarieh - Resource-constrained intelligent sampling for field applications

17.20 - 17.45

Discussion of open challenges and closing remarks