Programme
Welcome & Opening
9:00 – 9:15
Opening remarks
Session 1: Farming
9:15 – 9:35
Prof. Stavros Vougioukas (University of California, Davis)
"Efficiency and Fairness Metrics for Scheduling Harvest-assist Robots"
9:35 – 9:55
Prof. Cyrill Stachniss (University of Bonn)
"Efficient Semantic Perception for Robotics in Agriculture"
9:55 – 10:15
Prof. Salah Sukkarieh (University of Sydney)
"Field Robotics in Grazing Livestock Agriculture"
10:15 – 10:35
Prof. Cindy Grimm (Oregon State University)
"Reach Out and Touch: Transitioning from Visual to Tactile Perception for Manipulation in Orchards"
10:35 – 11:00
Lightning talks I
Nikolaus Wagner (University of Lincoln): "Motion-Based Segmentation Utilising Oscillatory Plant Properties"
Alexander You (Oregon State University): "Branch orientation estimation using point tracking with a monocular camera"
Cindy Grimm (Oregon State University): "Design and Validation of a Closed Loop Apple Approach System"
Joseph R. Davidson (Oregon State University): "Suction cup characterization for a robotic apple picking gripper"
Yuseung Jo (Chonnam National University): "A Suction Cup-based Soft Robotic Gripper for Cucumber Harvesting: Design and Validation"
Pak Jeonghyeon (Chonnam National University): "Human-centered Approach for Efficient Cucumber Harvesting Robot System: Harvest Ordering, Visual Servoing, and End-effector"
Christian Geckeler (ETH Zurich): "Plant-EcoAIR: Scalable Airborne Detection of Plant Herbivory using Robotic Volatile Sampling"
11:00 – 11:30
Coffee Break I
Session 2: Processing / Distribution
11:30 – 11:50
Dr. Anamika Nigam (Ocado Technology)
"Applying Reliability Engineering to Advanced Robotics Systems"
11:50 – 12:10
Corentin Chauvin-Hameau (Crover)
"A robot for Grain Storage Monitoring"
12:10 – 12:30
Dr. Konrad Ahlin (Georgia Tech Research Institute)
"Virtual Reality and Robotics in Poultry Processing"
12:30 – 13:30
Lunch
Session 3: Cooking / Serving
13:30 – 13:50
Grzegorz Sochacki (University of Cambridge)
"Incremental Learning of Cookbook by Visual Recognition of Human-Chef Intention"
13:50 – 14:10
Dr. Jonathan Blutinger (Redefine Meat )
"Developing a Digital Chef"
14:10 – 14:30
Lightning talks II
Siddarth Jain (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories): "Vision Guided Food Assembly by Robot Teaching from Target Composition"
Matko Orsag (University of Zagreb): "Heterogeneous multi-robot system plating and serving desserts"
Tamás Haidegger (Óbuda University): "Force Controlled Smart Gripper for Robotic Soft Tissue Manipulation"
El Houssein Chouaib Harik (Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy): "Towards the replacement of fossil-fuel based machinery with a fleet of electrical vehicles"
Rajitha de Silva (University of Lincoln): "Leaving the Lines Behind: Vision-Based Crop Row Exit for Agricultural Robot Navigation"
Jose Cuaran (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): "Under-Canopy Dataset for Advancing Simultaneous Localization and Mapping in Agricultural Robotics"
Michael R. Chang (University of Bolzano): "Trust the Trees: Towards Visual-Inertial-GNSS Pose Graph Estimation with Tree Landmarks"
14:30 – 14:40
Break
Session 4: Legislation
14:40 – 15:00
Prof. Simon Pearson (University of Lincoln)
"The Future of Agricultural Robotics"
15:00 – 15:20
Prof. Andrea Bertolini (Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa)
"Bringing Innovation to the Market: Understanding the Regulatory Efforts at European Level and Their Possible Consequences for Robotics in Agriculture"
15:20 – 15:40
Dr. Rocco Limongelli (Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa)
"AI in the Hay: The Convergence of AI, Data Legislation, and Sustainability in Agriculture"
15:40 – 16:00
Coffee Break II
Linking & Conclusion
16:00 – 16:50
Panel Discussion
Prof. Cindy Grimm (Oregon State University)
Dr. Konrad Ahlin (Georgia Tech Research Institute)
Grzegorz Sochacki (University of Cambridge)
Dr. Rocco Limongelli (Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa)
16:50 – 17:00
Closing remarks