PI/Co-PI
2023–2026, Enabling a Boll Orientation-Aware Cotton-Picking Robot in the Fields (Cotton Incorporated)
2023–2028, Collaborative Research: NRI: Perception-Aware Soft Robot Manipulation and Bipedal Locomotion for Fresh Market Caneberry Harvesting (USDA NIFA/NSF-NRI)
2024–2028, POTENTIALS (advancing sPectroscOpic TechniquEs for iN siTu soIl heALth assessmentS) (USDA NIFA/MSU)
2024–2028, PARTNERSHIP: Improving Crop Water Use Estimation with UAS-Based Models and Controlled Automated Temperature Reference Surfaces (USDA NIFA/TSU)
2025–2028, Developing an Automated Preparation Technology for Skewering Operations in Meat and Seafood Kebab Production (USDA NIFA/MSU)
2026–2027, Vision-Guided Plant Surgical Robotics for Precision Miniaturized Sensor Implantation in Maize (UGA IIPA)
PI/Co-PI
2023–2025, Internship Program Using Supercomputing Facilities (USDA ARS)
2023–2026, S3DTool: A Novel Satellite-Based Soil Sampling Design Tool For Site-Specific Management Using Historical Crop Spectral Variability (USDA NIFA)
2023–2028, Dynamic, Data-Driven, Sustainable, and Resilient Crop Production Systems for the Southeastern U.S. – Early Diagnosis of Nutrient Stresses in Crops Using UAV Hyperspectral Images (USDA ARS)
2024–2026, Developing High-Fidelity Agricultural Environments – Mississippi State University Autonomous Vehicle Simulator (AG-MAVS) (MAFES SRI) [GitHub]
2024–2028, DSFAS: CropVista: Building Agricultural Resilience with Satellite Constellation Products for U.S. Farmers (USDA NIFA)
2024–2028, Collaborative Research: RII FEC: Interdisciplinary Program of Advancing Climate Extreme Resilience in Soybean (NSF) [YouTube]
Co-PI
Remote Sensing Technology for Accurate, Precise, and Early Almond Yield Forecasting (Almond Board of CA)
Main Collaborator
2019–2020, Development of a UAV-based Canopy Profile Mapping Technique to Replace the Mobile Platform Lightbar (Almond Board of CA)
Main Collaborator
2014–2018, Shake and Catch Harvesting for Fresh Market Apples (USDA NIFA)
2017–2019, Advancing Precision Pollination Systems to Improve Yield Security (WA Tree Fruit Research Commission)
2018–2019, Smartphone-based Crop-load Estimation Tool (WA Grape and Wine Research Program)
2018–2021, Precise Mechanical Solution for Vineyard Shoot Thinning (WSDA-SCBG; WA Grape and Wine Research Program)
Participant
2016–2018, Unmanned Aerial Systems (UASs) for Mitigating Bird Damage in Blueberry Crops (WA Blueberry Commission)
2017, Apple Crop-load Estimation in a Block Fuji Orchard Using a Mobile Application
Intelligent Branch Training System Development for Trellis Trained Apple Trees
Robotic Apple Harvesting