IROS 2016 Special session on Autonomous Farming Technologies and Agricultural Robotics
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2016
Growth in world population, increasing urbanisation and changing consumption habits means demand for food production is predicted to increase dramatically over the coming decades. This increased demand in food production must be achieved despite challenges such as climate change, a limited supply of new arable land and difficulties in sourcing skilled farm labour. Robotics and automation are likely to play a key role in meeting these challenges over the coming decades. There has recently been substantial research effort to improve the capabilities of autonomous farming robots with advances in areas such as robust and accurate perception, navigation, and smart planning systems. This special session will focus on current advances in the area of autonomous farming. This session is supported by the IEEE Robotics & Automation Society Technical Committee on Agricultural Robotics and Automation (RAS TC-AgRA).
Papers are solicited on all areas directly related to these topics, including but not limited to:
- Robots for pruning, thinning, harvesting, mowing, spraying, and weed removal
- Aerial and ground robotic platforms for soil/crop monitoring, prediction, and decision making
- Aerial Robotics for Environmental and Agricultural applications
- Sensing in precision agriculture
- Fruit and flower detection and recognition
- Approaches to cost-effective sensing for day/night continuous operation
- Long-term autonomy and navigation in unstructured environments
- Manipulators and platforms for soil preparation, seeding, crop protection, and harvesting
- Adaptive sampling and informative data collection
- Adaptive technologies that manage plants, soil or animals according to as-sensed status
- Theoretical and empirical decision-oriented data-analysis techniques including machine learning
List of the accepted papers
(These papers will be included in IROS2016 proceedings.)
- Proof-of-Concept of a Robotic Apple Harvester
- Row Following in Pergola Structured Orchards
- Can You Pick a Broccoli? 3D-Vision Based Detection and Localisation of Broccoli Heads in the Field
- Development of An Autonomous Tomato Harvesting Robot with Rotational PluckingGripper
Organisers
Organiser: Inkyu Sa (ETHZ, Switzerland, )
Co-organiser: Ho Soek Ahn (U Auckland, New Zealand, )