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The Role Robotics Could Play in Future Food Production
An upcoming international conference on the latest advances in agricultural robotics will include a workshop that aims to bring together the academic and industrial communities.
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Computer scientists from the University of Lincoln are co-organizing an international workshop on the latest advances in agricultural robotics.
The 13th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS-13) will include a workshop that aims to bring together the academic and industrial communities to discuss recent advances for agriculture and horticulture. "The workshop will provide a forum to present the state-of-the-art technical solutions in agricultural robotics and new exciting robotics platforms, but also to encourage future collaborations between the participants," says Lincoln School of Computer Science's Grzegorz Cielniak.
The latest agricultural robotics technology can autonomously perform several different tasks, from monitoring soil and crop properties and harvesting fruit in orchards to mechanical weeders eliminating the need for herbicides to produce affordable, safer food. "Using teams of small specialized agricultural robots instead of the currently used heavy machinery can result in lower soil compaction leading to energy savings, but also in more robust systems in the case of technical failures," Cielniak notes.
The Lincoln Center for Autonomous Systems is working on a system of laser sensors to accurately control agricultural sprayers, among other projects. IAS-13 is scheduled for July 15-19, 2014, in Padova, Italy.
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