Agricultural Robotics, Advantages and Disadvantages

Agricultural robotics, advantages and disadvantages to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results on all aspects of agricultural robotics, advantages and disadvantages. It also provides a premier interdisciplinary platform for researchers, practitioners and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, and concerns as well as practical challenges encountered and solutions adopted in the fields of agricultural robotics, advantages and disadvantages.

CONTENT

Economic, Social and Environmental Drivers

• Economic and Societal Factors
• Environmental Benefits
• Soils
• Water
• Pesticides
• Electrification of farm vehicles and implements
• Precision Agriculture
• Livestock and Aquaculture
• Robotics and autonomous systems for livestock
• Robotics and autonomous systems for aquaculture
• Disadvantaged Farms
• Non-Conventional Closed (‘Vertical’) Farming
• Food Manufacturing and Processing
• Ethical Issues

Robotic Agriculture Systems

• Robotic Platforms
• Mechatronics and electronics
• Locomotion
• Manipulators
• Sensing and Perception
• Localization and mapping
• Crop monitoring
• Robotic vision
• Planning and Coordination
• Manipulation
• Human-Robot Interaction
• Human-robot collaboration
• Safe human-robot interaction

TRAINING METHODOLOGY

The training methodology combines lectures, discussions, group exercises and illustrations. Participants will gain both theoretical and practical knowledge of the topics. The emphasis is on the practical application of the topics and as a result participant will go back to the workplace with both the ability and the confidence to apply the techniques learned to their duties.

DATE:

1ST BATCH: 24th – 26th Jan, 2022

2ND BATCH: 30th May – 1st June, 2022

3RD BATCH: 26th – 28th Sept, 2022