1st Agronomy Webinar

Development of Fruit Picking Robots

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the Webinar of development of fruit picking robots on Agronomy, which will take place on 4 October 2022. The webinar format is designed to facilitate the dissemination and discussion of advances in agronomy research and innovation in a post-pandemic environment, where travelling is likely to remain a challenge for many of us.

With the rapid increase in the world population, agriculture first moved on from manual operation to mechanization and is now moving toward the implementation of automated/robotic field operations to meet the growing demand for food. However, in contrast to industrial operations, agricultural field operations are complex, unstructured, ill defined, and subject to a high degree of variation in illumination, atmospheric, and landscape conditions in addition to the dynamic biological nature of both field and specialty crops. These challenges make it extremely difficult to implement automated/robotic solutions in agricultural field operations. However, with the advancements in many technological frontiers such as smart sensing, geographic information systems (GIS), machine vision, artificial intelligence, smart decision support systems, and advanced control system, the use of automated/robotic operations in agriculture is becoming a reality.

The programme of this Webinar of development of fruit picking robots on Agronomy will include 2 special presentations, which focus on important area of agronomy where research and innovation is essential to address the challenges described above (see list of presentations below). In addition to presentations, we will organize a discussion in each presentation to allow results to be presented and future challenges and research needs to be discussed:

1. Design considerations for automated mango harvest（Prof. Kerry Walsh）

2. Monash Apple Retrieving System (MARS)（A/Prof. Chao Chen）

We warmly invite our colleagues from across the world to be part of this exciting event.

Chao Chen, Chair of Webinar of development of fruit picking robots, Associate Professor, Monash University

Date: 4 October 2022

Time: 10:00am CEST | 4:00am EDT | 4:00pm CST Asia

Webinar ID: 853 6321 7446

Webinar Secretariat: agronomy.webinar@mdpi.com