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Presentations by AgriFoRwArdS Students
| Presentation title | Event | Dates | Presenter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Computer Vision Pipeline for Automated Antarctic Krill Analysis | British Machine Vision Association Conference (BMVC) 2023 | 19/11/2023 to 25/11/2023 | Mazvydas Gudelis |
| Human detection and body posture recognition for human-robot collaborative applications | 4th IEEE UK&I Young Professionals Postgraduate STEM Research Symposium | 18/11/2023 | Prabuddhi Wariyapperuma |
| Simplifying Tone Curves for Image Enhancement | 31st Color and Imaging Conference 2023 | 13/11/2023 to 17/11/2023 | James Bennett |
| Evaluating the Use of Interpretable Quantized Convolutional Neural Networks for Resource-Constrained Deployment | International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (KDIR) 2023 | 13/11/2023 to 15/11/2023 | Harry Rogers |
| Static Shape Control of Soft Continuum Robots using Deep Visual Inverse Kinematics Models | International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2023 | 01/10/2023 to 05/10/2023 | Elijah Almanzor |
| Controller-based Reinforcement Learning in Robotics Manipulation | Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems Annual (TAROS) Conference 2023 | 13/09/2023 to 15/09/2023 | Yi Zhang |
| Automatic Aphid Counting Based on The Yellow Water Pan Trap Imagery and Deep Learning | Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems Annual (TAROS) Conference 2023 | 13/09/2023 to 15/09/2023 | Xumin Gao |
| Combining Visual and Tactile Sensation to Enhance Physical Robot Interactions | Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems Annual (TAROS) Conference 2023 | 13/09/2023 to 15/09/2023 | Willow Mandil |
| Precision Agriculture: Controlling Crop Growth | Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems Annual (TAROS) Conference 2023 | 13/09/2023 to 15/09/2023 | Will Rohde |
| Making MACARONS | Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems Annual (TAROS) Conference 2023 | 13/09/2023 to 15/09/2023 | Vijja Wichitwechkarn |
| Smart Parking System Using Heuristic Optimization For Autonomous Transportation Robots In Agriculture | Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems Annual (TAROS) Conference 2023 | 13/09/2023 to 15/09/2023 | Roopika Ravikanna |
| Integrating Epidemiological Modelling with Reinforcement Learning for Effective Controls of Invasive Plant Disease | Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems Annual (TAROS) Conference 2023 | 13/09/2023 to 15/09/2023 | Rachel Trimble |
| Human detection and body posture recognition for human-robot collaborative applications | Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems Annual (TAROS) Conference 2023 | 13/09/2023 to 15/09/2023 | Prabuddhi Wariyapperuma |
| Optimising Immersive Assistance Systems for Managing Automated Manufacturing Operations with Limited Resources | Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems Annual (TAROS) Conference 2023 | 13/09/2023 to 15/09/2023 | Paul David Zuercher |
| Deep Learning for Antarctic Krill staging and morphology analysis from high resolution image pairs | Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems Annual (TAROS) Conference 2023 | 13/09/2023 to 15/09/2023 | Mazvydas Gudelis |
| Neutral Geometry Processing for 3D Natural Structure Modelling | Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems Annual (TAROS) Conference 2023023 | 13/09/2023 to 15/09/2023 | Kyle Fogarty |
| Statistical shape representations for temporal registration of plant components in 3D | Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems Annual (TAROS) Conference 2023 | 13/09/2023 to 15/09/2023 | Karoline Heiwolt |
| Spatially-Decentralised Coordination for Agricultural Fleets | Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems Annual (TAROS) Conference 2023 | 13/09/2023 to 15/09/2023 | James Heselden |
| Simplifying Tone Curves for Image Enhancement | Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems Annual (TAROS) Conference 2023 | 13/09/2023 to 15/09/2023 | James Bennett |
| Uncertainty-Guided Multi-Agent Continual Learning for Food Supply-Chain Knowledge Graph Completion | Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems Annual (TAROS) Conference 2023 | 13/09/2023 to 15/09/2023 | Jack Foster |
| Fabrication of bioreactor module, inline bacterial growth sensing and the inclusion of µcosminline sensing | Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems Annual (TAROS) Conference 2023 | 13/09/2023 to 15/09/2023 | Jack Bradley |
| Closing the Loop on Precision Spraying | Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems Annual (TAROS) Conference 2023 | 13/09/2023 to 15/09/2023 | Harry Rogers |
| Improving Robotic Taste Performance in Classification Task with Mastication | Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems Annual (TAROS) Conference 2023 | 13/09/2023 to 15/09/2023 | Grzegorz Sochacki |
| Iterative Particle Swarm Optimisation –Hyperparameter Tuning | Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems Annual (TAROS) Conference 2023 | 13/09/2023 to 15/09/2023 | Grey Churchill |
| Designing Food Supply Chain for Nutrient Delivery and Traceability | Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems Annual (TAROS) Conference 2023 | 13/09/2023 to 15/09/2023 | Garry Clawson |
| Robotic Waypoint Coverage Under Soft Parallel Path Constraints | Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems Annual (TAROS) Conference 2023 | 13/09/2023 to 15/09/2023 | Haris Matsantonis |
| Robotic Waypoint Coverage Under Soft Parallel Path Constraints | Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems Annual (TAROS) Conference 2023 | 13/09/2023 to 15/09/2023 | Calvin John |
| Real-time vision-based spot spraying development for high efficiency and precision weed management | Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems Annual (TAROS) Conference 2023 | 13/09/2023 to 15/09/2023 | Callum Lennox |
| Deciding to Implement Emerging Technologies: the Use of Digital Technologies in Planning the Implementation of Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS) in Food Manufacturing Firms | Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems Annual (TAROS) Conference 2023 | 13/09/2023 to 15/09/2023 | Bethan Moncur |
| Enhancing Instance Segmentation with Multitask Learning: Integrating Mask R-CNN with Self Supervise Tasks | Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems Annual (TAROS) Conference 2023 | 13/09/2023 to 15/09/2023 | Bradley Hurst |
| Scaling the Spheres: Exploring the Impact of Physical Size on the Performance of Spherical Robots in Agricultural Settings | Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems Annual (TAROS) Conference 2023 | 13/09/2023 to 15/09/2023 | Andrew Simpson |
| Addressing geographical domain shift for quantification of UK road verge biodiversity | Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems Annual (TAROS) Conference 2023 | 13/09/2023 to 15/09/2023 | Andy Perrett |
| Intelligent Automation For Hygiene Maintenance | Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems Annual (TAROS) Conference 2023 | 13/09/2023 to 15/09/2023 | Amie Owen |
| Co-Creation & Trust to Address Regulatory, Ethical and Interaction Challenges of HRI Adoption | Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems Annual (TAROS) Conference 2023 | 13/09/2023 to 15/09/2023 | Alex Elias |
| Training strategies for domain generalisation in object detection for autonomous driving | Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems Annual (TAROS) Conference 2023 | 13/09/2023 to 15/09/2023 | Afsaneh Karami |
| Rapid Development and Performance Evaluation of a Potato Planting Robot | Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems Annual (TAROS) Conference 2023 | 13/09/2023 to 15/09/2023 | Elijah Almanzor |
| Comparative study of hand-tracking and traditional control interfaces for remote palpation | Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems Annual (TAROS) Conference 2023 | 13/09/2023 to 15/09/2023 | Elijah Almanzor |
| Skid-steer friction calibration protocol for digital twin creation | Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems Annual (TAROS) Conference 2023 | 13/09/2023 to 15/09/2023 | Rachel Trimble |
| An assessment of self-supervised learning for data efficient potato instance segmentation | Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems Annual (TAROS) Conference 2023 | 13/09/2023 to 15/09/2023 | Bradley Hurst |
| A Geometric Algebra Solution to the 3D Registration Problem | Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems Annual (TAROS) Conference 2023 | 13/09/2023 to 15/09/2023 | Haris Matsantonis |
| An Automated Precision Spraying Evaluation System | Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems Annual (TAROS) Conference 2023 | 13/09/2023 to 15/09/2023 | Harry Rogers |
| Smart Parking System Using Heuristic Optimization For Autonomous Transportation Robots In Agriculture | Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems Annual (TAROS) Conference 2023 | 13/09/2023 to 15/09/2023 | Roopika Ravikanna |
| Closed-Loop Robotic Cooking of Soups with Multi-modal Taste Feedback | Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems Annual (TAROS) Conference 2023 | 13/09/2023 to 15/09/2023 | Grzegorz Sochacki |
| Integrating Reinforcement Learning and Epidemiological Models for Disease Control Optimisation with Limited Information | 12th International Congress of Plant Pathology – ICPP satellite event 2023 | 18/08/2023 to 21/08/2023 | Rachel Trimble |
| Statistical shape representations for temporal registration of plant components in 3D | IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2023 | 29/05/2023 to 02/06/2023 | Karoline Heiwolt |
| Can we use Machine Learning to Improve Control of Invasive Plant Diseases? | Accelerate AI in Biological Science workshop | 23/05/2023 | Rachel Trimble |
| Reinforcement Learning for Control of Invasive Plant Diseases | University of Cambridge Plant Sciences Department Seminar | 03/05/2023 | Rachel Trimble |
| A Technology Readiness Level for Blockchain | 38th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing | 27/03/2023 to 31/03/2023 | Garry Clawson |
| Automatic Aphid Counting Based on the Yellow Water Pan Trap Imagery and Deep Learning | University of Lincoln Postgraduate Research Showcase 2023 | 22/02/2023 to 23/02/2023 | Xumin Gao |
| Applications of Distributed Ledger Technologies in Robotics | 2023 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integrations (SII 2023) | 17/01/2023 to 20/01/2023 | Garry Clawson |
| Proactive slip control by learned slip model and trajectory adaptation | 6th Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL 2022) | 14/12/2022 to 16/12/2022 | Willow Mandil |
| Exploring Trust Toward TIAGo’s Behavior During the Completion of an Agriculture-Related Task | East Midlands ECR Robotics and Autonomous Systems Networking Event | 11/09/2022 | Alex Elias |
| Towards Autonomous Task Allocation Using Social Rob Team in a Food Factory | UKRAS 2022 Conference: “Robotics for Unconstrained Environments” | 07/09/2022 to 08/09/22 | Amie Owen |
| Blockchain Crop Assurance and Localisation | UKRAS 2022 Conference: “Robotics for Unconstrained Environments” | 07/09/2022 to 08/09/22 | Garry Clawson |
| Sub-SPARC: Investigation of Imperfect Teachers | UKRAS 2022 Conference: “Robotics for Unconstrained Environments” | 07/09/2022 to 08/09/22 | Garry Clawson |
| Temporal Registration of Plant Parts in 3D | 7th International Plant Phenotyping Symposium (IPPS) 2022 | 27/09/2022 to 30/09/2022 | Karoline Heiwolt |
| Farm robots, fruit-picking and human-robot interaction | UKRAS Robot Talk podcast session | 30/09/2022 | Roopika Ravikanna |
| Towards Autonomous Task Allocation Using Social Rob Team in a Food Factory | UKRAS2022 Conference: “Robotics for Unconstrained Environments” | 07/09/2022 to 08/09/2022 | Amie Owen |
| Sub-SPARC: Investigation of Imperfect Teachers | UKRAS2022 Conference: “Robotics for Unconstrained Environments” | 07/09/2022 to 08/09/2022 | Garry Clawson |
| Blockchain Crop Assurance and Localisation | UKRAS2022 Conference: “Robotics for Unconstrained Environments” | 07/09/2022 to 08/09/2022 | Garry Clawson |
| Towards the Application of Multi-Agent Task Allocation to Hygiene Tasks in the Food Production Industry | International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (PAAMS) 2022 | 13/07/2022 to 15/07/2022 | Amie Owen |
| Towards open source hardware robotic woodwind: an internal duct flute player | International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) 2022 | 03/07/2022 to 09/07/2022 | Garry Clawson, James Bennett and Kyle Fogarty |
| Action Conditioned Tactile Prediction: case study on slip prediction | Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2022 | 27/06/2022 to 01/07/2022 | Willow Mandil |
| Sensorized Compliant Robot Gripper for Estimating the Cooking Time of Boil-Cooked Vegetables | International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS) 2022 | 13/06/2022 to 16/06/2022 | Grzegorz Sochacki |
| Explainable Droplet Recognition System for Precision Sprayer Applications | Joint Robotics and Autonomous Systems CDT Conference 2022 | 13/06/2022 | Harry Rogers |
| Uncertainty-Guided Collaboration for Multi-Agent Precision Agriculture | Dyson visit to Corpus Christi College | 04/05/2022 | Jack Foster |
| Optimising virtual reality training in industry using crowdsourcing | 12th Conference On Learning Factories (CLF) 2022 | 10/04/2022 to 14/04/2022 | Paul David Zuercher |
| Monte Carlo methods for Uncertainty Quantification | EPSRC CDT in Modelling of Heterogeneous Systems – HetSys – Computational Toolkit Seminar Series | 29/03/2022 | Kyle Fogarty |
| Intelligent automation for hygiene maintenance in food production settings | Society of Food Hygiene & Technology (SOFHT) Innovation Day | 24/03/2022 | Amie Owen |
| An Introduction to Uncertainty Quantification | EPSRC CDT in Modelling of Heterogeneous Systems – HetSys – Computational Toolkit Seminar Series | 22/03/2022 | Kyle Fogarty |
| Precision Agriculture for Iceberg Lettuce | University of Cambridge Division F Conference 2022 | March 2022 | Will Rohde |
| Intelligent automation for hygiene maintenance in food production settings | Campden BRI Processing, Operations and Preservation Member Interest Group meeting 2022 | March 2022 | Amie Owen |
| Geometric Algebra and its applications to robotics, and more specifically how it can be used for the reconstruction of a 3D scene structure from images; an active research topic in computer vision. | University of Cambridge Course Open Day 2021 | 23/11/2021 | Haris Matsantonis |
| Maximising availability of transportation robots through intelligent allocation of parking spaces | Joint Robotics and Autonomous Systems CDT Conference 2021 | 01/10/2021 | Roopika Ravikanna |
| Extending an Open Source Hardware agri-robot with simulation and plant re-identification | Joint Robotics and Autonomous Systems CDT Conference 2021 | 01/10/2021 | Harry Rogers |
| Deep Semantic Segmentation of 3D plant point clouds | Joint Robotics and Autonomous Systems CDT Conference 2021 | 01/10/2021 | Karoline Heiwolt |
| Closed-Loop Robotic Cooking of Scrambled Eggs with a Salinity-based ‘Taste’ Sensor | International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2021 | 27/09/2021 to 01/10/2021 | Grzegorz Sochacki |
| Deep Semantic Segmentation of 3D plant point clouds | Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems Annual Conference (TAROS) 2021 | 08/09/2021 to 10/09/2021 | Karoline Heiwolt |
| Maximising availability of transportation robots through intelligent allocation of parking spaces | Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems Annual Conference (TAROS) 2021 | 08/09/2021 to 10/09/2021 | Roopika Ravikanna |
| Maximising availability of fruit transportation robots through intelligent allocation of parking spaces | Festival of Fresh 2021 | 13/07/2021 | Roopika Ravikanna |
| Allocation of Parking Spaces for Autonomous Agricultural Robots | AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2021 | 01/07/2021 to 02/07/2021 | Roopika Ravikanna |
| Automated Counting of Grapes | AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2021 | 01/07/2021 to 02/07/2021 | Bradley Hurst |
| Automatic Detection of Black Rot in Images of Grapes | AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2021 | 01/07/2021 to 02/07/2021 | Callum Lennox and Haihui Yan |
| Closed Loop Action for Robotic Chef Implementation | AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2021 | 01/07/2021 to 02/07/2021 | Grzegorz Sochacki |
| Tactile prediction for controlled manipulation | AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2021 | 01/07/2021 to 02/07/2021 | Willow Mandil |
| Using deep learning for semantic segmentation of 3D plant point clouds | AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2021 | 01/07/2021 to 02/07/2021 | Karoline Heiwolt |
| Visual perception for harvesting grapes | AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2021 | 01/07/2021 to 02/07/2021 | Elijah Almanzor |
| Compliant Sensorized Testing Device to Provide a Model Based Estimation of the Cooking Time of Vegetables | 16th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS-16) 2021 | 22/06/2021 to 25/06/2021 | Grzegorz Sochacki |
| The perks in studying robotics | International Women in Engineering Day 2021 | 23/06/2021 | Roopika Ravikanna |
| Task Allocation with Manipulative Dynamic Auctioneering for Multi Robot Systems | UKRAS2021 Conference: “Robotics at home” | 02/06/2021 | Roopika Ravikanna |
| Robotics Manipulators in Agriculture: A Brief Review | International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2021 Task-Informed Grasping Workshop – III | 31/05/2021 | Harry Rogers |
| Perception in Agri-food Manipulation: A Review | International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2021 Task-Informed Grasping Workshop – III | 31/05/2021 | Jack Foster and Mazvydas Gudelis |
| Modelling Soft Fruit Clusters for Controlled Harvesting | International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2021 Task-Informed Grasping Workshop – III | 31/05/2021 | Willow Mandil |
| Current Advances in Hardware for Agri-Food Manipulation – A Review | International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2021 Task-Informed Grasping Workshop – III | 31/05/2021 | Joshua Davy |
| Touch, smell, taste and sound sensing in robotic kitchen | International Workshop on Embodied Intelligence 2021 | 24/03/2021 to 26/03/2021 | Grzegorz Sochacki |
| 4D Crop Modelling | University of Lincoln Postgraduate Research Showcase 2021 | 24/02/2021 | Karoline Heiwolt |
| Semantic-assisted 4D crop mapping | Lincoln Agri-Robotics Mini Conference 2020 | 07/12/2020 to 11/12/2020 | Karoline Heiwolt |
| Semantic Segmentation of Plant Leaves from 3D Point Clouds using Deep Learning | Lincoln Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (LIROS) 2020 | 09/10/2020 | Karoline Heiwolt |
| Task Allocation in Multi Robot Systems using Dynamic Manipulative Bidding Strategy | Lincoln Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (LIROS) 2020 | 09/10/2020 | Roopika Ravikanna |
| Investigation into Harvesting Soft Fruit Clusters | Lincoln Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (LIROS) 2020 | 09/10/2020 | Willow Mandil |
| Residual Physics for Grasp Failure Prediction | Lincoln Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (LIROS) 2020 | 09/10/2020 | Grzegorz Sochacki |
| An Open Source Seeding Agri-Robot | UKRAS2020 Conference: “Robots into the real world” | 17/04/2020 | Harry Rogers |
| Automated Topological Mapping for Agricultural Robots | UKRAS2020 Conference: “Robots into the real world” | 17/04/2020 | Willow Mandil |
Presentations by AgriFoRwArdS Staff
| Presentation title | Event | Dates | Presenter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Towards an Abstract Lightweight Multi-robot ROS Simulator for Rapid Experimentation | Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems Annual (TAROS) Conference 2023 | 13/09/2023 to 15/09/2023 | Gautham Das |
| Simultaneous Base And Arm Trajectories For Multi-target Mobile Agri-robot | Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems Annual (TAROS) Conference 2023 | 13/09/2023 to 15/09/2023 | Charles Fox |
| Heretogeneous Learning for Resilient Multi-Robot Systems | Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems Annual (TAROS) Conference 2023 | 13/09/2023 to 15/09/2023 | Amanda Prorok |
| The future of agriculture: robots to the rescue! | British Science Week 2023 (University of Lincoln) | 13/03/2023 to 17/03/2023 | Grzegorz Cielniak |
| Self-driving cars, industrial robots, and multi-robot systems | UKRAS Robot Talk Podcast | 02/12/2022 | Amanda Prorok |
| Collection and Evaluation of a Long-Term 4D Agri-Robotic Dataset | “Perception and Navigation for Autonomous Robotics in Unstructured and Dynamic Environments” (PNARUDE) Workshop at IROS 22 | 23/10/2022 to 27/10/2022 | Riccardo Polvara |
| Interdisciplinary research in the field of agri-technology | Festival of Fresh 2022 | 08/06/2022 | Simon Pearson |
| Learning-Based Methods for Cooperative Multi-Robot Systems | Perspectives in Hybrid Autonomous Systems Engineering (PHASE) 2022 | 29/06/2022 | Amanda Prorok |
| Collaborative Robotic Systems for Sustainable Food Production | Perspectives in Hybrid Autonomous Systems Engineering (PHASE) 2022 | 29/06/2022 | Elizabeth Sklar |
| Interdisciplinary research in the field of agri-technology | Festival of Fresh 2022 | 08/06/2022 | Simon Pearson |
| Weeding and harvesting robots for sustainable and affordable horticulture | AI for Good Global Summit 2022 | 28/04/2022 | Elizabeth Sklar |
| Opportunities and barriers to robotic field phenotyping | PhenomUK AGM 2022 | 30/03/2022 | Simon Pearson |
| Nitrogen Efficiency in Farming | Lincoln Institute for Agri-Food Technology Breakfast Briefing | 11/02/2022 | Simon Pearson |
| Novel approaches to using robotics for research | Lincoln Institute for Agri-Food Technology Breakfast Briefing | 08/02/2022 | Oorbessy Gaju |
| Technical innovations addressing the labour and skills shortage | The 23rd Annual SACAPP Potato Growers Conference | 26/01/2022 | Simon Pearson |
| The Potentials of Robotics for Vegetable Production | Vegetable Consultants’ Association Conference 2021 | 09/12/2021 | Grzegorz Cielniak |
| Agri-robotics and computer vision for plant phenotyping | 3rd NordPlant annual meeting “Successful Plant Modelling and Phenotyping for the Nordic Countries – What is Needed?” | 25/11/2021 | Junfeng Gao |
| Recent advances in agri-robotics technology | Transforming Food Production Hub at CropTec 2021 | 24/11/2021 | Grzegorz Cielniak |
| Autonomous weed detection & mapping | Transforming Food Production Hub at CropTec 2021 | 24/11/2021 | Grzegorz Cielniak |
| Methods of integrated weed management for blackgrass | REAP Conference 2021: Changing Time(s) For Agriculture | 10/11/2021 | Shaun Coutts |
| Agricultural robots: opportunities and challenges in automating crop care | The British Crop Production Council (BCPC) Congress 2021 | 01/11/2021 to 02/11/2021 | Marc Hanheide |
| A Practical Application of Market-based Mechanisms for Allocating Harvesting Tasks | 19th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (PAAMS) 2021 | 06/10/21 to 08/10/21 | Helen Harman |
| A Geometric Algebra Approach to Orthogonal Transformations and their use in Signal and Image Processing | 8th Conference on Applied Geometric Algebras in Computer Science and Engineering (AGACSE) 2021 | 06/09/2021 to 10/09/2021 | Joan Lasenby |
| Delivering net zero food | Countryside COP2021 | 11/10/2021 to 15/10/2021 | Ravi Valluru, Grzegorz Cielniak, Marcello Calisti and Mini Rai |
| Sugar beet and carbon: what we need to know | Countryside COP2021 | 11/10/2021 to 15/10/2021 | Iain Gould |
| Auction-based Task Allocation Mechanisms for Managing Fruit Harvesting Tasks | UKRAS21 Conference: “Robotics at Home” | 02/06/2021 | Helen Harman |
| Assessing the probability of human injury during UV-C treatment of crops by robots | UKRAS21 Conference: “Robotics at Home” | 02/06/2021 | Leonardo Guevara |
| Mobile robotics and HRI in the fruit harvesting chain | International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) Task-Informed Grasping Workshop – III | 31/05/2021 | Marc Hanheide |
| Robotics in Crop Care | Nanjing Agricultural University | 26/05/2021 | Junfeng Gao |
| Autonomous Robots supporting Soft-Fruit production | The International Conference on Digital Technologies for Sustainable Crop Production (DIGICROP) 2020 | 01/11/2020 to 10/11/2020 | Marc Hanheide |
| Soft Fruit Perception in the Wild | The International Conference on Digital Technologies for Sustainable Crop Production (DIGICROP) 2020 | 01/11/2020 to 10/11/2020 | Grzegorz Cielniak |
| Estimating An Object’s Inertial Parameters By Robotic Pushing: A Data-Driven Approach | Lincoln Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (LIROS) 2020 | 09/10/2020 | Amir Ghalamzan Esfahani |
| Incorporating Spatial Constraints into a Bayesian Tracking Framework for Improved Localisation in Agricultural Environments | Lincoln Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (LIROS) 2020 | 09/10/2020 | Gautham Das |
| Next-Best-Sense: A Multi-Criteria Robotic Exploration Strategy for RFID Tags Discovery | Lincoln Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (LIROS) 2020 | 09/10/2020 | Riccardo Polvara |
Other Activities and Outputs
- October 2023 – Bradley Hurst gives a short presentation on his research to the Lincoln Centre for Autonomous Systems (L-CAS) committee at their general meeting.
- September 2023 – Haris Matsantonis wins the ‘Best Computation’ award at the Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems Annual (TAROS) Conference 2023.
- September 2023 – Roopika Ravikanna wins the ‘Best Application’ award at the Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems Annual (TAROS) Conference 2023.
- September 2023 – Roopika Ravikanna gives a short presentation on her research to the Lincoln Centre for Autonomous Systems (L-CAS) committee at their general meeting.
- August 2023 – Patent ‘Determining Multiple Camera Positions from Multiple Videos’ by Joan Lasenby
- June 2023 – Rachel Trimble attends the Defra Plant Health Research and Development Stakeholder Forum to gain an understanding of the wider context of how her work might fit into the sector, she also met with a wide range of people working on different aspects of plant health in the UK.
- May 2023 – Mazvydas Gudelis entered the PyTorch Docathon 2023 and achieved 3rd place.
- May 2023 – Bethan Moncur, Paul-David Zuercher, and Garry Clawson are members of the Institute for Manufacturing First Year PhD Conference 2023 Conference organising committee.
- May 2023 – Mazvydas Gudelis won the Best Poster award at the UEA post-graduate day.
- May 2023 – Vijja Wichitwechkarn, Grzegorz Sochacki, Jack Foster, Will Rohde and Elijah Almanzor take part in the PUB-R ICRA 2023 Competition, achieving 3rd place.
- April 2023 – Patent ‘Lifted semantic graph embedding for omnidirectional place recognition’ by Ignas Budvytis
- April 2023 – Patent ‘Multispectral image decorrelation method and system’ by Graham Finlayson
- March 2023 – Willow Mandil’s research is used to publish ‘Deep Functional Predictive Control for Strawberry Cluster Manipulation using Tactile Prediction’.
- March 2023 – Prabuddhi Wariyapperuma supports the University of Lincoln Lambing Sunday event, providing robot demonstrations for members of the public.
- March 2023 – Patent ‘Learning-based sampling for image matting’ by Cengiz Öztireli
- February 2023 – Paul-David Zuercher is a committee member for the IEC’s and ISO’s Joint Technical Commission for Information Technology and Digital Twins.
- February 2023 – Prabuddhi Wariyapperuma works on a one-month project on smart trolley device manufacturing in the context of the InnovateUK robot highways project.
- January 2023 – Patent ‘Computer vision method and system’ by Ignas Budvytis and Roberto Cipolla
- October 2022 to September 2023 – Bethan Moncur is a member of the Strategic Technology and Innovation Management (STIM) Consortium, led by IfM Engage.
- September 2022 – Jack Foster attends the University of Cambridge High Performance Computing Autumn Academy (September 5-16th 2022).
- September 2022 – Prof Simon Pearson is invited to attend the Best of British Businesses Awards (focused on agri-food) due to Lincoln’s leading research in the area.
- September 2022 – Samuel Carter, Nikolaos Tsagkopoulos and Garry Clawson’s project is featured in Hackaday Magazine. The project has since received an official CERN-OHL-W (open hardware) license.
- August 2022 – Dr Oorbessy Gaju represents Lincoln robotics at the exhibition stand at Cereals in Cambridge.
- July 2022 to August 2022 – Jack Foster co-supervises 6 Mathematics PhD students across UK universities for a research project with the Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research in July and August 2022.July 2022 – Dr Ravi Valluru is a member of the Future of Wheat in the UK discussion panel.
- July 2022 – Dr Ravi Valluru is a member of a panel discussion on the Future of Wheat in the UK.
- July 2022 – Dr Carolina Camacho Villa discussing the future of wheat and the role robotic technologies will play in the future with the Lincolnshire Food Partnership.
- July 2022 – Prof Simon Pearson is involved in the Midlands Engine Agritech & Food Tech cluster research roundtable discussion led by CBI Economics.
- June 2022 – Jack Foster and Haihui Yan feature in a promotional video for James Dyson Foundation scholarships.
- June 2022 – Dr Oorbessy Gaju hosts an agri-food robotics conference exhibition stand at Cereals 2022 in Cambridge.
- June 2022 – Dr Grzegorz Cielniak runs a ‘Plant 3D Scanning Workshop’.
- June 2022 – Prof Simon Pearson represents the University of Lincoln at the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) team away day.
- June 2022 – Roopika Ravikanna, Samuel Carter, Xumin Gao and Garry Clawson took part in robotics demonstrations as part of an outreach visit from Boston College students to the University of Lincoln Riseholme Campus.
- June 2022 – Prof Simon Pearson hosts the National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB) during a visit to the University of Lincoln Riseholme Campus to view the work ongoing with Agri-Robotics.
- June 2022 – Prof Simon Pearson hosts the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) during a visit to the University of Lincoln Riseholme Campus to view the work ongoing with Agri-Robotics.
- June 2022 – Garry Clawson and Roopika Ravikanna run a live virtual demonstration of the robotics systems in the University of Lincoln strawberry tunnels for RoboLab Live as part of the UKRAS Festival of Robotics in June 2022.
- June 2022 – Prof Simon Pearson co-chairs the DEFRA Automation Review published in June 2022.
- June 2022 – Roopika Ravikanna runs a workshop titled ‘The Way We Eat’ as part of the TedEx event at the University of Lincoln Riseholme Campus, aimed at bridging the educational gap about understanding where our food comes from.
- June 2022 – Karl McCartney (MP) visits the University of Lincoln Riseholme Campus, hosted by Prof Simon Pearson, to view the work ongoing with Agri-Robotics.
- June 2022 – The University of Lincoln host an open day research showcase at the Riseholme Campus
- May 2022 – Prof Simon Pearson hosts a visit from the Brexit Opportunities Unit to discuss creating new regulatory frameworks to better support the agri-food sector, the importance of data sharing B2B and for the public good, health and safety, ethics, Human-robot interaction.
- May 2022 – Grzegorz Sochacki is a guest on BBC Radio Berkshire, BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 5.
- May 2022 – Prof Simon Pearson attends 10 Downing Street for the ‘Spring Showcase’, celebrating the best of British business (this year focusing on the agri-food sector).
- April 2022 – Callum Lennox, Garry Clawson, Emlyn Williams, Xumin Gao attend the Douglas Bomford Trust Bi-Annual Meeting, Callum also presented his research at the meeting.
- April 2022 – Dr Marcello Calisti is a member of the Future of Soft Robotics discussion panel at the RoboSoft 2022 Conference.
- April 2022 – Dr Marcello Calisiti chairs the food handling task at the RoboSoft 2022 Conference.
- March 2022 – Prof Simon Pearson and Prof Elizabeth Sklar attend the World Agri-Tech Summit in San Francisco representing Lincoln agri-robotics research.
- March 2022 – Prof Simon Pearson visits the Department of Plant Sciences and Robotics/Engineering Workshops at the University of California, Davis.
- March 2022 – Grzegorz Sochacki chairs a breakout session at the International Workshop on Embedded Intelligence 2022.
- March 2022 – Prof Simon Pearson visits JEPCO in Kirton-in-Lindsey to discuss the best way to transfer the development of crop monitoring and forecasting, using cameras, developed at Lincoln to the system at JEPCO and to discuss collaborative research.
- March 2022 – Dr Amir Ghalamzan Esfahani exhibited the University of Lincoln’s strawberry picking robot at the UKRI Challenge Event on Robots for a Safer World in Bristol.
- March 2022 – Karoline Heiwolt, Roopika Ravikanna, Samuel Carter, Xumin Gao, Garry Clawson, Nikolaos Tsagkopoulos and Willow Mandil take part in British Science Week 2022 at the University of Lincoln, where they give demonstrations and spend time speaking to school-aged children about robotics.
- February 2022 – Prof Simon Pearson attends the Agricultural Universities Council meeting in Reading.
- February 2022 – Dr Ravi Valluru attends the Light Science Conference in Essex, representing Lincoln agri-robotics research.
- February 2022 – Charles Fox awarded patent for ‘Agricultural Machine‘.
- February 2022 – Prof Simon Pearson is a member of the ‘Changing the way we grow, how and when’ discussion panel at EAT SUMMIT.
- February 2022 – Prof Simon Pearson is a member of the ‘Shaping the National Service Robotics Proving Ground Facilities’ discussion panel.
- January 2022 – Prof Simon Pearson conducts a demonstration of agri robotic work at Teledyne Technologies in Lincoln.
- December 2021 – The AgriFoRwArdS CDT works with Lincoln Agri Robotics (LAR) to run a Holiday Hackathon focused on identifying parts of poinsettia plants.
- December 2021 – Dr Grzegorz Cielniak runs a workshop titled ‘Perception Systems for Robotic Weeding’ at Shanghai University.
- November 2021 – Willow Mandil represents the CDT at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, demonstrating the ‘robofruit’ strawberry picking robot.
- November 2021 – Prof Simon Pearson takes part in discussion panel on overcoming barriers to autonomous robot adoption in soft fruit farms.
- November 2021 – Elizabeth Sklar co-chairs workshop at AAAI Fall Symposium: Where AI meets Food security (WAIF)
- November 2021 – Roopika Ravikanna, Amie Owen and Bradley Hurst represent the CDT on the stand at the Fresh Produce Consortium Festivals Event 2021, showcasing research to public, prospective students, and industry.
- November 2021 – Elizabeth Sklar and Shaun Coutts record AAEngineers YouTube presentation, ‘Can we teach robots to think’.
- October 2021 to September 2022 – Haris Matsantonis works as a demonstrator for the IBA4 Lab at the University of Cambridge.
- October 2021 to September 2022 – Will Rohde works as a demonstrator for third year undergraduate lab classes at the University of Cambridge.
- October 2021 to September 2022 – Will Rohde has presented his work to the general public in various University of Cambridge Open Days.
- October 2021 – Dr Iain Gould runs a ‘Soils’ workshop and activity at Lincolnshire Day 2021 held at the Lincolnshire Showground.
- October 2021 – Harry Rogers, Garry Clawson and Dr Charles Fox lead ‘Simulation and Plant Re-identification’ at the Oxford Autonomous Intelligent Machines and Systems Conference.
- October 2021 – Marcello Calisti and Junfeng Gao demonstrate agricultural robotics at the Lincolnshire Harvest Festival.
- September 2021 – Junfeng Gao is a panel discussing future possible impacts of robotics innovation on agriculture and other fields at the Towards Autonomous Robotics Systems Conference 2021.
- September 2021 – Simon Pearson attends round table for Digital Catapult and the UK Government, focussed on the Natural Environment (including Forestry, Agriculture, Farming, Climate Change and Conservation).
- August 2021 – Junfeng Gao is a member on a panel to discuss the future possible impacts of robotics innovation on agriculture and other fields at the Towards Autonomous Robotics Systems Conference 2021.
- July 2021 – Amie Owen and Mazvydas Gudelis, along with the rest of their Summer School 2021 group, receive the award for the Best Summer School Presentation at the AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2021, for their presentation titled ‘Computer vision for quality assessment of apples’.
- July 2021 – Garry Clawson (an incoming student at the time) receives the award for best question at the AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2021.
- July 2021 – Karoline Heiwolt receives the award for the Best Student Presentation at the AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2021, for her presentation titled ‘Using deep learning for semantic segmentation of 3D plant point clouds’.
- July 2021 – Willow Mandil engages as a member of the discussion panel for Bob Fisher’s keynote talk ‘The TrimBot2020 gardening robot and other agricultural robot issues’ at the AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2021.
- July 2021 – Roopika Ravikanna engages as a member of the discussion panel for Jeff Keiser’s keynote talk ’30+ Years of AgriTech… What have we learned? …and, how do we apply that for the Future?’ at the AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2021.
- July 2021 – Karoline Heiwolt and Grzegorz Sochacki engage as members of the discussion panel for Tony Pridmore’s keynote talk ‘Plant Phenotyping: Getting to the root of the problem’ at the AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2021.
- June 2021 – Grzegorz Sochacki works with University of Cambridge colleagues to design and create the robotic kits used as part of the AgriFoRwArdS Summer School 2021.
- June 2021 – Grzegorz Sochacki provides technical support for the AgriFoRwArdS Summer School 2021.
- June 2021 – Grzegorz Sochacki co-chairs a breakout session at the International Workshop on Embedded Intelligence 2021
- May 2021 – Amir Ghalamzan Esfahani award patent for ‘Robofruit: A Universal Robotic Picking Head‘.
- April 2021 – Roopika Ravikanna, Amie Owen and Bradley Hurst represented the CDT at the Fresh Produce Consortium Festivals Event 2021, showcasing their research to public, prospective students, and members of industry.
- April 2021 – Prof Elizabeth Sklar was co-chair of a workshop organised at the AAAI Fall Symposium: Where AI meets Food security (WAIF).
- April 2021 – Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at Defra visited the University of Lincoln’s Riseholme Campus and received a tour of the facilities and robotics projects.
- March 2021 – Grzegorz Sochacki co-chairs a breakout session at the International Workshop on Embedded Intelligence 2021.
- March 2021 – Karoline Heiwolt, Roopika Ravikanna, Samuel Carter, Xumin Gao, Garry Clawson, Nikolaos Tsagkopoulos, Willow Mandil run an outreach demonstration and stall at the University of Lincoln British Science Week school engagement event.
- December 2020 – The AgriFoRwArdS CDT works with Lincoln Agri Robotics (LAR) to run a Holiday Hackathon focused on identifying parts of poinsettia plants.
- October 2020 to September 2021 – Callum Lennox works with Professor Elizabeth Sklar on an AI Unleashed project.
- June 2019 – Amir Ghalamzan Esfahani runs RSS full day workshop on Task-Informed Grasping (TIG-II): from Perception to Physical Interaction