Caros colegas,

Dia 04 de novembro às 16h, o Capítulo Sul Brasileiro da Sociedade de Robótica e Automação organizará um painel de discussão trazendo alguns dos maiores pesquisadores na área de Robótica para Agricultura! Participem e divulguem com seus alunos e colegas. Lembrando que esse evento será em inglês.

Link para o evento: https://www.facebook.com/events/356155678825619/

Link para o streaming: https://youtu.be/1He4oj8_WaA

Abstract:

Agriculture is undoubtedly a key topic for humankind's future. We are living in a world where the population is increasing fast and we need to deal with climate change and environmental issues. In this complex scenario, robotics can play a decisive role in increasing farm production and reducing costs. The challenges faced in this field are not easy. The development of autonomous robots for agriculture has proved to be complex and time-consuming. Aerial and terrestrial robots have to deal with temperature, brightness, and humidity changes. The presence of unknown obstacles is also hard and increases the robot’s perception and processing system requirements and costs. For this webinar, IEEE RAS South Brazil Chapter invited 4 researchers to share with us his experiences and views of the robotics future in agriculture. We hope that their opinions and views can inspire other researchers to join us in this challenge!

Panelists:

Marcelo Becker (Moderator) is a Professor at the Engineering School of São Carlos - University of São Paulo (EESC-USP), Brazil. He is the head of the Mechatronics Lab. His chief areas of interest are mobile robots for agriculture, inspection robots, design methodologies and tools, mechanical design applied to robots, and mechatronics.

Girish Chowdhary is a Professor at Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (ABE-UIUC), USA. He is the head of the Distributed Autonomous Systems Lab. His areas of interest are  Machine Learning for machine vision, Adaptive Control and Reinforcement Learning, Autonomy, and Robotics.

Hugo Gimbert is a CNRS Researcher in  Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique - LaBRI at Bordeaux University, France. His interests are social choice theory and practice, precision farming, logics for handling probabilities, and controlling humanoid robots with MDPs.

Olivier Ly is a Professor at Bordeaux University - Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique - LaBRI, France. He leads the Rhoban project which deals with humanoid and autonomous robotics. His interests are Humanoid and Autonomous Robotics, Infinite Model Theory and Algorithmic Topology, Software Security, and Smart Cards.

José Paulo Molin is a Professor at Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture   - University of São Paulo (ESALQ-USP), Brazil. He is the head of the Precision Agriculture Lab. His main interests are agricultural mechanization and precision agriculture.