Here are some of lecture slides
about "Automation and Robotics in Agriculture", these are presented
by Dr. Manoj Karkee during SET
Farm Sustainable Engineering Tools for Agricultural Robotics and Mechanization
SET-FARM 2 – 2017, summer school held in Pulchowk Campus, Nepal dated on
18 to 20 June 2017. These slides are provided by Dr, Karkee for us reader and
we publish with his permission. Please do not miss use these files.
The main topics in these slides are:
MODELING,
IDENTIFICATION AND ANALYSIS OF A TRACTOR AND TOWED IMPLEMENT SYSTEM
o
Background
o
Open
and closed loop analysis
o
System
sensitivity analysis
o
Parameter
estimation and model validation
Automation and
Robotics in Agriculture
o
Center
for Precision and Automated Ag Systems (CPAAS)
o Present condition:
Problem, solution
o Why automation
o Past success
o current
progress
UASs
IN AGRICULTURE OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES
o
CPAAS: CENTER FOR
PRECISION AND AUTOMATED AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS
o UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS - UAS
o
UAVs (Unmanned
Aerial Vehicles)
o
REMOTE SENSING
o
CROP MONITORING
o
HLB (CITRUS
GREENING) DISEASE DETECTION
o
UAV FOR BIRD
DETERRENCE
o
AUTOMATED BIRD
DETECTION
o
AUTONOMOUS
SPRAYING IN NAPA VALLEY
o BATTERY SWAPPING
Automated fresh market tree fruit harvesting
o
Center for
Precision and Automated Ag Systems (CPAAS)
o
Why Automated
Harvesting?
o
Brief Historical
Account
o
Tree Fruit
Harvesting Research at WSU
o
Studies on
Catching and Handling Surfaces
o
Automation for
Bin Handling
o
more
•
Apple and Cherry Harvesting
•
Apple and Raspberry Pruning
•
Intelligent Bin Transport System
•
Automated Weed Control In Vegetables
•
Water and Nitrogen Stress Sensing
•
Solid Set Canopy Delivery System
•
UASs for Production Agriculture
Automated
Weed Control in Vegetable Crops
o
Methods to
control weed
o
Available
Technologies: Crop Thinning with Precision Chemical Application, Blueriver
Technology Ramsay Highlander, Precision Cultivation Poulsen Engineering
Precision Flaming
o
Crop
Signaling-based Automated Weed Control in Vegetable Crops
o
Crop Signaling
o
Mechanical
Weeding
o
Automatic
Intra-row Mechanical Weed Control System
o
Precision
Chemical Weeding
o
Robotic Platform
and System Integration
o
Machine
Vision-based Weed Detection
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About
Manoj Karkee
Dr. Manoj Karkee is from Bhojpur, Nepal. Now, he is Associate
Professor at Biological Systems Engineering Department, Center for Precision
& Automated Agricultural Systems, IAREC – Washington State University, USA.
He has completed Bachelor of Computer Engineering in 2002 from Institute of
Engineering, Tribhuvan University Nepal and Master’s Degree in Remote Sensing
and GIS from Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand. Then, he spent
the next five years in Ames, Iowa working on his doctoral research and
education, earning his PhD in Agricultural Engineering and Human Computer
Interaction from Iowa State University in 2009.
Now, Dr. Karkee is working in Washington State University
(WSU) as Associate Professor since 2010 where he leads a strong research
program in agricultural automation and mechanization area with a emphasis on machine
vision and sensing technologies for agricultural automation and robotics.
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