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Presentations

2024/25

James Heselden, Roopika Ravikanna, & Alex Elias – “An Exploratory Study on the Use of Robot Dogs in Shepherding” (video entry) – Human Robot Interaction (HRI) 2025 [March 2025] – Melbourne, Australia.

Robbie Cato – “Enhancing Human-Robot Interaction (HRI): Bridging the Gap Between Humans and Machines” (oral) – Robotics and Automation Exhibition 2025 (co-located with the 10th annual IntraLogisteX Exhibition and the Sustainable Supply Chain Exhibition) [March 2025] – Birmingham, UK.

Robert Stevenson – “Open Source Hardware Whisker Sensor” (oral) – Lincoln Centre for Autonomous Systems (L-CAS) General Meeting [February 2025] – Lincoln, UK.

Xumin Gao – “Interactive Image-Based Aphid Counting in Yellow Water Traps under Stirring Actions” (oral) – Visual Observation and Analysis of Vertebrate and Insect Behavior workshop at ICPR2024 [December 2024] – Online.

Afsaneh Karami – “Jacobi Center-Surround Retinex and Gauss-seidel Retinex” (poster) – Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas) PhD Student Conference 2024 [December 2024] – Lowestoft, UK.

Liyou Zhou – “A Neural Simulator from Open Source Components” (oral) – IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing (IRC) 2024 [December 2024] – Online (held in Tokyo, Japan).

Garry Clawson – “Building Transparency in Critical Mineral Supply Chains: Global Supply Chain Observatory” (oral) – MINEX Europe Forum 2025 [October 2024] – Prague, Czech Republic.

Emmanuel Soumo – “A Data-Driven Approach for Optimal Control of Autonomous Greenhouse for Lettuce Growth” (oral) – Crystal Heart Salad industry visit [October 2024] – Hull, UK.

2023/24

Violet Mayne – “Automating the Clock Drawing Test with Deep Learning and Saliency Maps” (oral) – EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2024 [September 2024] – Viana do Castelo, Portugal.

Robbie Cato – “Title Unknown” (oral) – Robotics & Automation Conference (Robocon) 2024 [September 2024] – London, UK.

Alex Elias – “Unveiling Trust Dynamics with a Mobile Service Robot: Exploring Various Interaction Styles for an Agricultural Task” (oral) – RO-MAN 2024 [August 2024] – Los Angeles, USA.

Andrew Perrett – “The benefits of ordinal regression under domain shift” (oral) – Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS) 2024 [August 2024] – London, UK.

James Heselden – “Duckling Platooning – Safety Guarantees through Controlled Information Disclosure” (oral) – Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS) 2024 [August 2024] – London, UK.

Robert Stevenson – “Open-source hardware whisker sensor” (oral) – Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS) 2024 [August 2024] – London, UK.

Omar Ali – “3D printer based open-source calibration platform for whisker sensors” (oral) – Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS) 2024 [August 2024] – London, UK.

James Heselden – “The AgriFoRwArdS CDT Summer School – LLM based state-machine (function calling) for planning robot actions (Theme 2)” (oral) – Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS) 2024 [August 2024] – London, UK.

Omar Ali & Benjamin Nicholls – “The AgriFoRwArdS CDT Summer School – Responsible adoption (Theme 3) & Phenotyping Perception beyond 2D Colour (Theme 6)” (oral) – Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS) 2024 [August 2024] – London, UK.

Robert Stevenson – “The AgriFoRwArdS CDT Summer School – Ground Navigation/SLAM for creating weed/plant maps (Theme 4)” (oral) – Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS) 2024 [August 2024] – London, UK.

Catherine Merchant, Dimitrios Paparas – “The AgriFoRwArdS CDT Summer School – Interactive Perception (Theme 5)” (oral) – Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS) 2024 [August 2024] – London, UK.

Yi Zhang – “Virtual model control for manipulation and path planning under uncertainties” (oral) – UKACC PhD Showcase and InstMC Awards Night and Annual Distinguished Lecture 2024 [July 2024] – London, UK.

James Bennett – “Simplifying Tone Curves for Image Enhancement” (oral) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2024: Robots in Action [July 2024] – Norwich, UK.

Xumin Gao – “Automatic aphid counting based on deep learning and robotics technology in unstructured agriculture environments” (oral) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2024: Robots in Action [July 2024] – Norwich, UK.

Bethan Moncur – “Production simulations to support innovation decisions” (oral) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2024: Robots in Action [July 2024] – Norwich, UK.

Garry Clawson – “Beyond calories: A paradigm shift in food supply chain design” (oral) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2024: Robots in Action [July 2024] – Norwich, UK.

Rachel Russell – “Baselines for optimising epidemiological control” (oral) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2024: Robots in Action [July 2024] – Norwich, UK.

Vijja Wichitwechkarn – “Towards Large Lettuce Models – Deep Plant Growth Modelling” (oral) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2024: Robots in Action [July 2024] – Norwich, UK.

Omar Ali – “Mixed Reality for Enhanced Human-Robot Interaction” (poster) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2024: Robots in Action [July 2024] – Norwich, UK.

Eden Attenborough – “Natural Language Understanding based on RAG towards a General-Purpose Service Robot” (poster) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2024: Robots in Action [July 2024] – Norwich, UK.

George Davies – “A computer-vision based training coach for computerised physical training” (poster) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2024: Robots in Action [July 2024] – Norwich, UK.

Omar Faris – “Benchmarking Protocols for Soft Robotic Harvesting” (poster) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2024: Robots in Action [July 2024] – Norwich, UK.

Afsaneh Karami – “Jacobi Center-Surround Retinex and Gauss-seidel Retinex” (poster) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2024: Robots in Action [July 2024] – Norwich, UK.

Violet Mayne – “An Ensemble-Based Approach for Sample-Efficient Deep Reinforcement Learning from Self-Demonstration” (poster) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2024: Robots in Action [July 2024] – Norwich, UK.

Catherine Merchant – “Development and Assessment of Lightweight Open-Source Robotic Arms” (poster) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2024: Robots in Action [July 2024] – Norwich, UK.

Benjamin Nicholls – “AI cleaning of unstructured soil data” (poster) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2024: Robots in Action [July 2024] – Norwich, UK.

Dimitrios Paparas – “Predictive Modelling of Grafting Success in Tomato Plants” (poster) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2024: Robots in Action [July 2024] – Norwich, UK.

Andrew Perrett – “The benefits of ordinal regression under domain shift” (poster) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2024: Robots in Action [July 2024] – Norwich, UK.

Emmanuel Soumo – “A Data-Driven Approach for Optimal Control of Autonomous Greenhouse for Lettuce Growth” (poster) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2024: Robots in Action [July 2024] – Norwich, UK.

Robert Stevenson – “Analysis of Adaptive Passive Technologies for the Locomotion and Inspection with Autonomous Robots in Unstructured Environments” (poster) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2024: Robots in Action [July 2024] – Norwich, UK.

Jacob Swindell – “Discrete Gaussian Process Representations for Optimising Drone-based Precision Weed Mapping” (poster) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2024: Robots in Action [July 2024] – Norwich, UK.

Prabuddhi Wariyapperuma – “A robust multimodal human sensing methodology based on affordable sensors for human-robot interaction in agricultural scenarios” (poster) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2024: Robots in Action [July 2024] – Norwich, UK.

Amanda Xu – “Dynamic Trajectory Planning for Robotic Manipulation in Unstructured Environments” (poster) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2024: Robots in Action [July 2024] – Norwich, UK.

Omar Ali, Grey Churchill, George Davies, Karoline Heiwolt, Robert Stevenson, Jacob Swindell & Vijja Wichitwechkarn – “SLAM (Simultaneous localisation and mapping)” (oral) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Summer School: Robotic Phenotyping [July 2024] – Wageningen, The Netherlands.

Robbie Cato, Alex Elias, Charalampos Matsantonis, Bethan Moncur, Andrew Simpson & Haihui Yan – “Responsible Adoption (Ethical, Legal, Social, Environmental Aspects, Considerations)” (oral) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Summer School: Robotic Phenotyping [July 2024] – Wageningen, The Netherlands.

Elijah Almanzor, Xumin Gao, Catherine Merchant, Dimitrios Paparas & Emlyn Williams – “Interactive Perception: A heuristic approach to overcoming physical occlusions in tomato picking” (oral) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Summer School: Robotic Phenotyping [July 2024] – Wageningen, The Netherlands.

Jack Bradley, Kyle Fogarty, Violet Mayne, Andrew Perrett, Harry Rogers & Prabuddhi Wariyapperuma “Beyond 2D images” (oral) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Summer School: Robotic Phenotyping [July 2024] – Online.

Bradley Hurst, Afsaneh Karami & Benjamin Nicholls – “Domain Generalisation for plant/weed detection” (oral) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Summer School: Robotic Phenotyping [July 2024] – Wageningen, The Netherlands.

Eden Attenborough, Sean Chow, Jack Foster, James Heselden, Callum Lennox, Rachel Russell, Amanda Xu, Yi Zhang, Liyou Zhou & Paul-David Zuercher – “Exploration of LLM-Enhanced State-Machine function-calls for Planning Robot Actions” (oral) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Summer School: Robotic Phenotyping [July 2024] – Wageningen, The Netherlands.

George Davies – “A Computer Vision Based Training Coach for Computerised Physical Training” (poster) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Summer School: Robotic Phenotyping [July 2024] – Wageningen, The Netherlands

Amanda Xu – “Adaptive Hybrid Control Architectures for LLM-Controlled Robot Arm” (poster) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Summer School: Robotic Phenotyping [July 2024] – Wageningen, The Netherlands.

Karoline Heiwolt – “Semantic-assisted 4D Plant Modelling” (poster) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Summer School: Robotic Phenotyping [July 2024] – Wageningen, The Netherlands.

Jacob Swindell – “PATHFINDER: Precision Agriculture through High-Fidelity Flight Navigation and Exploration Routing” (poster) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Summer School: Robotic Phenotyping [July 2024] – Wageningen, The Netherlands.

Catherine Merchant – “Advancing Automation: Development and Assessment of Lightweight Open-Source Robotic Arms” (poster) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Summer School: Robotic Phenotyping [July 2024] – Wageningen, The Netherlands.

Liyou Zhou – “Splat Gym: A Neural Simulator Environment for Training Fruit Picking Robots” (poster) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Summer School: Robotic Phenotyping [July 2024] – Wageningen, The Netherlands.

Dimitrios Paparas – “Predictive Modelling of Grafting Success” (poster) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Summer School: Robotic Phenotyping [July 2024] – Wageningen, The Netherlands.

Omar Ali – “Enhancing Human-Robot Interaction with Mixed Reality” (poster) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Summer School: Robotic Phenotyping [July 2024] – Wageningen, The Netherlands.

Bradley Hurst – “Pseudo Labeling for Improved Segmentation of Densely Clustered Potato Tubers in Storage” (poster) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Summer School: Robotic Phenotyping [July 2024] – Wageningen, The Netherlands.

Robbie Cato – “Economic Analysis & Development of Localised Controlled Environment Potato Farming Systems” (poster) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Summer School: Robotic Phenotyping [July 2024] – Wageningen, The Netherlands.

Benjamin Nicholls – “AI cleaning of unstructured data for application in models trained on lab-derived and clean datasets” (poster) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Summer School: Robotic Phenotyping [July 2024] – Wageningen, The Netherlands.

Violet Mayne – “Coastal Surveying with a Hyperspectral Camera” (poster) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Summer School: Robotic Phenotyping [July 2024] – Wageningen, The Netherlands.

Eden Attenborough – “Natural Language Understanding based on RAG towards a General-Purpose Service Robot” (poster) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Summer School: Robotic Phenotyping [July 2024] – Wageningen, The Netherlands.

Sean Chow – “Title Unknown” (poster) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Summer School: Robotic Phenotyping [July 2024] – Wageningen, The Netherlands.

Harry Rogers – “eXplainable AI Unveils Enhanced Training Strategies and Diverse Model Weight Visualisations” (poster) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Summer School: Robotic Phenotyping [July 2024] – Wageningen, The Netherlands.

Robert Stevenson – “Analysis of Adaptive Passive Technologies for the Locomotion and Inspection with Autonomous Robots in Unstructured Environments” (poster) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Summer School: Robotic Phenotyping [July 2024] – Wageningen, The Netherlands.

Elijah Almanzor – “Reflex-based Sensory Motor Coordination in Musculoskeletal Systems” (poster) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Summer School: Robotic Phenotyping [July 2024] – Wageningen, The Netherlands.

Callum Lennox – “Title unknown” (poster) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Summer School: Robotic Phenotyping [July 2024] – Wageningen, The Netherlands.

Rachel Russell – “Reinforcement learning for optimising prioritization of epidemic control – baselining and interfaces” (poster) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Summer School: Robotic Phenotyping [July 2024] – Wageningen, The Netherlands.

Alex Elias – “Unveiling Trust Dynamics with a Mobile Service Robot: Exploring Various Interaction Styles for an Agricultural Task” (poster) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Summer School: Robotic Phenotyping [July 2024] – Wageningen, The Netherlands.

Yi Zhang – “Virtual model control for compliant reaching under uncertainties” (poster) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Summer School: Robotic Phenotyping [July 2024] – Wageningen, The Netherlands.

Vijja Wichitwechkarn – “Towards Data-Driven Indoor Agriculture” (poster) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Summer School: Robotic Phenotyping [July 2024] – Wageningen, The Netherlands.

Andrew Simpson – “Greenhouse Miniature Robotics” (poster) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Summer School: Robotic Phenotyping [July 2024] – Wageningen, The Netherlands.

Jack Bradley – “Quantifying functional lifetime of genetically modified microbes in bioproduction” (poster) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Summer School: Robotic Phenotyping [July 2024] – Wageningen, The Netherlands.

James Heselden – “Title Unknown” (poster) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Summer School: Robotic Phenotyping [July 2024] – Wageningen, The Netherlands.

Emlyn Williams – “Pretrained Visual Representations for Reinforcement Learning” (poster) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Summer School: Robotic Phenotyping [July 2024] – Wageningen, The Netherlands.

Grey Churchill – “Title Unknown” (poster) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Summer School: Robotic Phenotyping [July 2024] – Wageningen, The Netherlands.

Afsaneh Karami – “Jacobi Center-Surround Retinex and Gauss-seidel Retinex” (poster) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Summer School: Robotic Phenotyping [July 2024] – Wageningen, The Netherlands.

Xumin Gao – “Automatic aphid counting based on deep learning and robotics technology in unstructured agriculture environments” (poster) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Summer School: Robotic Phenotyping [July 2024] – Wageningen, The Netherlands.

Andrew Perrett – “Title Unknown” (poster) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Summer School: Robotic Phenotyping [July 2024] – Wageningen, The Netherlands.

Kyle Fogarty – “Neural Geometry Processing” (poster) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Summer School: Robotic Phenotyping [July 2024] – Wageningen, The Netherlands.

Jack Foster – “Fast Machine Unlearning Without Retraining Through Selective Synaptic Dampening” (poster) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Summer School: Robotic Phenotyping [July 2024] – Wageningen, The Netherlands.

Haihui Yan – “3D Printing Soft Robotic Grippers for Automated Strawberry Harvesting” (poster) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Summer School: Robotic Phenotyping [July 2024] – Wageningen, The Netherlands.

Charalampos Matsantonis – “New Geometric Algebra Techniques for Problems In Computer Vision” (poster) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Summer School: Robotic Phenotyping [July 2024] – Wageningen, The Netherlands.

Paul-David Zuercher – “Title Unknown” (poster) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Summer School: Robotic Phenotyping [July 2024] – Wageningen, The Netherlands.

Bethan Moncur – “Supporting the implementation of automation in food manufacturing” (poster) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Summer School: Robotic Phenotyping [July 2024] – Wageningen, The Netherlands.

Harry Rogers – “Q&A for Industry Sponsors” (oral) – UKRI AI Centre for Doctoral Training in Sustainable Understandable agri-food Systems Transformed by Artificial INtelligence (SUSTAIN) Industry Event [June 2024] – Online.

Bethan Moncur – “How boundary objects facilitate knowledge  integration in small groups” (oral) – International Society for Professional Innovation Management (ISPIM) Innovation Conference 2024 [June 2024] – Tallinn, Estonia.

Harry Rogers – “Closing the Loop on Precision Spraying” (oral) – Sensor CDT Challenge Mentor Event [June 2024] – Cambridge, UK.

Afsaneh Karami – “Unifying Path and Center-Surround Retinex Algorithms” (oral) – London Imaging Meeting (LIM) 2024: Image capture, from photons to photos [June 2024] – London, UK.

James Bennett – “Even Simpler Tone Curves” (oral) – London Imaging Meeting (LIM) 2024: Image capture, from photons to photos [June 2024] – London, UK.

Harry Rogers – “Deep Learning for Precision Agriculture: Post-Spraying Evaluation and Deposition Estimation” (oral) – University of East Anglia Computing Sciences Postgraduate Research Day 2024 [June 2024] – Norwich, UK.

James Heselden – “Unified Mapping Standards for Robotic Systems: Enhancing Interoperability and Efficiency Across Diverse Environments” (oral) – IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2024 [May 2024] – Yokohama, Japan.

Amie Owen – “Title Unknown” (oral) – All Party Parliamentary Engineering Group event at the House of Lords [May 2024] – London, UK.

Garry Clawson – “Designing Food Supply Chain for Nutrient Delivery and Traceability” (oral) – Cambridge Agri-Food Supply Chain Resilience Conference 2024 [May 2024] – Cambridge, UK.

Jack Foster – “Loss-Free Machine Unlearning” (poster) – International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2024 [May 2024] – Vienna, Austria.

Paul-David Zuercher – “Title Unknown” (oral) – CIRP CMS [May 2024] – Povoa de Varzim, Portugal.

Rachel Russell – “Baselines for prioritization of epidemic control” (poster) – International Epidemiology Workshop 2024 [April 2024] – Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil.

Emlyn Williams – “Learning Robust Rewards Functions from Video Demonstrations” (poster) – Machine Learning Summer School (MLSS) 2024 [March 2024] – Okinawa, Japan.

Elijah Almanzor – “Inverse Dynamics Control of Musculoskeletal Structures using Hebbian Based Sensory-Motor Coordination” (oral) – International Conference on Embodied Intelligence 2024 [March 2024] – Online.

Yi Zhang – “Virtual model control for compliant reaching under uncertainties” (oral) – International Conference on Embodied Intelligence 2024 [March 2024] – Online.

Harry Rogers – “Closing the Loop on Precision Spraying” (oral) – University of East Anglia Weekly Seminar Series [March 2024] – Norwich, UK.

Jack Foster – “Fast Machine Unlearning Without Retraining Through Selective Synaptic Dampening” (poster) – The 38th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-24) [February 2024] – Vancouver, Canada.

Xumin Gao – “Automatic Aphid Counting Based on Deep Learning in Unstructured Agriculture Environments” (oral) – BeetTech24 [February 2024] – Newmarket, UK.

Amie Owen – “Agents, Multi-Agent systems and Simulation tools and techniques” (oral) – Campden BRI Knowledge Exchange Session [February 2024] – Chipping Campden, UK.

Harry Rogers – “Title Unknown” (oral) – Syngenta industry visit [December 2023] – Bracknell, UK.

Bethan Moncur – “Perceptions of manufacturing and the industrial metaverse” (oral) – InterAct Seminar [December 2023] – Cambridge, UK.

Prabuddhi Wariyapperuma – “Human detection and body posture recognition for human-robot collaborative applications” (poster) – IEEE UK and Ireland Young Professionals Postgraduate STEM Symposium [November 2023] – Newcastle, UK.

Harry Rogers – “Evaluating the Use of Interpretable Quantized Convolutional Neural Networks for Resource-Constrained Deployment” (oral) – International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (KDIR) [November 2023] – Rome, Italy.

James Bennett – “Simplifying Tone Curves for Image Enhancement” (oral) – 31st Color and Imaging Conference [November 2023] – Paris, France.

Mazvydas Gudelis – “Computer Vision Pipeline for Automated Antarctic Krill Analysis” (oral) – British Machine Vision Association Conference 2023 [November 2023] – Aberdeen, UK.

Harry Rogers – “Title Unknown” (oral) – Syngenta industry visit [October 2023] – Bracknell, UK.

Calvin John – “Title Unknown” (oral) – CHC Tech industry visit [October 2023] – Norwich, UK.

Roopika Ravikanna – “Title Unknown” (oral) – Lincoln Centre for Autonomous Systems (L-CAS) General Meeting [October 2023] – Lincoln, UK.

Elijah Almanzor – “Static Shape Control of Soft Continuum Robots using Deep Visual Inverse Kinematics Models” – International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) [October 2023] – Detroit, USA.

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2022/23

Amie Owen – “Intelligent Automation For Hygiene Maintenance” (poster) – Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS) 2023 / AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2023 / Joint Robotics CDT Annual Conference 2023 [September 2023] – Cambridge, UK.

Grzegorz Sochacki – “Closed-Loop Robotic Cooking of Soups with Multi-modal Taste Feedback” (oral) – Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS) 2023 / AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2023 / Joint Robotics CDT Annual Conference 2023 [September 2023] – Cambridge, UK.

Charalampos Matsantonis – “A Geometric Algebra Solution to the 3D Registration Problem” (oral) – Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS) 2023 / AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2023 / Joint Robotics CDT Annual Conference 2023 [September 2023] – Cambridge, UK.

Harry Rogers – “An Automated Precision Spraying Evaluation System” (oral) – Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS) 2023 / AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2023 / Joint Robotics CDT Annual Conference 2023 [September 2023] – Cambridge, UK.

Bradley Hurst – “An assessment of self-supervised learning for data efficient potato instance segmentation” (oral) – Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS) 2023 / AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2023 / Joint Robotics CDT Annual Conference 2023 [September 2023] – Cambridge, UK.

Roopika Ravikanna – “Smart Parking System Using Heuristic Optimization For Autonomous Transportation Robots In Agriculture” (oral) – Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS) 2023 / AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2023 / Joint Robotics CDT Annual Conference 2023 [September 2023] – Cambridge, UK.

Yi Zhang – “Controller-based Reinforcement Learning in Robotics Manipulation” (poster) – Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS) 2023 / AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2023 / Joint Robotics CDT Annual Conference 2023 [September 2023] – Cambridge, UK.

Karoline Heiwolt – “Statistical shape representations for temporal registration of plant components in 3D” (poster) – Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS) 2023 / AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2023 / Joint Robotics CDT Annual Conference 2023 [September 2023] – Cambridge, UK.

Grzegorz Sochacki – “Improving Robotic Taste Performance in Classification Task with Mastication” (poster) – Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS) 2023 / AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2023 / Joint Robotics CDT Annual Conference 2023 [September 2023] – Cambridge, UK.

Grey Churchill – “Iterative Particle Swarm Optimisation–Hyperparameter Tuning” (poster) – Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS) 2023 / AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2023 / Joint Robotics CDT Annual Conference 2023 [September 2023] – Cambridge, UK.

Vijja Wichitwechkarn – “Making MACARONS” (poster) – Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS) 2023 / AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2023 / Joint Robotics CDT Annual Conference 2023 [September 2023] – Cambridge, UK.

Andrew Perrett – “Addressing geographical domain shift for quantification of UK road verge biodiversity” (poster) – Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS) 2023 / AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2023 / Joint Robotics CDT Annual Conference 2023 [September 2023] – Cambridge, UK.

Xumin Gao – “Automatic Aphid Counting Based on The Yellow Water Pan Trap Imagery and Deep Learning” (poster) – Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS) 2023 / AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2023 / Joint Robotics CDT Annual Conference 2023 [September 2023] – Cambridge, UK.

Charalampos Matsantonis – “Characteristic Multivector Fitting of Two 3D Point Sets” (poster) – Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS) 2023 / AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2023 / Joint Robotics CDT Annual Conference 2023 [September 2023] – Cambridge, UK.

William Rohde – “Precision Agriculture: Controlling Crop Growth” (poster) – Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS) 2023 / AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2023 / Joint Robotics CDT Annual Conference 2023 [September 2023] – Cambridge, UK.

Harry Rogers – “Closing the Loop on Precision Spraying” (poster) – Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS) 2023 / AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2023 / Joint Robotics CDT Annual Conference 2023 [September 2023] – Cambridge, UK.

Paul-David Zuercher – “Optimising Immersive Assistance Systems for Managing Automated Manufacturing Operations with Limited Resources” (poster) – Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS) 2023 / AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2023 / Joint Robotics CDT Annual Conference 2023 [September 2023] – Cambridge, UK.

Bradley Hurst – “Enhancing Instance Segmentation with MultitaskLearning: Integrating Mask R-CNN with Self Supervise Tasks” (poster) – Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS) 2023 / AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2023 / Joint Robotics CDT Annual Conference 2023 [September 2023] – Cambridge, UK.

Prabuddhi Wariyapperuma – “Human detection and body posture recognition for human-robot collaborative applications” (poster) – Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS) 2023 / AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2023 / Joint Robotics CDT Annual Conference 2023 [September 2023] – Cambridge, UK.

Willow Mandil – “Combining Visual and Tactile Sensation to Enhance Physical Robot Interactions” (poster) – Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS) 2023 / AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2023 / Joint Robotics CDT Annual Conference 2023 [September 2023] – Cambridge, UK.

Kyle Fogarty – “Neutral Geometry Processing for 3D Natural Structure Modelling” (poster) – Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS) 2023 / AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2023 / Joint Robotics CDT Annual Conference 2023 [September 2023] – Cambridge, UK.

Mazvydas Gudelis – “Deep Learning for Antarctic Krill staging and morphology analysis from high resolution image pairs” (poster) – Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS) 2023 / AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2023 / Joint Robotics CDT Annual Conference 2023 [September 2023] – Cambridge, UK.

Calvin John – “Robotic Waypoint Coverage Under Soft Parallel Path Constraints” (poster) – Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS) 2023 / AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2023 / Joint Robotics CDT Annual Conference 2023 [September 2023] – Cambridge, UK.

Afsaneh Karami – “Training strategies for domain generalisation in object detection for autonomous driving” (poster) – Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS) 2023 / AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2023 / Joint Robotics CDT Annual Conference 2023 [September 2023] – Cambridge, UK.

James Bennett – “Simplifying Tone Curves for Image Enhancement” (poster) – Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS) 2023 / AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2023 / Joint Robotics CDT Annual Conference 2023 [September 2023] – Cambridge, UK.

Jack Bradley – “Fabrication of bioreactor module, inline bacterial growth sensing and the inclusion of µcosminline sensing” (poster) – Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS) 2023 / AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2023 / Joint Robotics CDT Annual Conference 2023 [September 2023] – Cambridge, UK.

Bethan Moncur – “Deciding to Implement Emerging Technologies: the Use of Digital Technologies in Planning the Implementation of Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS) in Food Manufacturing Firms” (poster) – Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS) 2023 / AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2023 / Joint Robotics CDT Annual Conference 2023 [September 2023] – Cambridge, UK.

Roopika Ravikanna – “Smart Parking System Using Heuristic Optimization For Autonomous Transportation Robots In Agriculture” (poster) – Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS) 2023 / AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2023 / Joint Robotics CDT Annual Conference 2023 [September 2023] – Cambridge, UK.

James Heselden – “Spatially-Decentralised Coordination for Agricultural Fleets” (poster) – Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS) 2023 / AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2023 / Joint Robotics CDT Annual Conference 2023 [September 2023] – Cambridge, UK.

Rachell Russell – “Integrating Epidemiological Modelling with Reinforcement Learning for Effective Controls of Invasive Plant Disease” (poster) – Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS) 2023 / AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2023 / Joint Robotics CDT Annual Conference 2023 [September 2023] – Cambridge, UK.

Rachel Russell – “Skid-steer friction calibration protocol for digital twin creation” (poster) – Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS) 2023 / AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2023 / Joint Robotics CDT Annual Conference 2023 [September 2023] – Cambridge, UK.

Callum Lennox – “Real-time vision-based spot spraying development for high efficiency and precision weed management” (poster) – Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS) 2023 / AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2023 / Joint Robotics CDT Annual Conference 2023 [September 2023] – Cambridge, UK.

Emlyn Williams – “Simulation of Collective Bernoulli-Ball System for Characterizing Dynamic Self-stability” (poster) – Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS) 2023 / AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2023 / Joint Robotics CDT Annual Conference 2023 [September 2023] – Cambridge, UK.

Jack Foster – “Uncertainty-Guided Multi-Agent Continual Learning for Food Supply-Chain Knowledge Graph Completion” (poster) – Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS) 2023 / AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2023 / Joint Robotics CDT Annual Conference 2023 [September 2023] – Cambridge, UK.

Alex Elias – “Co-Creation & Trust to Address Regulatory, Ethical and Interaction Challenges of HRI Adoption” (poster) – Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS) 2023 / AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2023 / Joint Robotics CDT Annual Conference 2023 [September 2023] – Cambridge, UK.

Andrew Simpson – “Scaling the Spheres: Exploring the Impact of Physical Size on the Performance of Spherical Robots in Agricultural Settings” (poster) – Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS) 2023 / AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2023 / Joint Robotics CDT Annual Conference 2023 [September 2023] – Cambridge, UK.

Garry Clawson – “Designing Food Supply Chain for Nutritional Delivery and Traceability” (poster) – Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS) 2023 / AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2023 / Joint Robotics CDT Annual Conference 2023 [September 2023] – Cambridge, UK.

Elijah Almanzor – “Comparative study of hand-tracking and traditional control interfaces for remote palpation” (poster) – Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS) 2023 / AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2023 / Joint Robotics CDT Annual Conference 2023 [September 2023] – Cambridge, UK.

Elijah Almanzor – “Shape Control of Soft Continuum Robots Using Drawn Images” (poster) – Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS) 2023 / AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2023 / Joint Robotics CDT Annual Conference 2023 [September 2023] – Cambridge, UK.

Elijah Almanzor – “Rapid Development and Performance Evaluation of a Potato Planting Robot” (poster) – Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS) 2023 / AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2023 / Joint Robotics CDT Annual Conference 2023 [September 2023] – Cambridge, UK.

Bradley Hurst – “Title Unknown” (oral) – Lincoln Centre for Autonomous Systems (L-CAS) General Meeting [September 2023] – Online.

Harry Rogers – “An Agricultural Precision Sprayer Deposit Identification System” (oral) – 19th IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (IEEE CASE 2023) [August 2023] – Auckland, New Zealand.

Rachel Russell – “Integrating Reinforcement Learning and Epidemiological Models for Disease Control Optimisation with Limited Information” (oral) – 12th International Congress of Plant Pathology: ICPP Satellite Event 2023 [August 2023] – Lyon, France.

Bethan Moncur – “Augmented Reality to Reduce Cognitive Load in Operational Decision-Making” (oral) – 25th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII2023) [July 2023] – Copenhagen, Denmark.

Jack Foster – “Variational collaboration: How, when, and from whom to learn in a complex supply chain network” (oral) – Alan Turing Workshop on Firm-level Supply Network Reconstruction [July 2023] – Cambridge, UK.

Bethan Moncur – “Using Value Stream Mapping to Integrate Multiple Perspectives in Manufacturing Process Innovation” (poster) – The International Society for Professional Innovation Management (ISPIM) Innovation Conference 2023: Innovation and Circular Economy [June 2023] – Ljubljana, Slovenia.

William Rohde – “Lettuce modelling for growth control in precision agriculture” (oral) – European Control Conference (ECC) 2023 [June 2023] – Online.

Charalampos Matsantonis – “The applications of Geometric Algebra in interpreting visual information for advanced computer vision technologies” (ORAL) – 13th International Conference on Clifford Algebras and Their Applications in Mathematical Physics [June 2023] – Holon, Israel.

Karoline Heiwolt – “Statistical shape representations for temporal registration of plant components in 3D” (poster) – International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2023 [June 2023] – London, UK.

Rachel Russell – “Reinforcement Learning for Control of Invasive Plant Diseases” (oral) – University of Cambridge Plant Sciences Departmental Seminar [May 2023] – Cambridge, UK.

Garry Clawson – “Designing Food Supply Chain for Nutrient Delivery and Traceability” (oral) – Cambridge Agri-Food Supply Chain Resilience Conference 2023 [May 2023] – Cambridge, UK.

Jack Foster – “Towards Robust Continual Learning with Bayesian Adaptive Moment Estimation” (oral) – Dyson Farming industry visit [May 2023] – Lincoln, UK.

Rachel Russell – “Can we use Machine Learning to Improve Control of Invasive Plant Diseases?” (oral) – Accelerate AI in Biological Science workshop [May 2023] – Cambridge, UK.

Harry Rogers – “An Automated Agricultural Precision Sprayer Identification And Localisation Evaluation System” (poster) – University of East Anglia Computing Sciences Postgraduate Showcase Day 2023 [May 2023] – Norwich, UK.

James Bennett – “Simplifying tone curves for image enhancement” (poster) – University of East Anglia Computing Sciences Postgraduate Showcase Day 2023 [May 2023] – Norwich, UK.

Mazvydas Gudelis – “Title unknown” (poster) – University of East Anglia Computing Sciences Postgraduate Showcase Day 2023 [May 2023] – Norwich, UK.

Jack Foster – “Can AI’s Learn From Each Other?” (oral) – University of Cambridge Corpus Christi College Engineering Masterclass [May 2023] – Cambridge, UK.

Garry Clawson – “Designing Food Supply Chain for Nutritional Delivery and Traceability” (poster) – University of Cambridge’s Institute for Manufacturing First Year PhD Conference 2023 [May 2023] – Cambridge, UK.

Bethan Moncur – “Integrating Multiple Perspectives in Technology Management Decisions” (poster) – University of Cambridge’s Institute for Manufacturing First Year PhD Conference 2023 [May 2023] – Cambridge, UK.

Garry Clawson – “A Technology Readiness Level for Blockchain” (oral) – Association for Computing  Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP) Symposium on Applied Computing 2023 [March 2023] – Online.

Samuel Carter, Kyle Fogarty, Bradley Hurst, Charalampos Matsantonis, Rachel Russell, Andrew Simpson & Haihui Yan – “Team Toast” (oral) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Summer School 2023 [March 2023] – Lincoln, UK.

James Bennett, Mazvydas Gudelis, Calvin John, Callum Lennox, Andrew Perrett, Vijja Wichitwechkarn, Haihui Yan & Paul-David Zuercher – “Serving a Full English Breakfast” (oral) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Summer School 2023 [March 2023] – Lincoln, UK.

Elijah Almanzor, Jack Foster, Afsaneh Karami, Roopika Ravikanna, William Rohde, Grzegorz Sochacki, Emlyn Williams – “Does Baxter Dream of Electric Beans?” (oral) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Summer School 2023 [March 2023] – Lincoln, UK.

Jack Bradley, Sean Chow, Alex Elias, Xumin Gao, Bethan Moncur, Harry Rogers & Prabuddhi Wariyapperuma – “The Preparation and dish up of an English Breakfast with Robots” (oral) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Summer School 2023 [March 2023] – Lincoln, UK

Xumin Gao – “Automatic Aphid Counting Based on the Yellow Water Pan Trap Imagery and Deep Learning” (poster) – University of Lincoln Postgraduate Research Showcase 2023 [February 2023] – Lincoln, UK.

James Bennett – “Title Unknown” (oral) – Antobot industry visit [January 2023].

Garry Clawson – “Applications of Distributed Ledger Technologies in Robotics” (oral) – 2023 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integrations (SII 2023) [January 2023] – Online.

Harry Rogers – “Explainable Droplet Quantification System for Precision Sprayer Applications” (poster) – University of East Anglia Computing Sciences Postgraduate Showcase Day 2022 [October 2022] – Norwich, UK.

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2021/22

Roopika Ravikanna – “Farm robots, fruit-picking and human-robot interaction” (oral) – UKRAS Robot Talk Podcast [September 2022] – Online.

Karoline Heiwolt – “Temporal Registration of Plant Parts in 3D” (oral) – 7th International Plant Phenotyping Symposium (IPPS) [September 2022] – Wageningen, The Netherlands.

Alex Elias – “Exploring Trust Toward TIAGo’s Behavior During the Completion of an Agriculture-Related Task” (poster) – East Midlands ECR Robotics and Autonomous Systems Networking Event [September 2022] – Nottingham, UK.

Garry Clawson – “Blockchain Crop Assurance and Localisation” (poster) – Towards Autonomous Robotics Systems (TAROS) Conference 2022 [September 2022] – Oxford, UK.

Amie Owen – “Towards Autonomous Task Allocation Using Social Rob Team in a Food Factory” (poster) – UKRAS 2022 Conference: “Robotics for Unconstrained Environments” [August 2022] – Aberystwyth, UK.

Garry Clawson – “Blockchain Crop Assurance and Localisation” (oral) – UKRAS 2022 Conference: “Robotics for Unconstrained Environments” [August 2022] – Aberystwyth, UK.

Garry Clawson – “Sub-SPARC: Investigation of Imperfect Teachers” (poster) – UKRAS 2022 Conference: “Robotics for Unconstrained Environments” [August 2022] – Aberystwyth, UK.

Elijah Almanzor, Karoline Heiwolt, Callum Lennox, Samuel Carter & Emlyn Williams – “Reel-Bot” (oral) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Summer School 2022 [July 2022] – Norwich, UK.

Grey Churchill, Bradley Hurst & Harry Rogers – “Fish Sorting: A whatsinyour.net solution” (oral) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Summer School 2022 [July 2022] – Norwich, UK.

Garry Clawson, Jack Foster, Bethan Moncur & Vijja Wichitwechkarn – “Poisson Distributions: Fisheries for the Future” (oral) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Summer School 2022 [July 2022] – Norwich, UK.

Kyle Fogarty, William Rohde & Grzegorz Sochacki – “Stand-Alone, Easy-to-Scale and Low-Overhead Robotic Fish & Chips Dark Kitchen” (oral) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Summer School 2022 [July 2022] – Norwich, UK.

James Bennett, Amie Owen, Roopika Ravikanna, Rachel Russell & Nikolaos Tsagkopoulos – “With machine learning, data fusion and an understanding of the marine environment to guide fishers to the best catch” (oral) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Summer School 2022 [July 2022] – Norwich, UK.

Amie Owen – “Towards the Application of Multi-Agent Task Allocation to Hygiene Tasks in the Food Production Industry” (oral) – International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (PAAMS) 2022 [July 2022] – L’Aquila, Italy.

Willow Mandil – “Action Conditioned Tactile Prediction: case study on slip prediction” (oral) – Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2022 [July 2022] – New York, USA.

Roopika Ravikanna – “The Way We Eat” (oral) – TEDx Brayford Pool Salon [July 2022] – Lincoln, UK.

Jack Foster – “Uncertainty-Guided Collaboration for Multi-Agent Precision Agriculture” (oral) – Dyson Farming industry visit [July 2022] – Lincoln, UK.

James Bennett, Garry Clawson, Kyle Fogarty & Bethan Moncur “Towards Open Source Hardware Robotic Woodwind: an Internal Duct Flute Player” (oral) – International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) 2022 [July 2022] – Online.

Harry Rogers – “Explainable Droplet Recognition System for Precision Sprayer Applications” (poster) – Joint Robotics and Autonomous Systems CDT Conference 2022 [June 2022] – Bristol, UK.

Alex Elias – “Exploring trust towards TIAGo’s behaviour during the completion of an agriculture-related task” (poster) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2022 [June 2022] – Lincoln, UK.

Bethan Moncur – “Augmented Reality to Help Humans Solve Complex Problems” (poster) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2022 [June 2022] – Lincoln, UK.

Callum Lennox – “Synthetic Image Generation Pipeline for Weed Detection in Fields” (poster) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2022 [June 2022] – Lincoln, UK.

Elijah Almanzor – “Automated Fruit Quality Testing using an Electrical Impedance Tomography-Enabled Soft Robotic Gripper” (oral) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2022 [June 2022] – Lincoln, UK.

Emlyn Williams – “Inverse Reinforcement Learning Applied to the Correspondence Problem” (poster) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2022 [June 2022] – Lincoln, UK.

Garry Clawson – “Applications of Distributed Ledger Technologies in Robotics” (poster) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2022 [June 2022] – Lincoln, UK.

Grzegorz Sochacki – “Implementation of taste-enabled robotic chef” (oral) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2022 [June 2022] – Lincoln, UK.

Haihui Yan – “3D Printing Soft Robotic Grippers for Automated Strawberry Harvesting” (oral) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2022 [June 2022] – Lincoln, UK.

Charalampos Matsantonis – “New techniques for problems in vision and robotics using Geometric Algebra” (oral) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2022 [June 2022] – Lincoln, UK.

Samuel Carter – “Learning robot navigation from demonstrations” – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2022 [June 2022] – Lincoln, UK.

Harry Rogers – “Explainable Droplet Recognition System for Precision Sprayer Applications” (oral) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference [June 2022] – Lincoln, UK.

Jack Foster – “Uncertainty-Guided Collaboration in Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning” (oral) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2022 [June 2022] – Lincoln, UK.

Grzegorz Sochacki – “Sensorized Compliant Robot Gripper for Estimating the Cooking Time of Boil-Cooked Vegetables” (oral) – International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IROS) 2022 [June 2022] – Online.

James Bennett – “Developing a Line-scanning Hyperspectral Imaging System for Monitoring Plant Status” (poster) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2022 [June 2022] – Lincoln, UK.

Kyle Fogarty – “Surface reconstruction of point clouds” (poster) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2022 [June 2022] – Lincoln, UK.

Mazvydas Gudelis – “Developing a Computer Vision pipeline for automated analysis of Antarctic Krill” (oral) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2022 [June 2022] – Lincoln, UK.

Paul-David Zuercher – “Augmenting autonomous systems to improve agronomy effectiveness” (poster) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference [June 2022] – Lincoln, UK.

Rachel Russell – “Improved Control of Invasive Plant Disease Epidemics Using Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes” (poster) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference [June 2022] – Lincoln, UK.

Vijja Wichitwechkarn – “Making MACARONS: Modular Automated Crop Array Online System” (poster) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference [June 2022] – Lincoln, UK.

William Rohde – “Regulation of plant growth in a field as a multi-agent control problem” (oral) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference [June 2022] – Lincoln, UK.

Xumin Gao – “Automatic aphid counting based on yellow water pan trap imagery and deep learning” (poster) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference [June 2022] – Lincoln, UK.

Jack Foster – “Uncertainty-Guided Collaboration for Multi-Agent Precision Agriculture” (oral) – University of Cambridge Corpus Christie College Dyson Farming Industry visit [May 2022] – Cambridge, UK.

Paul-David Zuercher – “Optimising virtual reality training in industry using crowdsourcing” (oral) – 12th Conference On Learning Factories (CLF) 2022 [April 2022] – Singapore, Singapore.

Grzegorz Sochacki – “Title Unknown” (oral) – Robosoft 2022 [April 2022] – Edinburgh, UK.

Amie Owen – “Intelligent automation for hygiene maintenance in food production settings” (oral) – Society of Food Hygiene & Technology (SOFHT) Innovation Day [March 2022] – York, UK.

Grzegorz Sochacki – “Theoretical Framework for Human-Like Robotic Taste with Reference to Nutritional Needs” (oral) – International Conference on Embodied Intelligence 2022 [March 2022]- Cambridge, UK.

Amie Owen – “Intelligent Automation for Hygiene Maintenance in Food Production Settings” (oral) – Campden BRI Processing, Operations and Preservation Member Interest Group meeting [March 2022] – Online.

Kyle Fogarty – “An Introduction to Uncertainty Quantification” (oral) – EPSRC CDT in Modelling of Heterogeneous Systems (HetSys) Computational Toolkit Seminar Series [March 2022] – Online.

Kyle Fogarty -“Monte Carlo methods for Uncertainty Quantification” (oral) – EPSRC CDT in Modelling of Heterogeneous Systems (HetSys) Computational Toolkit Seminar Series [March 2022] – Online.

William Rohde – “Precision Agriculture for Iceberg Lettuce” (poster) – University of Cambridge Department of Engineering Division F Conference [March 2022] – Cambridge, UK.

Charalampos Matsantonis – “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” (oral) – University of Cambridge Researcher Development Training Course Session [November 2021] – Cambridge, UK.

Harry Rogers – “Extending an Open Source Hardware agri-robot with simulation and plant re-identification” (oral) – Joint Robotics and Autonomous Systems CDT Conference 2021 [October 2021] – Online.

Roopika Ravikanna – “Maximising availability of transportation robots through intelligent allocation of parking spaces” (oral) – Joint Robotics and Autonomous Systems CDT Conference 2021 [October 2021] – Online.

Karoline Heiwolt – “Deep Semantic Segmentation of 3D plant point clouds” (oral) – Joint Robotics and Autonomous Systems CDT Conference 2021 [October 2021] – Online.

Grzegorz Sochacki – “Closed-Loop Robotic Cooking of Scrambled Eggs with a Salinity-based ‘Taste’ Sensor” (oral) – International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2021 [October 2021] – Online.

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2020/21

Karoline Heiwolt – “Deep Semantic Segmentation of 3D plant point clouds” (oral) – Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS) Annual Conference 2021 [September 2021] – Online.

Roopika Ravikanna – “Maximising availability of transportation robots through intelligent allocation of parking spaces” (poster) – Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS) Annual Conference 2021 [September 2021] – Online.

Karoline Heiwolt – “Using deep learning for semantic segmentation of 3D plant point clouds” (oral) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2021 [July 2021] – Online.

Karoline Heiwolt & Ni Wang – “RAS Counter: Non-invasive yield prediction for vineyards” (oral) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2021 [July 2021] – Online.

Bradley Hurst – “Automated Counting of Grapes” (oral) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2021 [July 2021] – Online.

Callum Lennox & Haihui Yan – “Automatic Detection of Black Rot in Images of Grapes” (oral) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2021 [July 2021] – Online.

Elijah Almanzor – “Visual perception for harvesting grapes” (oral) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2021 [July 2021] – Online.

Grzegorz Sochacki – “Closed Loop Action for Robotic Chef Implementation” (oral) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2021 [July 2021] – Online.

Jack Foster & Grzegorz Sochacki – “Visual Serving for Human Tracking and Counting” (oral) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2021 [July 2021] – Online.

Mazvydas Gudelis & Amie Owen – “Computer vision for quality assessment of apples” (oral) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2021 [July 2021] – Online.

Roopika Ravikanna – “Allocation of Parking Spaces for Autonomous Agricultural Robots” (oral) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2021 [July 2021] – Online.

Willow Mandil – “Tactile prediction for controlled manipulation” (oral) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2021 [July 2021] – Online.

Roopika Ravikanna – “Maximising availability of fruit transportation robots through intelligent allocation of parking spaces” (oral) – Festival of Fresh 2021 [July 2021] – Online.

Roopika Ravikanna – “Task Allocation with Manipulative Dynamic Auctioneering for Multi Robot Systems” (oral) – UKRAS21 Conference: “Robotics at Home” [June 2021] – Online.

Roopika Ravikanna – “The perks in studying robotics” (oral) – University of Lincoln’s International Women in Engineering Day Showcase 2021 [June 2021] – Online

Karoline Heiwolt, Harry Rogers & Ni Wang – “RAS Counter: Non-invasive yield prediction for vineyards” (oral) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Summer School 2021 [June 2021] – Online.

Jack Foster & Grzegorz Sochacki – “Visual Serving for Human Tracking and Counting” (oral) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Summer School 2021 [June 2021] – Online.

Mazvydas Gudelis & Amie Owen – “Computer vision for quality assessment of apples” (oral) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Summer School 2021 [June 2021] – Online.

Bradley Hurst & Roopika Ravikanna – “Automated Counting of Grapes” (oral) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Summer School 2021 [June 2021] – Online.

Elijah Almanzor, Joshua Davy & Willow Mandil – “Visual perception for harvesting grapes” (oral) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Summer School 2021 [June 2021] – Online.

Grey Churchill, Callum Lennox, Charalampos Matsantonis & Haihui Yan – “Automatic Detection of Black Rot in Images of Grapes” (oral) – AgriFoRwArdS CDT Summer School 2021 [June 2021] – Online.

Grzegorz Sochacki – “Compliant Sensorized Testing Device to Provide a Model Based Estimation of the Cooking Time of Vegetables” (oral) – International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS) 2021 [June 2021] – Online.

Willow Mandil – “Modelling Soft Fruit Clusters for Controlled Harvesting” (oral) – International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) Task-Informed Grasping Workshop-III [May 2021] – Online.

Harry Rogers – “Robotics Manipulators in Agriculture: A Brief Review” (oral) – International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) Task-Informed Grasping Workshop-III [May 2021] – Online.

Jack Foster & Mazvydas Gudelis – “Perception in Agri-food Manipulation: A Review” (oral) – International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) Task-Informed Grasping Workshop-III [May 2021] – Online.

Joshua Davy – “Current Advances in Hardware for Agri-Food Manipulation – A Review” (oral) – International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) Task-Informed Grasping Workshop-III [May 2021] – Online.

Grzegorz Sochacki – “Touch, smell, taste and sound sensing in robotic kitchen” (oral) – International Workshop on Embodied Intelligence 2021 [March 2021] – Online.

Karoline Heiwolt – “4D Crop Modelling” (oral) – University of Lincoln Postgraduate Research Showcase 2021 [February 2021] – Online.

Karoline Heiwolt – “Semantic-assisted 4D crop mapping” (oral) – Lincoln Agri-Robotics Mini Conference 2020 [December 2020] – Online.

Karoline Heiwolt – “Semantic Segmentation of Plant Leaves from 3D Point Clouds using Deep Learning” (oral) – Lincoln Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 2020 [October 2020] – Online.

Willow Mandil – “Investigation into Harvesting Soft Fruit Clusters” (oral) – Lincoln Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 2020 [October 2020] – Online.

Grzegorz Sochacki – “Residual Physics for Grasp Failure Prediction” (oral) – Lincoln Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 2020 [October 2020] – Online.

Roopika Ravikanna – “Task Allocation in Multi Robot Systems using Dynamic Manipulative Bidding Strategy” (oral) – Lincoln Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 2020 [October 2020] – Online.

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2019/20

Willow Mandil – “Automated Topological Mapping for Agricultural Robots” (oral) – UKRAS20 Conference: “Robots into the real world” [April 2020] – Online.

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Other Activities and Outputs

• May 2025 – Garry Clawson was a member of the organisation committee for the 3rd annual Cambridge Agri-Food Supply Chain Resilience Workshop 2025
• March 2025 to June 2025 – Andy Perrett is Research Assistant for Agri-Robotics research project.
• February 2025 – Robert Stevenson represented the AgriFoRwArdS CDT at the Lincolnshire Agricultural Society Agri-Food Careers Event, aimed at encouraging 13-18 year olds to consider a career in agri-food. Demonstrations included yolo fruit/object drawing, Trilobot roaming demonstration, Spot demonstration.
• February 2025 to July 2025 – James Heselden and Roopika Ravikanna receive funding for ‘Real-World Implementation and Economic Study on the Use of Robot Dogs in Shepherding’ project.
• February 2025 – Robbie Cato represented the AgriFoRwArdS CDT on the University of Lincoln stand at the Lincolnshire Farming Conference 2025.
• February 2025 – Kyle Fogarty and Jack Foster win 1st place for the “Future of Search” award at the AI Engine: UK University Hackathon with their Agentic Search Analytics Platform.
• February 2025 – Kyle Fogarty and Jack Foster win the “Most Beneficial through Human Hours Saved” award by Google Anthropic at the AI Engine: UK University Hackathon with their Agentic Search Analytics Platform.
• January 2025 – Prabuddhi Wariyapperuma and Omar Ali contribute to the L-CAS Human Detection/Understanding Knowledge Exchange Workshop.
• January 2025 – Robert Stevenson organised robotics workshop for University of Lincoln undergraduate students (code your own robot and play football).
• January 2025 – Omar Ali demonstrates the Tiago Robot at robotics bake sale at the University of Lincoln.
• January 2025 – Bethan Moncur volunteers at Sustainable Foods London 2025.
• December 2024 – Emmanuel Soumo is a Research Assistant in Selective Harvesting for Delicate Produce at the University of Lincoln.
• December 2024 – Liyou Zhou wins the ‘Best Student Opponent’ award at the IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing (IRC) 2024.
• December 2024 – Liyou Zhou nominated for ‘Best Student Paper’ award at the IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing (IRC) 2024.
• November 2024 – Robbie Cato is a Judge for the Robotics and Automation Awards 2024.
• November 2024 – Alex Elias leads a workshop at the International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI 2024) titled “Challenges and opportunities for the adoption and integration of Human-Robot Interaction technologies”.
• October 2024 to September 2025 – Garry Clawson is Global Supply Chain Observatory Lead at the University of Cambridge.
• October 2024 to September 2025 – Benjamin Nicolls is a Demonstrator for Big Data Analytics and Modelling (MSc module) and Parallel Programming (third year module for Computer Science) at the University of Lincoln.
• August 2024 – Robert Stevenson & Emmanuel Soumo are discussion panel members at Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS) 2024 – Discussion topic: Challenge-driven Postgraduate Training.
• March 2024 – Yi Zhang is a discussion panel member at the International Online Conference on Embodied Intelligence 2024 – Discussion topic: Self-Organised Systems.
• March 2024 – Elijah Almanzor is a discussion panel member at the International Online Conference on Embodied Intelligence 2024 – Discussion topic: Human-Centred Systems.
• January 2024 – Amie Owen completes the Lincoln Award Teacher Training.
• October 2023 to September 2024 – Andy Perrett is a Demonstration Assistant for University of Lincoln undergraduate teaching sessions.
• October 2023 to September 2024 – Prabuddhi Wariyapperuma is a Demonstrator for undergraduate lab sessions at the University of Lincoln.
• October 2023 – Yi Zhang conducts demonstrations of Foodly Robot at Hardwick and Cambourne Community Primary School.
• October 2023 – James Bennett carries out computing sciences and robotics outreach activities for mature sixth form students.
• 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.
• June 2023 – Bethan Moncur Chairs a discussion panel at the The International Society for Professional Innovation Management (ISPIM) Innovation Conference 2023: Innovation and Circular Economy – Discussion topic: Integrating different perspectives in decision-making about manufacturing process innovation.
• 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.
• November 2022 – Amie Owen, Garry Clawson, & Rachel Russell engage as members of a discussion panel at the AgriFoRwArdS CDT Open Day for potential students – Discussion topic: What is it like to be an AgriFoRwArdS Student.
• November 2022 – James Bennett is a Discussion Panel member for the AgriFoRwArdS Seminar Series – Discussion topic: Prof Harold Thimbleby’s talk “Poor research — and how to improve it”.
• 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 – Garry Clawson is a Discussion Panel member for the AgriFoRwArdS Seminar Series – Discussion topic: Prof Megan Povey’s talk “Food reassurance, sustainability, robotics and sensors”.
• June 2022 – The University of Lincoln host an open day research showcase at the Riseholme Campus.
• June 2022 – Amie Owen, Bradley Hurst, Grey Churchill, Karoline Heiwolt, Roopika Ravikanna & Willow Mandil engage as members of a discussion panel at the AgriFoRwArdS CDT Annual Conference 2022 – Discussion topic: AgriFoRwArdS PhD Research.
• May 2022 – Garry Clawson is a Discussion Panel member for the AgriFoRwArdS Seminar Series – Discussion topic: Ali Capper’s talk “Making Research Relevant to Farmers & Growers”.
• 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 – Elijah Almanzor enters the Soft Robotic Locomotion competition at Robosoft 2022.
• 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 – Roopika Ravikanna and Rachel Russell are Discussion Panel members for the AgriFoRwArdS Seminar Series – Discussion topic: Dr Ayse Kuckyilmaz’s talk “Dynamic Role Allocation and Shared Control in Human-Robot Collaborative Teamwork”.
• 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 – Amie Owen, Garry Clawson, & Rachel Russell engage as members of a discussion panel at the AgriFoRwArdS CDT Open Day for potential students – Discussion topic: What is it like to be an AgriFoRwArdS Student.
• 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 – Garry Clawson Chairs the March 2022 AgriFoRwArdS Seminar Series talk with Dr Ayse Kucukyilmaz.
• 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 – Garry Clawson is a Discussion Panel member for the AgriFoRwArdS Seminar Series – Discussion topic: Dr Mark Ryan’s talk “Ethical and Societal Considerations for the Development and Use of Agricultural Robots”.
• February 2022 – James Bennett and Rachel Russell Co-Chair the February 2022 AgriFoRwArdS Seminar Series talk with Dr Mark Ryan.
• 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 – Garry Clawson, Rachel Russell & James Bennett are Discussion Panel members for the AgriFoRwArdS Seminar Series – Discussion topic: Prof Dionysis Bochtis’ talk “The digital transformation of agricultural production – advancements, opportunities, and challenges”.
• 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 – Rachel Russell is a Discussion Panel member for the AgriFoRwArdS Seminar Series – Discussion topic: Charles Nicklin’s talk “Agricultural Engineering and the role of the IAgrE”.
• 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).F
• 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