AgriFoRwArdS Outputs and Impacts

Presentations by AgriFoRwArdS Students


Presentation title

Event

Dates

Presenter

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
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 March 2022 Will Rohde
Intelligent automation for hygiene maintenance in food production settings

Campden BRI Processing, Operations and Preservation Member Interest Group meeting 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 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 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) 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

ICRA Task-Informed Grasping Workshop – III 31/05/2021 Harry Rogers
Perception in Agri-food Manipulation: A Review

ICRA Task-Informed Grasping Workshop – III 31/05/2021 Jack Foster and Mazvydas Gudelis
Modelling Soft Fruit Clusters for Controlled Harvesting

ICRA Task-Informed Grasping Workshop – III 31/05/2021 Willow Mandil
Current Advances in Hardware for Agri-Food Manipulation – A Review

ICRA 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 2020

09/10/2020

Karoline Heiwolt
Residual Physics for Grasp Failure Prediction

Lincoln Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 2020

09/10/2020

Grzegorz Sochacki
Automated Topological Mapping for Agricultural Robots

UKRAS2020 Conference: “Robots into the real world”

17/04/2020

Willow Mandil

Presentations by AgriFoRwArdS Academics


Presentation title

Event

Dates

Presenter

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 Beakfast 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
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
Robotics in Crop Care

Nanjing Agricultural University 26/05/2021 Junfeng Gao
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

 

Other Activities and Outputs


  • 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.
  • August 2022 – Dr Oorbessy Gaju represents Lincoln robotics at the exhibition stand at Cereals in Cambridge.
  • July 2022 – Dr Ravi Valluru is a member of the Future of Wheat in the UK discussion panel.
  • 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.
  • July 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.
  • 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 a visit from Boston College students to the University of Lincoln Riseholme Campus.
  • 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 – 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.
  • May 2022 – Grzegorz Sochacki is a guest on BBC Radio Berkshire, BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 5.
  • 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 – Grzegorz Sochacki chaired a breakout session at the International Workshop on Embedded Intelligence 2022.
  • 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 – 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 has worked with Professor Elizabeth Sklar on an AI Unleashed project.
  • Jack Foster and Haihui Yan featured in a promotional video for the James Dyson Foundation.
  • Simon Pearson is on the round table for Digital Catapult and the UK Government, focussed on the natural environment (including forestry, agriculture, farming, climate change and conservation.