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A Full-day workshop at International Conference on Robotics and Automation
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This workshop is at a proposal stage (more details will be updated soon)
This workshop is supported by IEEE/RAS Technical Committees on: (1) Mobile Manipulation, (2) Agricultural Robotics & Automation, (3) Algorithms for Planning and Control of Robot Motion, (4) Soft Robotics and (5) Robot Learning.
If you require further information on support/endorsement for this workshop, please email: smghames@lincoln.ac.uk
TIG-I and II workshop IROS 2018 and RSS 2019 can be found at
https://lcas.lincoln.ac.uk/wp/tig-ii/ and https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/iros18
Abstract
Agri-food robotics is a key element for precision agriculture (and precision food production) which has been identified as a solution to the increasing demands for agri-food products due to the population growth and raised labour shortage. One of the critical challenges of agri-food robotics is grasping and manipulation of agri-food objects. This workshop aims to bring together world-leading experts in robotic grasping/manipulation applied in the agri-food sector to discuss challenges and possible approaches of agri-food manipulation, ranging from agriculture (e.g. robotic harvesting) to food production (e.g. sandwich making). The challenges involved in the agri-food tasks, such as differentiating between items (e.g. toppings) when making a sandwich or picking ripe fruits from clusters, create many interesting research questions for the robotics community. In TIG-I and TIG-II, we brought together frontiers in control and perception to discuss the general robotic manipulation problem.
This workshop, instead, will mainly focus on the research challenges, e.g. motion planning and control, robot perception, task scheduling, soft robotics and human-robot interaction in the agri-food sector. The workshop will therefore overview the state-of-the-art in agri-food robotics through invited research talks, paper and poster presentations to raise awareness about the scientific and societal challenges in the community.
Topics of interest include (but not limited to):
- Agri-food manipulation,
- Mobile manipulation,
- Data-driven manipulation for agri-food applications,
- Grasping and manipulative movements in cluttered environments,
- Motion planning/control challenges for agri-food robotics
- Tactile sensing and enhanced manipulation
- Agri-food sensing technologies
- Robotic vision challenges in agri-food applications
- Soft-Robotics for agri-food applications
- Task-oriented end-effectors: requirements and specifications
- Benchmarking and dataset for grasping and manipulation in cluttered environments
Paper submission:
Deadline: 5 May 2021 (no extension)
Notification of acceptance: 16 May 2021
Camera ready: 24 May 2021
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:
- Extended abstract (maximum 2 pages) will be accepted for poster presentation at this workshop.
- Full papers Contributed papers (maximum 6 pages) will be accepted based on their quality, originality, and relevance to the workshop. Submitted papers should not be under consideration for publication anywhere else. Submissions should follow the IEEE/RAS format.
Please submit your paper by emailing it to workshop.tig@gmail.com
Programme (tentative)
Sariah Mghames |
09:00 — 9:10 | Opening |
09:10 — 9:35 | Leveraging on learning techniques for optimal agri-robotic manipulation | |
09:40 — 10:05 |
Recent trends in robot learning |
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10:10 — 10:20 |
Coffee Break |
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10:20 — 10:45 | Robotics in the service of food making | |
10:50 — 11:15 | Food manipulation and the challenges of automating food assembly tasks – Soft Robotics | |
11:20 — 11:45 | Robotic motion planning in dynamic agriculture environments | |
11:50 — 12:15 | On the dynamics characterization of plant growth | |
— | 12:20 — 13:20 | Lunch |
13:20 — 13:45 | Vision-based robotic harvesting and pruning | |
13:50 — 14:15 | Vision on the service of robotic pruning | |
14:20 — 14:45 | Automated fruit harvesting in complex environment | |
14:50 — 15:15 | Tactile sensing: application to fruit quality control | |
15:20 — 15:45 | Visual-Tactile Geometric Reasoning | |
15:50 — 16:15 | Mobile robotics and HRI in the fruit harvesting chain | |
16:20 — 16:30 | Lightning talks of posters and papers | |
16:30 — 17:00 | Poster round and coffee break | |
17:00 — 17:25 | End-effectors for soft manipulation: application to agri-food technology | |
17:30 – 17:55 | Advances in machine learning for fruit harvesting | |
18:00 – 18:30 | Panel discussion — Closing remarks |
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Organisers
Sariah Mghames, PhD. |
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Tommaso Pardi, |
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Fumiya Iida, PhD. |
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Mehmet Dogar, PhD. |
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Amir Masoud Ghalamzan Esfahani, PhD. Associate Professor Lincoln Institute for Agri-Food Technology – Lincoln Agri Robotics University of Lincoln, United Kingdom |
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