Event Details
Agricultural robotics, advantages and disadvantages to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results on all aspects of agricultural robotics, advantages and disadvantages. It also provides a premier interdisciplinary platform for researchers, practitioners and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, and concerns as well as practical challenges encountered and solutions adopted in the fields of agricultural robotics, advantages and disadvantages.
CONTENT
Economic, Social and Environmental Drivers
- Economic and Societal Factors
- Environmental Benefits
- Soils
- Water
- Pesticides
- Electrification of farm vehicles and implements
- Precision Agriculture
- Livestock and Aquaculture
- Robotics and autonomous systems for livestock
- Robotics and autonomous systems for aquaculture
- Disadvantaged Farms
- Non-Conventional Closed (‘Vertical’) Farming
- Food Manufacturing and Processing
- Ethical Issues
Robotic Agriculture Systems
- Robotic Platforms
- Mechatronics and electronics
- Locomotion
- Manipulators
- Sensing and Perception
- Localization and mapping
- Crop monitoring
- Robotic vision
- Planning and Coordination
- Manipulation
- Human-Robot Interaction
- Human-robot collaboration
- Safe human-robot interaction
TRAINING METHODOLOGY
The training methodology combines lectures, discussions, group exercises and illustrations. Participants will gain both theoretical and practical knowledge of the topics. The emphasis is on the practical application of the topics and as a result participant will go back to the workplace with both the ability and the confidence to apply the techniques learned to their duties.
This course is available in the following locations:
Nigeria - $3500
Ghana - $6500
Rwanda - $7500
UK - $8500
USA - $8500