Programme

Date: Friday, 18th of July
Place: Room Cimabue, Centro Congressi, Padova

8:45-9:00 Workshop start and welcome

9:00-9:30 Invited talk – Agricultural robotics at Bosch
Peter Biber
Corporate Research, Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany

9:30-10:00 GPS-free Localisation and Navigation of an Unmanned Ground Vehicle for Yield Forecasting in a Vineyard
Sam Marden and Mark Whitty
School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of New South Wales, Australia

10:00-10:30 On-line trajectory planning for autonomous spraying vehicles
Pablo Urcola*, Tom Duckett** and Grzegorz Cielniak**
*University of Zaragoza, Spain; **University of Lincoln, UK

10:30-11:00 A wireless recharging system for electrical agriculture robots with autonomous docking
Michele Marostica*, Marco Bullo**, Michele Moro*, Fabrizio Dughiero** and Emanuele Menegatti*
*Dept. of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Italy; **Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale, University of Padova, Italy

11:00-11:30 Coffee break

11:30-12:00 Probabilistic Near Infrared and Depth Based Crop Line Identification
Georg Halmetschlager*, Johannes Prankl*,** and Markus Vincze*
*Automation and Control Institute, Vienna University of Technology, Austria; **Josephinum Research, Wieselburg, Austria

12:00-12:30 Plant Stem Detection and Position Estimation using Machine Vision
Sebastian Haug*, Peter Biber*, Andreas Michaels* and Jörn Ostermann**
*Robert Bosch GmbH, Corporate Research, Germany; ** Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany

12:30-12:45 Closing remarks and discussions