IEEE RAS TC on Agricultural Robotics and Automation Webinar

Title: Agricultural Robotics in Chile: Challenges and Solutions in The Andes Mountains

Speakers: Fernando Auat Cheein and Miguel Torres-Torriti

Abstract: In recent years, agriculture in Chile has experienced serious challenges that have affected its productivity, such as low water reserves due to climate change, loss of arable land due to volcanic eruptions and earthquakes, and the upward trend of the mining industry. To improve productivity and competitiveness of the agricultural industry in these adverse scenarios, it becomes necessary to introduce and develop agricultural automation and sensing technologies for both primary (harvesting, seeding, fertilizing, spraying) and secondary tasks (grove supervision, weed detection, hauling, mowing). Additionally, these innovations should be implemented in a framework that takes into account information about the crop and its surroundings. In this presentation we will show how the Industrial and Autonomous Robotics Research Group and Advanced Center of Electrical and Electronic Engineering are facing the challenges of robotics in agriculture in Chile from both a research and an innovation perspective.

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