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<p class="MsoPlainText">Hello NAPPNers: below is a webinar announcement from an IEEE technical committee, on Agricultural Robotics and Automation (AgRA). The webinars are free and open to the public, please forward to interested colleagues as appropriate.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Marija Popoviæ from the University of Bonn, Germany, will present, "Intelligent Decision-Making and Autonomy for Agricultural Robots," on Monday, August 30, 2021 at 15:00 CEST (UTC +2).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">For easy conversion to your time zone, see the converter from timeanddate.com:
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https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=AgRA+Webinar:+Marija+Popovi%C4%87+on+August+30%2C+2021+&iso=20210830T15&p1=312&ah=1</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">The webinar will be provided through Zoom, please register:
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https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/3916294821838/WN_1GWxSXSnT9u1dbIWqIbAMA</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Alternatively, you may view through YouTube live, which has a lower bandwidth requirement than Zoom. To get the link, check the technical committee's Twitter account up to 15 minutes prior to the start of the<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Webinar: <a href="https://twitter.com/AgRoboticsTC">https://twitter.com/AgRoboticsTC</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Abstract:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Recent years have seen incredible progress in robotic technologies and related fields. In agriculture, robots are rapidly replacing conventional farming methods at higher levels of precision, safety, and<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">time- and cost-efficiency. However, there is a need for new robotic algorithms to fully exploit their potential as intelligent devices in modern smart farming workflows with minimal human intervention. This talk will discuss how new
research can bridge this gap; enabling robots to sense, reason, and act by themselves to optimise the use of their limited computational resources and battery life. I will present our recent developments in informative planning and environmental mapping for
autonomous decision-making, focusing on the application of multi-robot (aerial-ground) weeding missions, and outline outstanding challenges for future work.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">All details, including the time zone converter, technical details, and presenter biography available at the AgRA TC webpage:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><a href="http://ieeeagra.com/events/webinar-august-30-2021/">http://ieeeagra.com/events/webinar-august-30-2021/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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