BIO-ROBOTICS 97
International Workshop on:
ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATED MACHINERY
FOR BIO-PRODUCTIONS,
AGRICULTURE, AGRO-FOOD PROCESSING, ENVIRONMENT=20
& MANAGEMENT
ANNOUNCEMENT & CALL FOR PAPERS
BACKGROUND
EurAgEng, the European Society of Agricultural Engineers, is promoting
specialised events to bring together experts on subjects of particular
relevance in the Agricultural Engineering community in Europe.=20
Automated machinery and robots are among them, since various
prototypes for bio-productions have been developed by research and
industry during the last decade, and numerous active projects are
known to bring actual solutions toward the market.
IFAC, the International Federation of Automation and Control, with its
specialised committee on Control in Agriculture, has a particular
interest in this area of application.
The 3rd IFAC/ ISIIS/ EurAgEng workshop on "Mathematical and Control
Applications in Agriculture and Horticulture" will be held in Hannover,
Germany, from September 28 to October 2, 1997. The previous week, and
in
conjunction with it, it has been decided to organise the
BIO-ROBOTICS 97
Workshop, on the complementary theme of "automated machinery and
robotics for bio-productions", to be held in VALENCIA (Spain) thus
timing two events on automation and control for bio-industries across
Europe.
OBJECTIVES OF BIO-ROBOTICS 97
Compared to other activities, bio-productions are defined as mainly
involving phenomena and products being biological in nature:
agriculture and forest, food and agro-industrial processing,
landscape/environment/natural resources management, etc.
Through presentations on automated machinery developments, it is an
objective of the workshop to discuss generic methods, systems and
components of interest for research, development and manufacturing in
bio-productions. Of particular interest are presentations which
define the state of the art and propose basic improvements on robotics
methods and tools which are particularly relevant to bio-productions.
Presentations on applications of automated machinery in
bio-productions will be appreciated, especially if they lead to
generic results for the workshop topics.
MAIN TOPICS OF BIO-ROBOTICS 97
These could be defined as follows:
=A8 Basic functions and approaches Such as manipulators and vehicle
control, navigation and tracking, man-machine communication,
inspection, sorting and grading, sensing, grasping and handling of
bio-objects, task perception and programming, human perception
simulation, safety and reliability, predictive maintenance.
=A8 Technologies and tools Such as specialised robot components,
actuators, sensors, mechanical structures, machine perception,
information processing architecture, special mechatronic design.
=A8 Developments in application areas Such as soil preparation,
planting and fertilising, weed and pest control, harvesting and
post-harvest conditioning, greenhouse operations, in-vitro plant
propagation, forestry works, animal husbandry, milk production,
breeding, shearing, meat industry and all other food processes,
non-food agro-industrial processes, environment- landscape-green
spaces maintenance's.
=A8 General problems Around the presentations on the above specific
topics, general discussions will be promoted on subjects as:
=95 Adaptation of the automation methods and tools to the needs,
abilities, means and availability of the end users (man /
automated-system interactions),
=95 reliability of mechatronics and robotics components in the
actual farm machinery system,
=95 difficulties in building mechatronic tools which embed heavy
"perceptions and decisions" packages, needed for automation in
bio-productions, where tasks and systems behaviours are made more
complex by biology and nature.
RELATED EVENTS
The 5th IARP workshop on Robotics in Agriculture & food-industry.
September,
24-25, 1997.
Valencia, Spain.
http://miron.disca.upv.es/iarp-97
The 3rd IFAC/ ISIIS/ EurAgEng workshop on Mathematical and Control
Applications in Agriculture and Horticulture. September 28 - October 2,
1997.=20
http://www.ifgb.uni-hannover.de/extern/itg/tagung/tagung.htm
Hannover, Germany.
PREPARATION OF BIO-ROBOTICS 97
Paper proposals are to be presented by authors as 2-A4-pages
abstracts. They will be selected by an international scientific
committee, built under the auspices of EurAgEng, with contributions
from IFAC, and leaded by Pr. F. Juste.
Presentations will be possible either as oral exposures or as posters.
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DEADLINES
Abstracts (max.2 pages, 3 copies): March 15,1997
Acceptance notification: May 31, 1997
Camera ready manuscripts (max. 6 pages): July 15, 1997
At the workshop, authors of the most relevant papers will be
encouraged to submit a more complete version of their presentation to
be reviewed for publication in the Journal of Agricultural Engineering
Research, the Official Journal of EurAgEng, the European Society of
Agricultural Engineers.
Extended abstracts should be sent to:
Secretariat BIO-ROBOTICS '97 Workshop
DISCA - EUI
Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
P.O. Box 22012-46071 =95 VALENCIA, Spain.
e-mail: biorob97@disca.upv.es
Phone: (34)-6-3877570 =95 Fax: (34)-6-3877579
An ASCII version of this announcement and a registration form
are available from=20
http://www.miron.disca.upv.es/biorob-97
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
J.V. Benlloch, DISCA-UPV (Spain) jbenlloc@disca.upv.es
G. Andreu, DISCA-UPV (Spain) gandreu @disca.upv.es
J.M. Valiente, DISCA-UPV (Spain) jvalient @disca.upv.es
F. Juste, IVIA (Spain) =20
trini.sebastia@ivia.es
E. Molt=F3, IVIA (Spain) =20
enrique.molto@ivia.es
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