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Robotics & Imagining Systems

Robotics & Imagining Systems. Working Group I Autonomous Robotic Greenhouse Workshop II Guelph, Ontario 8 September 2005. What Industry Needs. Near-term requirements: Cutting costs to remain competitive for the next 5 years Biggest costs– harvesting! Longer-term considerations:

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Robotics & Imagining Systems

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  1. Robotics & Imagining Systems Working Group I Autonomous Robotic Greenhouse Workshop II Guelph, Ontario 8 September 2005

  2. What Industry Needs • Near-term requirements: • Cutting costs to remain competitive for the next 5 years • Biggest costs–harvesting! • Longer-term considerations: • Stop thinking in square metres; start thinking in cubic metres • Cost savings up to 3.5x • The future is 3D greenhousing! • Return-on-investment horizon: Less than 3 years

  3. Automation Automonous Robotic Greenhouse The Storyline. . . Economics Need CFI

  4. The Grand Mission. . . • To automate growing operations from seed to table

  5. The Big Question. . . • What is the science and technology required to enable cost-efficient growing operations in enclosed systems? • Logistics (moving plants vs moving equipment) • Energy considerations • Artificial intelligence • Sensing & automation • Robotics

  6. Focus of Proposal • Development of science and technology to realize the 3D greenhouse of the future • Comparison of future conventional greenhouse operations to 3D greenhouse operations • Infrastructure: • Conventional greenhouse • Baseline 3D greenhouse, suitable for innovative experimentation • Robotic and automated systems

  7. Academia Gov't Gov't Academia Gov't Academia Academia Industry Academia Academia Industry Industry Academia Academia Academia Gov't Gov't Academia Gov't Industry Academia Academia Declared Interests • OGVG, YorkU (3D greenhousing) • OMA (cost-effective production) • UofWindsor, NRC IMTI, YorkU (virtual greenhouse modeling) • Neptec, UofGuelph, UWO (imaging) • Unisearch, UTMIE (3D gas analysis) • Honey Electric (systems integration) • UofGuelph, UTIAS, YorkU, NRC IMTI, OCE (robotics) • Niagara College (photonics) • NRC IMTI (post-harvest operations) • EMS, UofGuelph, UofWindsor (plant-health monitoring)

  8. Let’s Grow Together!

  9. OCE: Fred Christie, Steve Colbert NRC IMTI: Peter Orban UofWindsor: Jonathan Wu UofGuelph: Bernie Grodzinski, Hussein Abdullah, Javaid Iqhal YorkU: Mavin Mandelbaum OGVG: Shallim Khosla Hydrorganic Greenhouse: Ed Casteels Unisearch: Doug Beynon Niagara College: Christine Bradaric-Baus, Marti Jurmain UWO: John Barron EMS: Andrew Bell Honey Electric: Reg MacDonald UTMIE: Reza Mani UTIAS: Gabriele D’Eleuterio Participants

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