IROS Workshop OnAgricultural Robotics: Advances in Design, Perception and Control to Deal With the Complex Agricultural Environment 2025
October 20, 2025
Hangzhou, China
Hangzhou, China
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| 08:50 | Welcome and Opening Remarks |
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Host: Prof. Grzegorz Cielniak Speaker: Prof. Chunjiang Zhao Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering |
| 09:00 | Session 1: Advances in Design to Deal with the Complex Agricultural Environment |
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Host: Dr. Ya Xiong • 09:00: Stavros Vougioukas (UC Davis) "Harvesting Fruits Fast with Multi-Armed Robotic Harvesters" • 09:30: Wei Han (Aiforcetech) "Challenges and Practices of Electric Unmanned Tractors" |
| 10:00 | Workshop Paper Pitches (Morning) |
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Host: Dr. Gert Kootstra • 10:00: Jozsef Palmieri (University of Cassino) "A Shared Control Approach for Semi-Autonomous Agricultural Harvesting Robots" • 10:04: Yanan Wang (Zhejiang University) "Prompt-Efficient Open-Vocabulary Scene Understanding in Agriculture" • 10:08: Qilin Li (Zhejiang University) "Towards Agile Turning: A Height-Aware Trajectory Planner for Autonomous Agricultural Vehicles" • 10:12: Samwel Waweru Kamau (Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology) "Edge-Optimized YOLOv11-Based Real-Time Weed Detection for Autonomous Precision Agriculture in Resource-Constrained Environments" • 10:16: Kabin Yok-in (University of Yamanashi) "3D Reconstruction and Segmentation of Grape Bunches for Robotic Berry Thinning" • 10:20: Yonghyun Park (Chonnam National University) "Seeing, Thinking, Acting: A Perception–Cognition–Action Framework for Dual-Arm Agricultural Robots" • 10:24: Nidhi Homey Parayil (Queensland University of Technology) "Tactile-Diffusion Policy for Reaching into Cluttered Agricultural Environments" |
| 10:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 | Poster Presentations |
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Host: Prof. Grzegorz Cielniak This session includes the 7 papers from the Workshop Paper pitches (Morning) plus 2 additional poster presentations: • Yue Linn Chong (University of Bonn) "Zero-Shot Semantic Segmentation for Robots in Agriculture" • Juntao Xiong (South China Agricultural University) "A Motion Planning Method for Litchi Harvesting Robots Integrating Traditional Planning and Imitation Learning" |
| 11:30 | Session 2: Advances in Perception to Deal with the Complex Agricultural Environment |
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Host: Prof. Grzegorz Cielniak • 11:30: Zhao Zhang (China Agricultural University) "Sensing and Automation Technology Progress for Apple Harvest" |
| 12:00 | Lunch Break |
| 13:30 | Session 3: Advances in Control to Deal with the Complex Agricultural Environment |
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Host: Dr. Gert Kootstra • 13:30: Chris Lehnert (QUT) "Advancing Agricultural Robotics: Handling Deformable Environments and Precision Manipulation Challenges" • 14:00: Amir Ghalamzan (University of Sheffield) "Towards Human-Level Dexterity in Agri-Robotics: Tactile Sensing and Predictive Control for Strawberry Harvesting" |
| 14:30 | Workshop Paper Pitches (Afternoon) |
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Host: Dr. Ya Xiong • 14:30: Azhardika Syahputra (Carnegie Mellon University) "Hardness Scores for Agricultural Vision: Measuring Scene Difficulty in Deep Learning" • 14:34: Diram Tabaa (Carnegie Mellon University) "Rethinking Viewpoint Planning in Mobile Robot Systems for Greenhouse Monitoring" • 14:38: Rishabh Dang (Netaji Subhas University of Technology) "Plant2Sim3D: From Real Plants to Simulated Worlds via Video-Driven 3D Mesh Generation" • 14:42: Syed Muhammad Nashit Arshad (Shenzhen Technology University) "Prediction of Sloshing Forces of Insecticide Using Deep Learning and Sensor Fusion" • 14:46: Xin Wang (China Agricultural University) "Perception-Driven Generalization of Demonstrated Trajectories for Robotic Tomato Harvesting Using Parameterized Dynamic Movement Primitives" • 14:50: Thabisa Maweni (University of Cape Town) "SMaC: Segment-aware Map Closures for Reliable Localisation under repetitive agricultural structures" • 14:54: Lin Yang (Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences) "Predicting Strawberry Pickability Index (PI) Using Two-Stage CNN Models in Clustered Harvesting Systems" |
| 15:00 | Coffee Break |
| 15:30 | Poster Presentations |
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Host: Dr. Gert Kootstra This session includes the 7 papers from the Workshop Paper pitches (Afternoon) plus 2 additional poster presentations: • Gaoyuan Liu (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) "Automated Behavior Planning for Fruit Tree Pruning via Redundant Robot Manipulators: Addressing the Behavior Planning Challenge" • Xiaoxian Xu (University of Cambridge) "In-Situ Classification of Soil Types Exploiting Electrical Impedance Tomography with a Robotic Actuating Probe" |
| 16:00 | Session 4: Advances in Control to Deal with the Complex Agricultural Environment |
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Host: Prof. Grzegorz Cielniak • 16:00: Andrea Gasparri (Università degli Studi Roma Tre) "EU project CANOPIES: A Collaborative Paradigm for Human Workers and Multi-Robot Teams in Precision Agriculture Systems" |
| 16:30 | Discussion Session: Lessons Learned and Future Directions |
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Host: Prof. Grzegorz Cielniak Break-Out Discussions and Plenary Sharing Session |
| 17:15 | Closing Remarks |
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Speaker: Prof. Grzegorz Cielniak Summary of key takeaways and announcements |
| 17:30 | End of the Workshop |