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February 20, 2024

Our Lab. Members won Outstanding Paper Award  at ICROS-KRoS 2023 Joint Conference and 2024 COLOSS Asia International Conference.

Our paper entitled "Field Evaluation of a Prioritized Path-Planning Algorithm for Heterogeneous Agricultural Tasks of Multi-UGVs" by lab member, Yuseong won Outstanding Paper Award at ICROS-KRoC 2023 Joint Conference, Gunsan, South Korea. And the paper entitled "Development of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles-based Wasp Tracking and  Habitat  Search  Technology" by Bosung and Jeonghyeon also won Outstanding Paper Award at 2024 COLOSS Asia International Conference, Seoul, South Korea.

November 3, 2023

Our Lab. Members won Outstanding Student Paper Award  at KSAM 2023 Autumn Conference.

Our paper entitled "Development of A Novel Analysis System of Temporal-Spatial Spraying Characteristic for Precise Aerial Spraying" by lab members, Jaehwi, Changjo, and Eunji won Outstanding Student Paper Award at the Korean Society for Agricultural Machinery (KSAM ) 2023 Autumn Conference, Yeosu, South Korea.

Jnue 2, 2023

Our Lab. Members won Best Paper Award  at the Workshop on Task-Informed Grasping IV, ICRA 2023.

Our paper entitled "A Suction Cup-based Soft Robotic Gripper for Cucumber Harvesting: Design and Validation" by lab members, Yuseung and Yonghyun won Best Paper Award at the Workshop on Task-Informed Grasping IV: Agri-Food Robotics–From Farm to Fork at the 2023 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2023), London, UK.

April 28, 2023

Our Lab. Members won Outstanding Student Paper Award  at KSAM 2023 Spring Conference.

Our paper entitled "Cucumber Pedicel Detection based on Computer Vision for Robust Visual Servoing of Harvesting Robot: Field Evaluation" by lab members, Changjo and Yonghyun won Outstanding Student Paper Award at the Korean Society for Agricultural Machinery (KSAM ) 2023 Spring Conference, Daejeon, South Korea.

March 26, 2023

New Grants from RDA

New grants was awarded for new project "Development of Digital Management Technology for Pest of Varroa Destructor and Vespa for Climate Change Adaption" for 45 months from RDA (Rural Development Administration).

Please see "Research-Funded Projects" page for details.

March 1, 2023

New Grants from NRF

New grants was awarded for new project "Development of Agricultural Robotics Platform for Digital Agriculture: From Laboratory to Field" for 60 months from NRF (National Research Foundation of Korea).

Please see "Research-Funded Projects" page for details.

September 1, 2022

HRA Lab. opens new Tracking Lab.

Please see "Resources-Photos" page for details.

July 26, 2022

Several manuscripts in various topics were presented and accepted in conferences and journals, respectively.

Please see "Publications-Conference Papers" and "Publications-Journal Papers" pages for details.

March 1, 2022

Two papers on tracking of small  flying insects were accepted in IEEE Access and Entomological Research

Our works on 'Investigation of  an Autonomous Tracking  System for  Localization of  Radio-Tagged Flying  Insects' and 'Field  Evaluation  of  UAV-based  Tracking  Method  for Localization  of  Small  Insects' were accepted in IEEE Access and Entomological Research, respectively.

Please see "Publications-Journal Papers" page for details.

November 26, 2021

Two papers were accepted in Precision Agriculture and IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics

Our works on 'A Deep Learning-based Intelligent Spraying Robot with Flow Control' and 'A Hybrid Systems-based Hierarchical Control Architecture' were accepted in Precision Agriculture and IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, respectively.

Please see "Publications-Journal Papers" page for details.

November 26, 2021

Our Lab. Members won a 1st and 4th Prizes in Research Project Competitions 

Our work on Intelligent Spraying System for an orchard by lab members, Chanyoung, Jeongeun, and Jaehwi won a 1st Prize among 330 teams in Industry-University Research Project Challenge organized by Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy. And the research on Autonomous Driving System for Smartfarm by lab members, Jaehwi, Jeonghyeon, Yu Seong, and Changjo won a 4th Prize among 760 teams in X-Coprs Research Festival organized by Ministry of Science and ICT.

September 7, 2021

One paper was published in Information Sciences

Our work on heterogeneous field robots was published in Information Sciences.

Please see "Publications-Journal Papers" page for details.

July 16, 2021

Associate Editor, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Prof. Son was appointed Associate Editor of IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters.

June 24, 2021

Many Field Experiments

Recently, we ran many field experiments for various research projects.

Please see "Resource-Photos" page for details.

April 16, 2021

New Grants from MAFRA

New grants was awarded for new project "Development of Monitoring, Fruit Thinning and Harvesting Robot for Hydroponic" for 45 months from MAFRA (Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs)

Please see "Research-Funded Projects" page for details.

Open Positions !

  We have open positions for students interested in studying in undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate courses. If you are interested, please send a message to Prof. Hyoung Il Son (clikck the button below).

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