IEEE Kerala Section
Robotics and Automation Society Chapter
Invites you for Technical Lecture
on
Agricultural Robotics: Overview and Case Study of Robotic Coconut Tree Climber and Harvester
by
Dr. Rajesh Kannan Megalingam
Director, HuT Labs
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
Date : Wednesday, 26th April 2017
Venue : Cochin Hall, Technopark, Trivandrum
Time : 5.30 PM to 7.00 PM
Registration : Please register online at http://bit.ly/IEEE-RAS
Abstract of talk
In this era of robotics, each and every field in the industry is moving towards robotics and automation. Robotics is adding automation to several agricultural sectors. Coconut production is one among the several sectors of agricultural industry. As the coconut palm growers are struggling with the acute shortage of human coconut tree climbers to climb and harvest the coconuts, many are working towards possible alternatives to help them handle this situation. In this context the problems associated with the shortage of human coconut tree climbers in depth are analysed. The details of various existing mechanical models available in the market and how robotics and automation could be a possible solution for this entire problem is also presented.
As a case study, the development and implementation of the novel unmanned robotic coconut tree climber and harvester built at Humanitarian Technology (HuT) Labs, Amrita University, is also discussed.
- First part of the talk discusses agricultural robotics and several existing robotics and automation solutions to various agricultural sectors
- Followed by problems associated with coconut tree climbing and the existing solutions
- Case study of design and implementation of the unmanned robotic coconut tree climber
Speaker Profile
Dr. Rajesh Kannan Megalingam is an electronics engineer, leading research on humanitarian technologies with special emphasis on Robotics at HuT (Humanitarian Technology) Labs and Professor at ECE Department. His research focuses on autonomous robots, vertical climbing robots, robots for rehabilitation, etc. Dr. Megalingam has seven and half years of industry experience and more than eleven years of research experience, worked as VLSI Design and Verification Engineer at various companies like STMicro Electronics, Insilicon Incorporation etc. California, USA, for six years before joining Amrita in 2004. Since then he has published more than 80 research papers at various international conferences, journals, and book chapters and also credited with four patents. Dr. Megalingam has won several awards including the Award of Excellence, the highest award by the Amrita university, Best design awards; his contributions to IEEE was appreciated by Outstanding Branch Counsellor and Advisor award from IEEE, NJ, USA and Outstanding Branch Counsellor Award from IEEE Kerala Section.
PS: Lecture follows with high tea and networking.
Any enquiries, please direct to:
Dr. Mithun Bhaskar
Chairman, Robotics & Automation Society
IEEE Kerala Section
E-mail: mithun.bm@ieee.org
Tel: +91 9544567711
