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September 10-11, 2009 | I-Hotel and Conference Center | Champaign, Illinois, USA

| MAIN TOPICS | • Robotic perception (including sensing technologies for bioproduction, such as robot status, situation awareness sensing, environmental and fertility sensing, plant stress and pest infestation sensing, and biomass quantity and quality sensing) • Reasoning and learning (including information process and utilization methods, such as pattern recognition, data mining, and data-to- knowledge conversion) • Communication (including data communication technologies, such as ISO bus, wired or wireless networks, and agricultural infotronics) • Planning (including robot-associated production task planning technologies, such as decision support systems, site-specific and plant-specific production planning, and variable rate prescription) • Execution (including automated functions, such as robotic control theories, controller design, and end-effecter controls) • Robot applications (including the use of robotic equipment in all crop production systems, from field operations to postharvest processes) • Socio-economic issues of bio-robotics (such as economic analysis, safety issues, and quality of life issues)