UC Merced Robotics

New MRPI grant:

Prestigious Biennial Grant Program Includes Funding for Ag-labor and Wildfire Research | Newsroom By Lorena Anderson, UC MercedJanuary 14, 2021Many of UC Merced's researchers will be part of UC-funded projects with colleagues at other campuses.Two new projects designed and led by UC Merced researchers will address challenges facing many Californians — wildfire recovery and agricultural labor ....

New NRI grant awarded.

New Precision Ag Project Would Help Farmers Measure Plant Moisture | Newsroom By Lorena Anderson, UC MercedNovember 2, 2020The base robot for the new plant-moisture-measuring system researchers are developing will navigate rows of crops to reach individual leaves and stems.One of the biggest challenges in managing crops, especially in large fields, is knowing how much water e...

http://theinstitute.ieee.org/technology-topics/robotics/robots-to-help-californias-grape-growers-conserve-water

Robots to Help California’s Grape Growers Conserve Water - IEEE - The Institute The machines are part of the University of California’s precision irrigation system

Three new papers will be presented at ICRA 2018 in May:

- T. Thayer, S. Vougioukas, K. Goldberg, S. Carpin. "Routing Algorithms for Robot Assisted Precision Irrigation."
- R. Berenstein, R. Fox, S. McKinley, S. Carpin, K. Goldberg. "Robustly Adjusting Indoor Drip Irrigation Emitters with the Toyota HSR Robot."
- S. Liu, S. Carpin. "Grasp Quality Evaluation with Whole Arm Kinematic Noise Propagation."

The first two are related to our ongoing RAPID project.

Moreover, our paper "Coordinated Search With Multiple Robots Arranged in Line Formations" recently accepted for the IEEE Transactions on Robotics will be presented at ICRA, too.

See you in Brisbane!