Emerging Technologies and Associated Challenges for Controlled Environment Agriculture

Emerging technologies provide the potential to measure, analyze, and control what happens in agricultural environments.  Robotics and high-resolution sensing have been developed to provide intelligent automation capabilities in other domains, but there are many engineering challenges that must be addressed before their potential for agriculture can be fully realized.  This talk will review some recent robotics research systems, discuss existing barriers to implementation, and suggest possible paths to bring these technologies into high-impact application in controlled environment agriculture systems.