Eric Risch, Yonghui Wang and Suxia Cui demonstrating their prototype for PVAMU students in CARC’s seminar roomIn its Weekly Bulletin Digest of December 29 2016, the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture, USDA-NIFA, featured several research/teaching projects funded through its Capacity Building Funding, One of these projects was “Establishment of an Agricultural Robotics Lab at Prairie View A&M University,” a joint project between CARC’s research scientist, Eric Risch, and his colleagues Yonghui Wang and Suxia Cui from the College on Engineering and Jian-ao Lian from the College of Arts and Sciences. The collaborators’ project impact statement explains that the designed robotics system is a “precision agriculture vehicle platform for mounting multiple sensors, including crop height sensor, crop canopy analyzer, normalized difference vegetative index (NDVI) sensor, multispectral camera, and hyperspectral radiometer.”

The research team demonstrated the prototypes developed as part of their project in several courses taught in the College of Agriculture and Human Sciences and the College of Engineering.

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Eric Risch, Yonghui Wang and Suxia Cui demonstrating their prototype for PVAMU students in CARC’s seminar room.

Dr. Ali Fares

 

Ali Fares, Ph.D.
Interim Associate Director, Cooperative Agricultural Research Center
alfares@pvamu.edu
(936) 261-5019