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In article <9390@pt.cs.cmu.edu>, rmh@fas.ri.cmu.edu (Regis Hoffman) writes:
> Does anyone know of any upcoming conferences on agricultural
> robotics, or conferences with a session devoted to this topic? 
> Also, what university/industry groups are working in this area?
> 

In IROS'90 (IEEE International Workshop on Intelligent Robots
and Systems '90, July 3-6, 1990, Tsuchiura, Ibaraki, Japan),
two sessions on agricultural robots are organized.
Titles and authors are as follows:

A Force/Torque Sensor-based Technique for Robot Harvesting of
Fruits and Vegetables
	B.Allotta, G.Buttazzo, P.Dario, F.Quaglia(Univ.of Pisa,Italy)
	P.Levi(AID S.pA.,Italy) 
A Harvesting Robot for Cucumber
	K.Amaha, H.Shono, T.Takakura(Univ. of Tokyo,Japan)
An Intelligent Automated System for Grading Peanuts
	F.E.Dowell(U.S.Dpt. of Agriculture, U.S.A)
Automated Devices to Grow and Transplant Seedings
	H.L.Brewer(U.S.Dpt. of Agriculture, U.S.A)
Agricultural Robots in Japan
	N.Ito(Mie Univ., Japan)
Grading Agricultural Products with Machine Vision
	F.E.Sistler(Louisiana State Univ., U.S.A)
Image-Guided Robotics for the Automation of Micropropagation
	R.D.Tillett, F.R.Brown, N.J.B.McFarlane, C.M.Onyango,
	P.F.Davis, J.A.Marchant(AFRC Engineering, U.K.)
AI Application in Carcass Beef Grading Automation
	Y-R.Chen(U.S.Dpt. of Agriculture, U.S.A)
Visually Guided Operations in Green Houses
	G.Sandini, F.Buemi, M.Massa, M.Zucchini
	(Univ. of Genova, Italy)
Automated Steering Control of Robotic Mower
	K.Taniwaki(National Agriculture Research Center,MAFF,Japan)
	H.Kamiyama, T.Soga(Yammer Diesel, Japan)
Electronic Systems to Automatically Detect Insect Pests that
Respond to Species-Specific Chemical Sex Pheromone Baits
	D.E.Hendrics(U.S.Dpt. of Agriculture, U.S.A.)


Contact Adress of the workshop is:

	IROS'90 Secretariat
	Mechanical Engineering Research Laboratory
	Hitachi Ltd.
	502 Kandatsu, Tsuchiura, Ibaraki 300 Japan
	Phone: 81-298-31-5111 ex.6420
	Fax:   81-298-32-2806

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		Hirohiko Arai
		Robotics Department
		Mechanical Engineering Laboratory, MITI