BAE Seminar Series: Advancements in Artificial Intelligence for Specialty Crop Automation: Enhancing Sweetpotato Sorting and Apple Crop Load Management

October 29, 2024 3:00PM - 4:00PM

Farrall Hall Room 208 or Zoom

Tuesday, October 29

3 PM

Farrall Hall 208

Zoom: https://msu.zoom.us/j/96936908450

Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) is being increasingly applied in specialty crop industries, alongside advances in perception and actuation technologies, enabling automated, real-time operations. This seminar will report on the latest progress in AI-driven automation for specialty crops. Sweetpotato is an economically important root vegetable crop. Automated quality grading and sorting of fresh market sweetpotato roots have not been achieved at packing facilities. We have developed an innovative machine vision-based, automated sweetpotato grading and sorting system. Our experiment results will be presented to showcase the effectiveness. Beyond sweetpotato sorting, the seminar will present the application of AI and robotics for precision management of apple crop load, including the development and evaluation of an AI-powered apple flower detection system integrated with precision spraying. Finally, the presenters will share their career plans in AI-driven automation and robotics for smart agriculture.

Bio: Dr. Jiajun Xu is a postdoctoral research associate in the AgFood Sensing & Intelligence group led by Dr. Yuzhen Lu at Michigan State University. His research focuses on sensing and automation technologies for smart agriculture. He received his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from North China Electric Power University in 2016, and his M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Civil Aviation University of China, and IMT Mines Albi, France in 2019. In 2022, he obtained his doctorate in Mechanical Engineering from Gachon University (South Korea). Before joining Michigan State University, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Gachon University.

Bio: Dr. Xinyang Mu is a postdoctoral research associate in Dr. Yuzhen Lu’s group at Michigan State University. His research focuses on computer vision, machine learning, advanced sensor systems, and robotic automation for precision agriculture applications. Before joining Michigan State University, Dr. Xinyang Mu received his Ph.D. in Agricultural and Biological Engineering at Pennsylvania State University.

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