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Friday, Aug. 7, 2015
The simulated soybean field created by the Kansas State University Robotics Design 1xbet online games login for the 2015 annual student robotics design competition at the annual meeting of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers.| Download this photo.
MANHATTAN — The streak continues. The 1xbet online games login Robotics Design 1xbet online games login is the winner of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers' annual student 1xbet online games login competition for the ninth year in a row.
And the winning doesn't stop at the top this year. A second Kansas State University robotics design in the competition won third place — but 1xbet online games login members, displaying good sportsmanship, decided to yield the honor to the fourth-place 1xbet online games login from Zhejiang University in China.
The 1xbet online games login took place at the society's annual meeting, July 26-29, in New Orleans. The aim of the 1xbet online games login is to encourage undergraduate and graduate students to develop innovative robotic solutions to real-life problems in agriculture.
Automated plant phenotyping was the focus of this year's 1xbet online games login challenge. Phenotyping helps breeders identify the behavior of plants under certain conditions and determine which plant strains are best suited for those conditions. When done by hand, phenotyping can be a time-consuming task, but automation could greatly increase the throughput, hence improving the phenotyping efficiency, said Naiqian Zhang, 1xbet online games login advisor and a professor of biological and agricultural engineering.
"For the competition, the student teams had to construct a fully automated robotic system designed to simulate the assessment of soybean plants in the field," Zhang said. "Each 1xbet online games login 's robotic system had to collect and deliver samples of all detected phenotypes in the field, requiring the systems to identify plants by color and height, and deliver them to a reporting station."
The "field" was an 8-by-8-foot board with specially made pieces to represent the plants. Teams earned points for accuracy in phenotype detection and collection, and for elegance and creativity.
Zhang said the university's Robotics Design 1xbet online games login always enters two designs, Plan A and Plan B, in the competition, and that both designs are the product of work by the entire 1xbet online games login .
"For this year, Plan A was a slick, compact robot that accurately sensed the color and size of individual plants and precisely picked up the samples," Zhang said. "Plan B, on the other hand, used wirelessly transmitted images of plant rows for remote sensing. Both designs earned significant amounts of points for elegance and creativity."
To learn more about the university's Robotics Design 1xbet online games login , watch a talk given by Zhang at the 2015 Spotlight K-1xbet online games login .
The following students were members of the Robotics Design 1xbet online games login :
Jared Gross, senior in biological systems 1xbet online games login , Chapman; Katie Dhuyvetter, sophomore in electrical and computer 1xbet online games login , and Sriramana Sankar, sophomore in biological systems 1xbet online games login , both from Manhattan.
From out of state: Grant Ferland, junior in mechanical engineering, Kansas City, Missouri; and Justin Frazier, master's student in biological and agricultural engineering, Tonkawa, Oklahoma, and 1xbet online games login captain.
From out of country: Yuqi Song, master's student in biological and agricultural 1xbet online games login , Fushun, China; Yong Wei, doctoral student in biological and agricultural 1xbet online games login , Tianjin, China; Tingting Wu, visiting scholar in biological and agricultural 1xbet online games login , Yangcheng, China; and Mohammed Hasan, doctoral student in biological and agricultural 1xbet online games login , Baghdad, Iraq.
1xbet online games login members who participated in the competition included Sankar, Frazier, Song, Wei and Wu.
