DDD Conference

2. Prof. Alon Wolf

Enhancing Automation in Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA)

Incoming Dean

Faculty of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering Technion I.I.T,  Israel

Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) is an indoor technology-based production system where crops are grown under a modified and highly conditioned environment. The greenhouse sector and its derivatives such as vertical farming are the most common forms of CEA.

CEA production is labor intensive, requiring workers for a range of critical production tasks including propagation, planting, movement and management of plants, cleaning, harvesting, pest management, pruning, sorting and packaging. The lecture will address launching a challenge to enhance solutions for these challenges by increasing the automation in the production and operations of CEA facilities.

 

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