Current Competitive Grant

Field evaluation and system improvement of a semi-automated mechanical intra-row weeder for vegetable crops

Project ID: M2012-24

This 1-year grant for $35,461 was awarded in 2012.

Location: Story county

Here is an expansion of a previous Leopold Center competitive grant (M2009-23), which supported the development of a basic semi-automated mechanical intra-row weed removal system for vegetable crops. The investigators will conduct field trials to evaluate and improve the prototype.

Lie Tang

Lie Tang is an associate professor in the Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering at Iowa State University. His research has been concerned with agricultural automation, optimization, machine intelligence and robotics. He has many years of international experience in Europe and the United States. [Contact lead investigator]

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This competitive grant project is part of the Leopold Center's Marketing Initiative.

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This page was found at http://www.leopold.iastate.edu/grants/m2012-24 on 01/20/2013