Wageningen University & Research
The mission of
Wageningen University & Research is "To explore the potential of nature to improve the quality of life". Within Wageningen University & Research, nine specialised research institutes from the Wageningen Research Foundation and Wageningen University have joined forces to help answer the most important questions in the domain of healthy food and living environment.
With approximately 30 locations, 6,000 employees, and 12,000 students, Wageningen University & Research is one of the leading organisations in its domain worldwide. An integrated approach to problems and the cooperation between various disciplines are at the heart of the unique approach of Wageningen.
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Wageningen University & Research, business unit
Greenhouse Horticulture, is the internationally leading contract research institute for greenhouse horticulture. We focus on innovations in the greenhouse horticulture sector. Together with industry, science and government, questions on greenhouse design, crop management and cultivation are analyzed and translated into application-oriented research and innovation processes.
The business unit Greenhouse Horticulture has about 110 employees and four research teams:
- Crop health, water and growing medium
- Crop physiology
- Crop management and quality
- Greenhouse Technology
The function described here is part of the
Greenhouse Technology research team. Research is conducted to develop sustainable greenhouse and indoor farming production systems in the Netherlands and various regions in the world. Experts in the field of crop physiology, crop protection, greenhouse climate, water, energy, modelling, data science, computer vision, sensors and robotics work together in a multi-disciplinary approach. They do this together with experts from science and business. For more information, take a look at
https://www.wur.nl/en/Research-Results/Research-Institutes/plant-research/greenhouse-horticulture.htmProgramme Agro Food RoboticsIn the field of Agro Food Robotics research and development, Wageningen University & Research is worldwide the most experienced and innovative organisation More than 40 engineers and researchers work together with academic and industrial partners on new robotic systems for agri and food.
We design agricultural robotic systems for open field, indoor horticulture, livestock, fresh chains and food, together with many experts on these application fields within Wageningen. The research topics are:
- Precision farming (computer vision and robotics parts thereof).
- Robotic harvesting and plant manipulation.
- Non-destructive measurements.
- Automated quality assessment.
- Automated vision guided phenotyping.
- 3D reconstruction & hyperspectral imaging.
- Quality phenomics (computer vision and robotics parts thereof).
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http://www.wur.nl/en/Research-Results/Projects-and-programmes/Agro-Food-Robotics.htm