September 17, 2024
Teikyo University student Fumio Amagi (4th year, Faculty of Science and Engineering) presented a paper at the XXVII International Congress of Entomology (ICE2024) held at the Kyoto International Conference Center from Sunday, August 25th to Friday, August 30th, 2024. ICE is the most comprehensive international conference on entomology in general, and has been held in various countries approximately every four years since the first conference was held in Brussels, Belgium in 1910. In 1980, the first conference in Asia was held in Kyoto, and this conference was held in Japan for the first time in 44 years.
Amagi belongs to the Department of Department of Information and Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Science and Engineering and Technology, and from September 2023, he has been working under Professor Yuichi Hasuda of the same department to design and create autonomous robots using artificial intelligence (AI). He gave a presentation titled "Pattern recognition and detection of damage to crops of stink bugs using AI," proposing and demonstrating the effectiveness of a system in which a patrol robot equipped with a camera patrols farmland and orchards to detect stink bugs and the damage they cause. During the question and answer session, he carefully answered questions from researchers from various countries about "the use of robots on uneven ground such as orchards and rice paddies" and "the accuracy of the movement of patrol robots," demonstrating the high quality of our university's robotics education. Amagi spent his elementary school years in the United States, and he used his fluent English skills to demonstrate the future of smart agriculture. We look forward to seeing more of Amagi's success in the future.
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