Conférence "Informative UAV-based Monitoring in Agriculture" par Marija Popovic
Marija Popovic, enseignante-chercheure à la Faculté d'ingénierie aérospatiale de l'Université technique de Delft, membre du laboratoire Micro Air Vehicle Laboratory, et invitée dans le cadre de l'action AVENTURE du CIR ITPS, donnera le mercredi 25 février à 10h une conférence afin de présenter ses activités de recherche.
Abstract:
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly deployed in agriculture for large-scale mapping and crop monitoring. However, their effectiveness is often limited not by sensing capabilities, but by how efficiently they decide where to go next in order to collect the most informative data under real-world constraints such as limited flight time, uncertainty, and partial observability. This talk presents recent advances in informative path planning (IPP) for agricultural UAVs, which are methods that tightly couple perception and planning to enable adaptive, data-driven exploration. I will focus in particular on learning-based IPP approaches, including reinforcement learning and active learning, and discuss how these methods allow UAVs to autonomously balance between exploration and exploitation during online missions.
Short bio:
Marija Popović is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering at TU Delft, where she is part of the Micro Air Vehicle Laboratory. Previously, she was a Junior Research Group Leader at the Cluster of Excellence "PhenoRob" at the University of Bonn and a Research Associate at Imperial College London. She completed her PhD at ETH Zurich in 2019. Her research focuses on robotics and AI, focusing on robotic exploration, active sensing, mapping, computer vision and machine learning.