Eucalyptus represents one of the main sources of raw material in Brazil, and each year
substantial losses estimated at $400 million occur due to diseases. The active monitoring of …

This paper presents a novel method for controlling teams of unmanned aerial vehicles using
Stochastic Optimal Control (SOC) theory. The approach consists of a centralized high-level …

Abstract Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been widely used in localized data
collection and information search. However, there are still many practical challenges in real …

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its tools are being widely used worldwide. In the area of
agriculture, AI is being widely studied and expanding. The use of AI in agriculture is being …

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been attracting civilian attention by its increasing
number of applications and decreasing cost. The vast majority of current UAV tasks still have …

I discovered the hard way that finishing a PhD is not easy. I owe a lot of people for the time
money and effort to make this work possible. Bert, I learned a lot from you. You taught me …

Maps of plant pests are widely used to support farmer decisions to manage production at the
scale of crop fields. Such maps are generally obtained manually, by human annotators or …

This thesis presents a novel framework to perform single or multiple ground target finding
and action missions using low-cost Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). This framework …

Coupling Markov Random Fields and Automated Planning for Online Decision-Making to Map
Spatial Phenomena Page 1 Coupling Markov Random Fields and Automated Planning for …

Despite incremental improvements over decades, academic planning solutions see
relatively little use in many industrial domains despite the relevance of planning paradigms …