Author: Francisco Rovira Más

Francisco Rovira Más is an associate professor at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain. After receiving his Ph D in Agricultural Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he joined the Intelligent Vehicle Systems group of Deere and Company in Moline and Urbandale, USA, between 2003 and 2005. His research interests are autonomous vehicles; machine vision with special emphasis in stereoscopic vision; off-road equipment automation and controls; field robotics; and artificial intelligence. Qin Zhang is a professor, senior scientist and senior automation engineer at Washington State University, Prosser, USA. He received his Ph D in Agricultural Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests are automated and autonomous agricultural machinery technologies; intelligent agricultural machinery controls; on-machinery crop health sensing technologies; machinery-area network technologies; and agricultural infotronics technologies. Alan C. Hansen is a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, USA. He received his Ph D in Agricultural Engineering from the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. His research areas are diesel engine and tractor performace; biofuels and diesel engine combustion; simulation modeling of in-field grain handling systems; and machine vision.