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Author:

Herbstritt, Steph

Title:

Re-envisioning Agriculture as Sustainable Multifunctional Landscapes

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Biological Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Perennial warm season grasses
Mixtures
Opportunity land
Perennial bioenergy crop
Field experiment
NDVI
Multifunctional agriculture

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Committee Members:

Herschel Elliott, Major Field Member
Tom Richard, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jonathan Duncan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Armen Kemanian, Outside Field Member
Suat Irmak, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Palacios, Christopher

Title:

Zero Waste in Sports: The Role of Compostable Packaging and Consumer Disposal Behavior

Graduate Program:

Biorenewable Systems (MS)

Keywords:

zero waste
waste
sports
packaging
compostable packaging
recyclable packaging
composting
recycling
trash
waste management
stadiums
landfill
consumer behavior
disposal accuracy
disposal behavior

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Committee Members:

Judd Harrison Michael, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christine Costello, Committee Member
Mark A Gagnon, Committee Member
Suat Irmak, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Hussain, Magni Stentoft

Title:

Robotic Green Fruit Thinning for Apple Production

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Biological Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Apples
Robotic Green Fruit Thinning
End-Effector
Fruit Removal Dynamics
Machine Vision
Deep Learning
Instance Segmentation
Orientation Estimation
3D Orientation Estimation
Fruit and Stem Pairing
Fruit Clustering
Collision-Free Path Planning
Path Sequencing
Agricultural Robotics
Crop Load Management

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Committee Members:

Suat Irmak, Program Head/Chair
Long He, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
David Lyons, Major Field Member
James Schupp, Outside Unit & Field Member
Paul Heinemann, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Lin, Wei Shu

Title:

Sustainable adhesives based on polysaccharide polyelectrolyte complexes

Graduate Program:

Biorenewable Systems (PHD)

Keywords:

Polysaccharide
Polyelectrolyte complex
Adhesive
Packaging

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Committee Members:

Suat Irmak, Program Head/Chair
Hojae Yi, Major Field Member
Jeffrey Catchmark, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Stephen Chmely, Major Field Member
Federico Harte, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Toth, Hana

Title:

Modeling and Evaluating Switchgrass Harvesting Systems

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Biological Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

switchgrass
harvesting
energy grass harvesting
switchgrass harvesting
round baling
square baling
system balancing
machine productivity
cost model
agriculture
field testing
modeling
baling

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Committee Members:

Suat Irmak, Program Head/Chair
Jude Liu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel Edward Ciolkosz, Committee Member
Charles David Ray, Sr., Committee Member
Jingxin Wang, Special Signatory

Author:

Jefferson, Tykeesha

Title:

Modeling the Hop Pelleting Production Process for Small Scale Pennsylvania Growers

Graduate Program:

Biorenewable Systems (MS)

Keywords:

hops
pelleting
technoeconomic analysis

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Committee Members:

Juliana Vasco-Correa, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ryan John Elias, Committee Member
Suat Irmak, Program Head/Chair
Daniel Edward Ciolkosz, Committee Member

Author:

Sahu, Rashmi

Title:

DEVELOPMENT OF VISION SYSTEM AND END-EFFECTOR FOR AUTOMATIC BUD THINNING OF APPLE TREE: EARLY CROP LOAD MANAGEMENT

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Biological Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

: Computer Vision
YOLO
Robotic Bud Thinning
LED-Stereovision
Image Acquisition
Crop load management
End-effector
Apple flower bud thinning
Linear solenoid
Robotic bud thinning.
Computer Vision

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Committee Members:

Long He, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Paul Heinz Heinemann, Committee Member
Suat Irmak, Program Head/Chair
James Rawlinson Schupp, Committee Member
Shirin Ghatrehsamani, Committee Member

Author:

Mu, Xinyang

Title:

Advancing Robotic Approaches to Precision Apple Crop Load Management in Blossom Thinning Stage

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Biological Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Apple crop load management
Apple blossom thinning
Machine vision system
Machine learning
Deep learning
Image processing
Robot automation
Precision agriculture

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Committee Members:

Suat Irmak, Program Head/Chair
Minghui Zhu, Outside Unit Member
Long He, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
James Schupp, Outside Field Member
Paul Heinemann, Major Field Member
Manoj Karkee, Special Member

Author:

Saha, Gourab

Title:

A Vision Towards Developing a Spatially And Temporally Robust Data-Driven Modeling Framework To Predict Continuous Stream Nitrate Concentration At Data-Scarce Locations

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Biological Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

LSTM
stream nitrate modeling
deep learning
machine learning
water quality
c-Q relationship

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Committee Members:

Suat Irmak, Program Head/Chair
Long He, Major Field Member
Cibin Raj, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Chaopeng Shen, Outside Field Member
Jonathan Duncan, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Li, Zhaoran

Title:

Optimization of Hot Water Pretreatment of Switchgrass for Acidogenic and Anaerobic Digestion

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Biological Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Switchgrass
Liquid Hot Water Pretreatment
Acidogenic Digestion
Anaerobic Digestion

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Committee Members:

Tom Richard, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ali Demirci, Committee Member
Suat Irmak, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Rachel Brennan, Committee Member