Farm Technology Group

The Farm Technology Group The Farm Technology Group aims at enhancing, exploiting and disseminating technology in primary agricultural production processes with the aim to fulfil the needs of mankind and nature in a sustainable way. This mission is achieved by combining knowledge, methods and tools from technical sciences with biological, environmental, agricultural and social sciences in order to study, understand, manage and design biosystems. The group covers the application domains arable farming, (greenhouse) horticulture and livestock farming and variations and mixtures of these three that arise due to new challenges a more bio-based economy poses. Our research instruments and expertise cover fields like sensor technology, data analysis, systems analysis, continuous time and discrete time modelling, systems engineering, integral systems design, systems optimization and management and control of production processes, robotics and precision agriculture techniques. link to our annual report 2010 Jaarverslag 2010.pdf