Design Engineering and Transformation Equipment
- Electrical Engineering
- Energetic Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- Environmental impacts
- Software Tools
This sub-theme is intended to be in harmony with all development strategies, in order to meet the nutritional, energy and housing needs of the populations and generate export surpluses. Indeed, stimulating innovation and research in the agricultural and forestry sectors is essential for farmers to produce a lot with little means. Our objective is therefore to encourage engineers and researchers to publish their theoretical and experimental work, which may include diagrams, source codes, and design plans allowing a rapid diffusion of technologies at the forefront of innovation, in the agricultural engineering, biological engineering, food engineering and many other fields. Priority will be given, among other things, to the development of more intensive agriculture in sectors that promote growth and create jobs, in particular dessert bananas, plantains, sugar, sorghum and oil palm without neglecting other emerging sectors, especially potatoes, cowpeas and legumes, or niche products like horticulture. With regard to cash crops, the revitalization of cocoa, coffee, banana and cotton crops. The actions will aim to improve the health coverage of the orchard, its regeneration and the extension of cultivated areas.
HEADINGS
- Crop mechanization equipment
- Harvesting equipment
- Post-harvest processing equipment
- Processing equipment into derivative products
- Storage and packaging material
SCOPE: Communications will focus on:
– Sensors and instrumentation
– Robotics and machine learning
– Automatic vision, image processing and algorithm development
– Artificial intelligence and convolutional and neural networks
– Pneumatic transport and material detection
– Numerical fluid dynamics; Heat transfer and process engineering.
– Moisture detection
– Detection of humidity, density and permittivity by sensors
– Contamination by mitigation and prevention
– Irrigation
– Pre and post-harvest engineering
– Performance monitoring
– Food, animal feed and dietary fiber
– Optimization and drying
– Innovation and Intellectual Property.