15th ICPA Post Conference Tour
Tour Overview
Following the ICPA Conference sessions on Wednesday, June 29th, join us for an enlightening tour of the University of Minnesota’s Robotics Institute and the Precision Agriculture Center. Buses will leave the Marriott Conference Center at 1:00pm and return by 6:00pm. The cost of the tour is $65 and a boxed lunch is included in the tour registration price.
The Post Conference Tour is a great way to complete your time at the 15th International Conference On Precision Agriculture.
Minnesota Robotics Institute
Starting at 1:30pm, attendees will spend roughly 2 hours in the Minnesota Robotics Institute (Shepherd Labs) on the main campus of the University of Minnesota. Visitors will learn about the Distributed Robotics Lab, the Robotic Sensor Network Lab, and the Drone Lab.
The Precision Ag Center
From there, we will travel 15 minutes to the St. Paul campus of the University of Minnesota’s Precision Ag Center. While at the Precision Ag Center, attendees will learn about the research being conducted at the center and see demonstrations from the university’s partner companies, Agmatics, Sentek Systems, Granular, Sentera, and Persistence Data Mining, Inc. who will lead a demonstration on hyperspectral soil sensing. These activities would take about 90 minutes.
List of the stops:
Stop A - Minnesota Robotics Institute
Stop B – Precision Ag Center
The Following Itinerary Is Subject To Change:
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Time
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Itinerary
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12:45pm
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Board the Buses at the Minneapolis Marriott City Center Hotel (box lunch on board)
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1:00pm
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Departure from the Minneapolis Marriott City Center
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1:30pm
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Stop A: Minnesota Robotics Institute
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3:30pm
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Departure from Stop A
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4:00pm
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Stop B: Precision Ag Center
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5:30pm
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Departure from Stop B
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6:00pm
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Return to Minneapolis Marriott City Center Hotel
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General Site View
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