Email: lietang@iastate.edu

Phone: 515-294-9778

Professor [A&BE]

Professor

Dr. Tang’s research has been concerned with agricultural automation, optimization, machine intelligence and robotics. He has many years of international research experience in Europe and US. He has developed an advanced real-time machine vision system for automated behavior monitoring for group-housed pigs in KULeuven (Belgium). During his PhD study he developed a sensing and control system for variable rate and selective weed control. He also developed an automated real-time sensing system (Plant Stand Analyzer) for corn plant population and interplant spacing measurements for large-scale maize breeding programs and commericialize the device through his startup company FieldRobo LLC. While he was on faculty in both Denmark and the Netherlands, he has been working on agricultural robotics and intelligent systems. Dr. Tang is currently continuing his research in developing advanced sensing, optimization and robotic technologies for agricultural production systems in 21st century. Some more recent research projects include NSF funded Enviratron – a accelerater for climate change research, and PhenoBots – a fleet of robotics vehicles for high-throughput field-based plant phenotyping. 

 

Learn more about Dr. Tang’s programs:

• Lie Tang Profile

ABE FacultyAgricultural and Biosystems Engineering

Faculty

Agricultural roboticsAutomation systemsComputational intelligenceMachine visionOptimizationPhenotyping

ABE Research GroupsAdvanced Machinery Engineering and Manufacturing Systems