Teaching Areas
- Precision Agriculture
- Agricultural Technology and Automation
- Emerging and Evolving Technologies
Research Interests
Hands Free Hectare - Principle Investigator
Oxford Farming Conference Hands Free Hectare talk (YouTube)
"Future Farming System":
- Agricultural Automation
- Development of innovative agricultural machinery
- Intelligent implements
- Integration of control within tractor-implement management (TIM)
- Application of novel technology to solve agricultural problems
- Precision farming
- Novel agri pest management
- 5G - rural implementation & opportunity
- CAV - Connected Autonomous Vehicles
- Technology enabled agroecology and regenerative agriculture
Professional Memberships
- President-elect IAgrE; Trustee & Executive Committee member
- Member of the Institution of Agricultural Engineering
- Fellow of Royal Agricultural Society of England
- Member of BSI Technical Subcommittee AGE/6/4, developing BS 8646, Use of crop robots in agriculture and horticulture – Code of practice
- Joint head of the IAgrE Robotics Specailist Interest Group (Roboticd SIG)
- Member of the UKTIN (UK Telecoms Innovation Network) Agri-tech Working Group
Academic Department: Engineering
Tel: +44 (0)1952 81 5375
X (Twitter): @AgEngResearch
Office: E14 Applied Engineering Facilities
Publications
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Other publications
- James Lowenberg-DeBoer, Kit Franklin, Karl Behrendt & Richard Godwin (2021) Economics of autonomous equipment for arable farms Precision Agriculture 2021
Additional Information
Awarded as 2017 Farmers Weekly "Rising Star" in Agriculture.
Awarded the Institution of Agricultural Engineers (IAgrE) 2021 President’s Award for role in the Hands Free projects and publicity of the Agricultural Engineering profession to the wider public.
Research projects
- Economics of swarm robotics in UK agriculture - Researcher
Modules
You can contact Kit Franklin if you would like to discuss any of the following course modules:
Contact
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