Kit Franklin

MEng, CEng, MIAgrE, FRASE

Senior Engagement Fellow - Engineering

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

Research: Harper Institute of Technology

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:

Agricultural Engineering Knowledge Exchange
Agricultural Machinery 1 (E5002HF)
Agricultural Machinery 2 (HF)
Agricultural Systems and Field Engineering (E5001HF)
Emerging Technologies (HF)
Engineering the Future Environment (HF)