Webinar on Revolutionizing Agriculture by Robotics and Automation

IEEE PES Sri Lanka Chapter, IEEE IES Sri Lanka Chapter, and IEEE RAS Sri Lanka Chapter invites you to the

Webinar on Revolutionizing Agriculture by Robotics and Automation

Speaker:
Dr. Thavida Maneewarn is currently the Founder and Director of Raina Robotech Co. Ltd., a company founded in 2022 that focuses on research & development in agricultural and field robotics. She is also the Director of Yannix co. ltd. since November 2018. She received a master’s and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (control & robotics ) from the University of Washington, Seattle, USA. She returned to Thailand after graduation in 2000. Dr. Thavida began her career as a researcher at the Institute of Field Robotics, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi where she was promoted as Deputy Director of Research from 2003 to 2014. Dr. Thavida was formerly the President of the Thai Robotics Society and the IEEE RAS-Thailand Chapter Chair (Robotic and Automation Society) which has the mission to promote knowledge and interests in automation and robotics to the young generation in Thailand. From 2007 – 2010, she was also the Director of I/UCRC HDD Advanced Manufacturing at KMUTT which is a collaborative center between the university and hard disk drives industries in Thailand.

Throughout her career, she has applied robotics technology to many real-world applications. At Yannix, computer vision technology is used for reconstructing 3D information about camera motion and environment for movie production. This same technology can be used for constructing a map of an environment for mobile robot applications. In the past twenty years, Dr. Thavida has introduced robotic solutions for solving many problems in Thailand, for example, a boiler inspection robot, semi-humanoid robots that work in museums and universities etc.