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! width="75%" colspan="2" | '''15th Workshop on Field & Assistive Robotics (WFAR-15)'''
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! width="75%" colspan="2" | Oct 13th, LUMS School of Science & Engineering, Lahore, Pakistan
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== Tutorial # 1 : Thursday Oct 11, 2018 - Venue: Dean's Smart Room, 4th floor, SSE building ==
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| align ="left" | Dr. Hassan Mohy Ud Din
| align ="center" | Lahore University of Management Sciences
| align ="left" | Conversations on Deep Learning
| align ="left" | [[Media:Lecture_on_Deep_Learning_Announcement.pdf‎| Tutorial details]]
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== WPAF : Friday Oct 12, 2018 - Venue: CS Smart room, ground floor, SSE building ==
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| align ="left" | 9:00-9:05
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| align ="left" | Recitation from the Holy Quran
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| align ="left" | Welcome by the Vice Chancellor LUMS 
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| align ="left" | '''Session 1: Water Informatics for Irrigation Efficiency & Monitoring Quality '''
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| align ="center" | ''Panel Discussion''

Mr. Zameer Soomro, Regional Head, Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources

Mr. Ghulam Zakir Sial, Director, Irrigation Research Institute (IRI)

Mr. Ch. Muhammad Akram, Director General, Water Management of Agriculture (WMA)

Dr. Abubakr Muhammad, Director, Water Informatics & Technology (WIT)(''Moderator'') 
  
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| align ="left" | 10:45-11:00
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| align ="left" | Tea break 
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| align ="left" | 11:00-11:30
| align ="left" | Prof. Karsten Berns
| align ="center" |  Technical University Kaiserslautern, Germany
| align ="left" |  '''Chair.''' Dr Syed Atif Mehdi. 

'''Keynote Talk:''' Agricultural Research Vehicles: From Sensor Systems to Autonomous Driving
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'''Session 2: Remote Sensing in Crop Monitoring and Forestry'''

'''Chair.''' Dr Ahmad Kamal Nasir  

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| align ="left" | Dr. Ather Ashraf
| align ="center" | Flood Emergency Reconstruction and Resilience Project, Punjab P&D
| align ="left" | DCH and Big Data application for Agriculture Sector
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| align ="left" | 11:30-12:00
| align ="left" | Dr. Waqas Qazi
| align ="center" | Institute of Space and Technology (IST)
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| align ="left" | 12:00-12:30
| align ="left" | Dr Muhammad Jehanzeb Masud Cheema
| align ="center" |  University of Agriculture Faisalabad (UAF) 
| align ="left" | Crop Health Monitoring using Satellite Imagery (TBC)
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| align ="left" | 12:30-12:45
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| align ="left" | Group Photo
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| align ="left" | '''Session 3: Showcase of Precision Agriculture Projects'''
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| align ="center" | ''Project Presentations''

Dr. Syed Atif Mehdi, University of Central Punjab (UCP)

Dr. Muhammad Azeem, University of Agriculture Faisalabad (UAF)

Dr. Maria Awais, Lahore College for Women University (LCWU)

Mr. Tahir Rasheed, CEO, South Punjab Forest Company (SPFC)

Dr. Malik Jahan, Namal College Mianwali

Dr. Tayab Din Memon, Mehran University of Engineering & Technology, Jamshoro

Mr. Adeel Liaqat, University of Engineering & Technology, Lahore

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| align ="left" | '''Session 4: Way forward on Smart Agriculture in Pakistan'''
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| align ="center" | ''Panel Discussion''

Mr. Ali Iqbal, Ignite

Dr. Umar Shahbaz, Director, National Center for Robotics & Automation (NCRA)

Dr. Yasir Ayaz, Director, National Center for Artificial Intelligence (NCRI)

Dr. Naveed Arshad, Director, National Ccenter in Big Data & Cloud Computing (NCBC)

Mr. Kashif Muhammad, ICT Advisor, Agriculture Department Punjab

Punjab Agriculture Research Board (PARB)

National Incubation Center (NIC) 

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== WFAR : Saturday Oct 13, 2018 - Venue: 10-201 Auditorium, 2nd floor, SSE building ==
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| align ="left" | 9:00-9:05
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| align ="left" | Recitation from the Holy Quran
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| align ="left" | 9:05-9:15
| align ="left" | Dr. Shahid Masud
| align ="center" | Lahore University Management Sciences
| align ="left" | Welcome note by Dean, SSE-LUMS
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| align ="left" | '''Session 1: Intelligent Transportation'''
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| align ="left" | Dr. Faisal Riaz
| align ="center" |  Mirpur University of Science & Technology
| align ="left" |  Enhanced emotion enabled cognitive agent-based rear-end collision avoidance controller for autonomous vehicle
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| align ="left" | 09:15-09:45
| align ="left" | Mr. Qazi Hamza Jan
| align ="center" | Technical University Kaiserslautern 
| align ="left" | Control of an Autonomous Bus on a Pedestrian Walk
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| align ="left" | Dr. Aamer Iqbal Bhatti
| align ="center" | Capital University of Science & Technology
| align ="left" | Impact of Powertrain on Optimal Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control A PMP Approach 
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| align ="left" | '''Session 2: Multi Agent Robotics'''
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| align ="left" | Dr. Waseem Abbas
| align ="center" | Information Technology University 
| align ="left" | Controllability and Robustness Trade-offs in Networks of Diffusively Coupled Agents
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| align ="left" | Dr. Usman Khan
| align ="center" | Tufts University 
| align ="left" | Distributed Intelligence in Autonomous Robotics -- Theory and Applications
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| align ="left" | Dr. Hassan Jaleel
| align ="center" |  Lahore University of Management Sciences
| align ="left" | Multi-robot Path Planning: From Theory to Practice and Back Again 
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| align ="left" | '''Session 3: Localization & Mapping'''
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| align ="left" | Dr. Muhammad Tahir
| align ="center" | Lahore University Management Sciences
| align ="left" | Ranging between Mobile Nodes in a Cooperative Positioning Framework 
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| align ="left" | Hannan Ejaz
| align ="center" | Technical University Kaiserslautern 
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| align ="left" | '''Session 4: Industry 4.0'''
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| align ="left" | Dr. Zubair Khalid
| align ="center" |  Lahore University Management Sciences
| align ="left" | Gaussian Process Regression: Application to Surface Analysis and Crease Profile Estimation in Packaging Industry
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| align ="left" | Dr. Riaz Uddin
| align ="center" | NED University of Engineering and Technology 
| align ="left" | A Predictive Energy-Bounding Algorithm for Haptic Teleoperation: An Overview 
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| align ="left" | '''Session 5: Sustainable Systems'''
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| align ="center" | Namal College Mianwali
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| align ="left" | Dr. Hasan Arshad Nasir
| align ="center" |  School of Electrical Eng. & Computer Sc., NUST
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== Tutorial # 2 : Monday Oct 15, 2018 - Venue: Dean's Smart Room, 4th floor, SSE building ==
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== Kinematics and dynamics of mobile robots ==


- Fundamentals of kinematic modelling 

- Drive kinematics

- Mobile robots and dynamics
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* 15th workshop on field and assistive robotics announced for Lahore, Pakistan. 
* 14th workshop on field and assistive robotics held in Dagstuhl, Germany. (2018)
* 13th German-Pakistani workshop on field and assistive robotics held in Lahore, Pakistan. (2017)
* 12th German-Pakistani workshop on field and assistive robotics held in Dagstuhl, Germany. (2017)
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