Professor Mike Duke
The Dr John Gallagher Chair in Engineering
Qualifications: BEng (Hons) SBankPoly PhD SBank, MISES MANZSES
Personal Website: https://sci.waikato.ac.nz/about-us/engineering/our-research/WaiRAS
Papers Taught
Research Interests
Professor Mike Duke is the Dr John Gallagher Chair in Engineering at the University of Waikato and co-leader of the Waikato Robotics Automation and Sensing (WaiRAS) research group. Mike's current research specializes in agricultural robotics and he works with growers and machine manufacturers to undertake applied research into automating agricultural processes such as harvesting. His main industry research partner is Robotics Plus (RPL), New Zealand's leading Agri-robotics company. He has worked with them on a range of projects including, kiwiftuit, apple and asparagus harvesting, autonomous agricultural vehicles, robotic log scaler and kiwifruit yield estimation. He believes we are at the tipping point for a revolution in digital agriculture and that New Zealand is ideally placed to be a global leader.
Mike is also active in New Zealand's research landscape. He a principle investigator of the MBIE Optimising Horticulture project, led by Professor Bruce Macdonald at Auckland University. He was a PBRF panel member and is now on both Marden and SfTI selection panels. He is also an active member of AgritTechNZ and is advocating that the Government establish a New Zealand Robotics Academy, focusing on agriculture.
Recent Publications
McGuinness, B., Duke, M., Au, C. K., & Lim, S. H. (2021). Measuring radiata pine seedling morphological features using a machine vision system. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 189. doi:10.1016/j.compag.2021.106355
Jangali, R., Lim, S. H., Duke, M., & McGuinness, B. (2020). Design and development of an apple fruitlet thinning end-effector. In Manufacturing, Design, Entrepreneurship (MaDE2020) (pp. 81). Auckland, New Zealand.
Barnett, J., Lim, S. H., & Duke, M. (2020). Compliant grippers - an additive approach. In Manufacturing, Design, Entrepreneurship New Zealand (MaDE2020) (pp. 90). Auckland, New Zealand.
Peebles, M., Barnett, J., Duke, M., & Lim, S. H. (2020). Robotic harvesting of asparagus using machine learning and time-of-flight imaging - overview of development and field trials. In IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering Vol. 2020-August. Hong Kong (Online Zoom Meeting). doi:10.1109/CASE48305.2020.9217006
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Contact Details
Email: [email protected]Room: CD.1.02
Phone: +64 7 838 4522