Akshay Kumar Burusa

Akshay Kumar Burusa is a Researcher in the Department of Agricultural Biosystems Engineering at Wageningen University & Research. His work focuses on integrating robotics, computer vision, and deep learning for agricultural automation, particularly in greenhouse environments.

Research Interests:

• Robotics and machine learning for agro-food systems
• 3D pose estimation and keypoint detection in plants
• Real-time object tracking in cluttered environments
• Next-best-view algorithms for plant reconstruction
• Biomechanical modeling for robotic grasping

Recent Publications highlight advancements in agricultural robotics, including multi-view active vision for plant node detection, deep learning-based grasping of deformable objects, and self-supervised 3D reconstruction algorithms. His work emphasizes practical applications in tomato greenhouses and poultry processing automation.

Collaborations: Collaborates with experts like Eldert van Henten and Gert Kootstra on projects involving robotic perception and tracking. His research contributes to improving efficiency in agro-food robotics through advanced vision systems and algorithm design.