Alvaro Calleja Huerta studied how lightweight robots can protect the subsoil, but can impact the topsoil when equipped with small tyres or when passing repeatedly in the same areas.

The new research findings contribute to determine that lightweight vehicles in combination with low inflation flexible tyres and management practices could be used to avoid soil compaction.

The PhD study was completed at Department of Agroecology, Faculty of Technical Sciences, Aarhus University.

This summary was prepared by the PhD student.

Time: Tuesday, 24 October 2023 at 12:00
Place: 8814-3075, AU Viborg - Auditorium, Department of Agroecology, Aarhus University, Blichers Allé 20, 8830 Tjele
Title of PhD thesis: Soil impact evaluation from using agricultural lightweight robots in field operations
Contact information: Alvaro Calleja Huerta, e-mail: a.calleja@agro.au.dk, tel.: +45 50144009

Members of the assessment committee:
Director for Collective Scientific Assessment, Foresight, and Advanced Studies, Professor Guy Richard, National Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE), France 

Associate Professor, Jaroslaw A. Pytka, Department of Motor Vehicles, Lublin University of Technology, Poland

Senior Researcher, Jim Rasmussen (chair), Department of Agroecology, Aarhus University, Denmark

Main supervisor:
Professor Lars J. Munkholm, Department of Agroecology, Aarhus University, Denmark

Co-supervisor:
Senior Researcher Mathieu Lamandé, Department of Agroecology, Aarhus University, Denmark

Language: The PhD dissertation will be defended in English

The defence is public.
The PhD thesis is available for reading at the Graduate School of Technical Sciences/GSTS,

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