Angelo Mencarelli

Wageningen University & Research, Graduate School Experimental Plant Sciences

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Angelo Mencarelli is a pioneering researcher in agricultural robotics, specializing in the automation of precision horticulture tasks. His work focuses on developing integrated hardware-software systems that enable robots to perform complex, real-world garden maintenance, such as pruning and trimming. Mencarelli’s major contribution is the creation of the first robotic system capable of pruning rose bushes in a natural environment, a breakthrough detailed in his most-cited paper (17 citations). This system combines real-time stereo vision with a robotic arm to navigate the unstructured challenges of a garden. He further advanced the field by designing a novel end-effector for bush trimming and developing a robot for trimming boxwood topiaries into user-specified shapes like spheres and cubes. His research on evaluating a topiary trimming robot (16 citations) introduced a novel performance metric, validated through experiments in a real garden. As a key contributor to the European TrimBot 2020 project, Mencarelli’s work is foundational for the future of autonomous gardening, demonstrating that robots can achieve the dexterity and adaptability needed for delicate, outdoor tasks.