Ronnie Concepcion
Papers
11
Total Citations
131
H-Index
7
About
Ronnie Concepcion is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of robotics, artificial intelligence, and sustainable agriculture. His work spans three transformative domains: agricultural robotics for vertical farming, intelligent supply chain systems, and bio-inspired computing. He is best known for developing an inverse kinematics framework for crop-harvesting robotic arms (33 citations), a foundational contribution to automated vertical farming that addresses food security for a projected 9.8 billion global population by 2050. His highly cited study on technology-intensified agricultural supply chains (27 citations) demonstrates how digital transformation can improve quality of life in rural hinterland communities. Concepcion’s visionary work on Industry 5.0 and space agriculture (17 citations) explores how sustainable food production can support human colonization of Mars. He has also made notable contributions to robotics diffusion policy in the Philippines (16 citations), fuzzy-logic controllers for swarm robotics, and groundbreaking research on plant root systems as biological logic gates—showing that maize and tomato roots can perform arithmetic-logic operations in response to environmental stimuli. His interdisciplinary approach, combining robotics, machine learning, and plant biology, positions him as a leading voice in the future of sustainable food systems and autonomous agriculture.
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- 5Design of a Robot Controller for Peloton Formation Using Fuzzy Logic9 citations · 2019
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- 8Automated Cooking Systems: Benefits, Challenges, and Future Directions4 citations · 2023
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