Ingrid Lorena Argote Pedraza

Universidade de São Paulo, Universidade Federal de São Carlos

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Ingrid Lorena Argote Pedraza is a robotics researcher whose work bridges precision agriculture, autonomous navigation, and embedded systems. Her key contributions center on developing mobile robots for agricultural applications, most notably through the Mirã rover—a collaborative project between LabRom (EESC-USP) and Embrapa Instrumentação. This rover integrates LIBS (Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy) technology to analyze essential soil nutrient elements, enabling real-time soil assessment for precision agriculture. Her research also advances autonomous navigation, including smooth clothoid-based path planning and predictive control for car-like robots, as well as FPGA-based navigation control for differential-drive mobile robots—leveraging field-programmable gate arrays for compact, parallel-processing capable embedded circuits. While her most-cited works each hold 2 citations, their collective impact lies in pioneering low-cost, embedded solutions for agricultural robotics in Brazil. Argote Pedraza’s work exemplifies how robotics can address practical challenges in food production, making her a notable contributor to the intersection of field robotics, embedded control, and sustainable agriculture.