Abstract
Aquaculture, i.e., farming in an aquatic environment, plays an ever-growing role in food security in the US and worldwide. Since 2014 globally, more seafood consumed was farm-raised than wild-caught. Regrettably, aquaculture in the U.S. needs to catch up with the rest of the world, hindered by the high cost of resource-intensive operations. The labor shortage experienced in the industry exacerbates the problem.To revitalize the growth of the U.S. aquaculture industry, the proposed three-year Medium project - Intelligent Resource Efficient Pond Aquaculture (IREPA), aims to achieve transformative improvements in the productivity and sustainability in key pond aquaculture operations, namely, water quality management (i.e., monitoring and aeration), and feeding. The core concept of IREPA is to transform farm operations from the traditional reactive mode to proactive feedforward controlled processes underpinned by Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), which include an AI-driven farm operation and control and heterogeneous robotic systems connected through a high-speed low-latency network infrastructure to seamlessly collaborate with and assist the human operators.
Bing Ouyang
Bing Ouyang received a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, USA, in 2007. He joined Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute at Florida Atlantic University (HBOI-FAU) at Fort Pierce, FL, USA, in 2009, where he is currently an Associate Research Professor and Director of the Systems and Imaging Lab (SAIL). Before joining HBOI-FAU, he was with Texas Instruments (TI), Dallas, TX, USA. From 2003 to 2009, he was an Algorithm Engineer with the TI DLP ASIC algorithm team. The projects in his lab encompass developing electro-optical sensors and image enhancement and computer vision algorithms for the underwater scenes and other visually degraded environments and developing robotic platforms and other novel structures to support effective sensing solutions. He holds nine US patents in the areas of video and graphics format detection and electro-optical sensors. Dr. Ouyang was peer-elected to TI's Member of Technical Staff in 2001. He was a recipient of the 2013 Young Investigator Research Program award from the US Air Force Office of Scientific Research. He received the 2016 FAU Researcher of the Year award at the Assistant Professor level.
Performance Period: 12/01/2023 - 11/30/2026
Institution: Florida Atlantic University
Sponsor: USDA
Award Number: 2313299