Human and Animal Factors Engineering Laboratory
המעבדה להנדסת גורמי אנוש ובעלי-חיים בחקלאות
Funded Projects
2025 - 2029
The Office of the Chief Scientist - Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security
Development and implementation of integrated approaches combining plant protection, fertilization, agronomic practices, genetics, and sustainability to increase yield and profitability for tomato growers in the Tekuma Region.
2025 - 2027
The Israel Dairy Board
Short- and long-term effects of stressful epochs on group and individual behavior patterns, yield, health indicators as a basis for developing a computational tool for dairy farm welfare management.
2025 - 2028
The Office of the Chief Scientist - Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security
Improving avocado harvest efficiency by enhancing fruit visibility: Innovative wearable device or the human picker
2023 - 2026
The Office of the Chief Scientist - Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security
Using cognitive enrichment to measure a cow’s mood and improve welfare continuously and automatically.
2022 - 2025
The Office of the Chief Scientist - Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security
Development of an ML system based on commercial packinghouse data for predicting ‘Or’ mandarin torage quality towards informed logistics management.
2021 - 2024
The Office of the Chief Scientist - Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security
Development of a database based decision-support system for the optimization of date thinning.
2020 - 2021
The Office of the Chief Scientist - Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security
Research and development of apple harvesting protocol using mechanized platforms.
2020 - 2021
The Israel Dairy Board
Physiological-based pain assessment of clinical and subclinical dairy cow mastitis during milking.
2020 - 2022
The Israel Innovation Authority
Development of models for estimating the shelf life of grapes and citrus fruits on the basis of real-time fruit quality data and environmental conditions.
2020 - 2023
The Office of the Chief Scientist - Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security & The Plants Production & Marketing Board
Development of apple harvesting protocol using mechanized platforms for increasing yields and reducing damage in the apple industry.
2019 - 2021
The Office of the Chief Scientist - Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security
Development of a robotic thinning system for Majhool dates.
2018 - 2020
The Office of the Chief Scientist - Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security
Research and development of physiological sensor system for assessing pain in dairy cows.