This document discusses bio-inspired techniques and their application to precision agriculture. It describes bio-inspired computational techniques that are capable of producing complex models to predict and describe site-specific crop behavior. These techniques include artificial intelligence, expert systems, computational intelligence techniques like artificial neural networks, evolutionary computation and fuzzy systems, as well as machine learning. The philosophy of bio-inspired systems is to study nature's inventions, tricks and artifices to develop engineering solutions with life-like properties.

1. Bio-inspired techniques and their
application to precision agriculture
Andrés Pérez-Uribe and Eduardo Sanchez
REDS Institute (http://reds.eivd.ch)
University of Applied Sciences of Western-Switzerland - EIVD
Emails: andres.perez-uribe@eivd.ch, eduardo.sanchez@eivd.ch

2. The CO-CH project
Bio-inspired computational techniques
capable of producing complex models
to predict/describe the site-specific
behavior of given crops

3. Bio-inspired techniques
The philosophy of bio-inspired systems
consists on studying nature’s “inventions”,
“tricks” and “artifices” to develop engineering
solutions endowed with life-like properties.
Chardon VELours et CROchet = VELCROTM