- Cotton Engineering

Cotton Engineering Graduate Students
Construction of the Micro Gin Lab at Hobgood
Phenotyping Unmanned Ground Vehicle used for collecting phenotyping data for corn and sorghum.
The research Micro Gin on our campus was donated by Cotton Industries in the 1960s and is still operational today.
UAVs on display.
Ground based multispectral image collection in the nitrogen management cotton plants
Yellow plastic wrapping around feeder
Simulation: Harvest operation involving the cooperation between a grain cart and a combine
From left to right: seed cotton from the field, cotton seed from the gin, cotton lint from the gin, and harmful plastic that has to be removed from the cotton for quality purposes.
Newly installed Module Feeder system, which allows us to test plastic contamination at the feeder rollers.
Work station to hand sift through ginned cotton to determine how much plastic remains after ginning.
Graduate Student, Hussein Gharakhani, 3D printing an End-Effector housing and comparing the printed dimensions with the actual amounts
Cotton Weighing trailer, cotton module builder and cotton boll buggy ready by the cotton field. Lubbock, TX
Cotton stripper used with a onboard weight-based calibration system
Mass flow sensors located on a cotton stripper
Energy cane imagery collection using DJI Matrice 100 platform with SlantRange 3p sensor
Graduate students conducting Ground Control Points (GCPs) survey with post-processed kinematic (PPK) V-map Air Model GPS system
Graduate students in the field
Graduate student Pappu Yadav, collecting aerial data using DJI Matrice 100 quadcopter at the TAMU Farm
Graduate students at the SPIE conference in Baltimore, MD 2019
Experiment of plastic contamination detection in the cotton fields.

Combine harvester with grain cart driving along side.

Members of Agrilife research holding UAV drones

Yellow plastic stuck in cotton module feeder

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Texas A&M AgriLife Research has had over a 100 year history in engineering research associated with the cotton industry in Texas, the U.S., and internationally.

The logo for the Cotton Engineering program includes imagery alluding to the convergence of the four ideas that pervade this program’s teaching, research, and extension efforts:

Cotton- the cotton boll at the center

Data and Sensors- the scattered image pixels at the upper left of the cotton boll

Machinery- the gear shape that surrounds the cotton boll

Ginning- the gin saw blade at the periphery