Oral lichenoid drug reaction with autoantibodies in peripheral blood: Case report

AbstractA 51-year-old man complained of oral roughness and pain. At the age of 49 years, he was admitted for 8 months for bipolar emotional disorder. Oral administration of lithium carbonate was started. Extensive, hemorrhagic, erythema-mixed white lace-like patches were noted on the lip, buccal mucosae, and lingual margins. On biopsy, all lesions were consistent with oral lichen planus. A drug lymphocyte stimulation test showed a positive reaction to lithium carbonate. Blood examination revealed marked increases in the peripheral blood levels of antinuclear antibodies. To relieve the symptoms, the systemic administration of prednisolone was performed while continuing the lithium carbonate

Report on the 5th Tomato‐harvesting Robot Competition

Tomato is one of the important fruit vegetables and most tomatoes are produced in the greenhouses, or large-scale farms, where the high temperature and humidity, and long harvest age force the farmer heavy works. To develop the tomato harvesting robot, many research issues exist such as manipulator design, end-effector design, collaborative behavior, artificial intelligence, motor control, image processing, target recognition and so on. With an aim to promote the automation of tomato harvesting, we have organized the tomato harvesting robot competition since 2014. In this paper, we report on the results of 5th tomato harvesting robot competition in 2018.The 2020 International Conference on Artificial Life and Robotics (ICAROB 2020), January 13-16, 2020, B-Con Plaza, Beppu, Oit

Toward Smart Tomato Greenhouse: The Fourth Tomato Harvesting Robot Competition

Agriculture, one of the most important industries for human life, is faced with serious problems, the shortage of workers, the falling birthrate and the aging population, global warming and natural disasters, etc. Tomato is one of the most important fruit vegetables, and most tomatoes in Japan are cultivated in the greenhouses, or large scale farms as the solution for effective production toward smart greenhouses, whereas the high temperature and high humidity, construction and management costs are big problems and technologies such as environmental control system, factory automation technology, AI, robotics are required. We had held Tomato Harvesting Robot competition from 2014 toward realization of smart tomato greenhouse aiming at promote the automated tomato harvesting to reduce the working time of harvesting. In this paper, we report on the tomato harvesting robot competition and the results mainly from the fourth competition

A Greenhouse Project toward Smart Agriculture

In the future estimation of 2050, the food demand increases 70% and the production decreases 15% caused by global warming, and farmer population be 1/5 of current workers. Until 2050, we need an agricultural system of twice production with the same farmland area and 5 times effective operations. To realize the sustainable society, smart agriculture including robot technology, AI, IoT is one of the solutions for food issues. We have been working for a greenhouse project under enPiT-everi for implementation of robotic, AI and IoT technologies to agriculture. In this paper, we introduce the project and robotic applications.The 2021 International Conference on Artificial Life and Robotics (ICAROB 2021), January 21-24, 2021, Higashi-Hiroshima (オンライン開催に変更

Tomato-Harvesting Robot Competition: Aims and Developed Robot of 6th Competitions

In general, farm work is often hard work. In recent years, the number of farm laborers has been decreasing due to the aging of the workforce. Therefore, there is a need to automate agricultural work, and we are organizing a tomato harvesting robot competition to automate tomato harvesting. The competition includes a Junior Division for high school students and a Senior Division for college students. In this paper, we report on the results of 6th tomato harvesting robot competition.The 2021 International Conference on Artificial Life and Robotics (ICAROB 2021), January 21-24, 2021, Higashi-Hiroshima (オンライン開催に変更