Asia Pacific University wins the Atos IT Challenge 2020 with innovative app
‘PestKillerBot’ makes use of drones to manage pest regulate in floricultural fields
Paris, July 9, 2020
Atos, a world-wide leader in digital transformation, now announces the winners of its intercontinental student level of competition, the Atos IT Challenge. The winners ended up introduced with their awards yesterday throughout the Ceremony which took spot throughout the digital Atos Engineering Times. Now in its ninth 12 months, the level of competition saw groups from 27 countries about the environment compete on the theme of ‘Cooperative Synthetic Intelligence’.
After an preliminary initially round in which sixteen groups ended up picked, the Atos IT Challenge Jury, made up of authorities and Atos executives, selected 3 finalists. These are:
- 1st prize and level of competition winner: Asia Pacific University, Malaysia
“PestKillerBot” is an innovative and uncomplicated-to-use software which gets rid of the pest in floricultural fields utilizing drones which carry out pest regulate and details collection. The Drone simulator autonomously flies more than a area to detect ailments or hazardous bugs and kills them. The answer architecture is divided into 4 sections: the Location Allocation, Path Locating with Path Arranging, Pest Detection, and Drone Activation Simulation permitting people to see how the divided area is coated by each individual drone. The college students have formulated a drone prototype with a 3D printer and quite a few components.
The workforce gained €10,000 and each individual student was made available the chance to do either an internship at Atos or to function together with the organization to produce their undertaking.
- 2nd prize: Instituto Tecnologico de Estudios Superiores Monterrey, Mexico
This innovative answer referred to as “Digital Water” aims to supply water usage methods to homes and the water offer organization. It is a web software that predicts water usage and the water level throughout three dams. The purpose of the undertaking is to give particulars so that people can monitor usage stages, waste, and issues to enhance water resource administration. The workforce has 5 years’ value of details. They have trained their modes for 4 many years and have analyzed it for a person 12 months.
The workforce gained €5,000 and each individual student was made available the chance to do either an internship at Atos or to function together with the organization to produce their undertaking.
- threerd prize: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Croatia
With an innovative answer to enhance website traffic, the “CTC – Cooperative Visitors Control” application simulates website traffic mild controls utilizing Deep Reinforcement Learning. Every junction acts as an agent that usually takes an motion (extends or reduces the green/red time) depending on the vehicles and ready time in the lane. The software also receives info from the closest junctions. The workforce has trained and tuned the model to get the best model configuration for the website traffic mild regulate.
The workforce gained €3,000 and each individual student was made available the chance to do either an internship at Atos or to function together with the organization to produce their undertaking.
This 12 months, the jury also awarded a particular prize to an entry that significantly stood out, for both of those the significance of the subject matter tackled and the dedication of the workforce.
- Unique Jury prize: Loughborough University, United Kingdom
“Initial Survey Swarm” is a answer for a maze simulator where drone brokers collect information about a maze more than a set period. The drones can share the info they uncover to look for destroyed structures by creating a 3D map or representation of it just after an earthquake or where there is a absence of net coverage.
At the close of the ceremony, Sophie Proust, Group Chief Technological Officer, Atos claimed: ”AI technologies is revolutionizing all sectors of the economic climate and modern society, and now the amazing college students in the Atos IT Challenge demonstrated actual entrepreneurial skills by offering innovative and concrete methods that satisfy the new desires of cooperative AI expressed by corporations and individuals. I am impressed by the superb creativity and the high quality of the contributions of the award-winning finalists. Congratulations to our winners and to all of our contestants!”
The Atos IT Challenge 2021 was also announced. Following 12 months, college students will have the chance to produce innovative ideas about the theme of “How digital can aid decarbonize non-digital”.
Given that its development in 2012, the Atos IT Challenge has empowered college students from about the environment to produce apps linked to key developments in the digital revolution, these as good mobility, linked vehicles, interactive media, linked existence, the “right to be forgotten”, blockchain and synthetic intelligence. Pupils are mentored by customers of Atos Scientific Group who give technical and practical aid, guidance and encouragement.
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