Atos coordinates European project FlexiGroBots to foster the use of robotics in agriculture
Paris, France and Madrid, Spain – April eight, 2021,
Atos today announces that it is coordinating and actively contributing to the European job “FlexiGroBots”. This initiative aims to empower robot-makers, engineers and support companies to construct and deploy multi-robot methodsfor the agri-meals market to help farmers in their every day function. Inside the framework of the Horizon 2020 plan, the job will build an innovative platform to aid the use of robotics by way of three significant-scale pilots throughout Europe.
The adoption of new systems in the agricultural sector has greater in new yrs, unleashing a new paradigm: “agriculture 4.” the place robotics, AI and automation enjoy a essential role in crop administration and precision agriculture[1] by addressing serious-time decision creating and monitoring needs. Even so, latest robotic methods are missing flexibility as they are created to carry out extremely precise missions and are not in a position to cope with other tasks nor cooperate with other robotic systems, main to a lack of ROI for farmers.
The FlexiGroBots job will run more than 36 months with the intention of establishing and validating an open platform which supports the creation of versatile and heterogeneous multi-robot methods that allow multi-robot cooperation and autonomy. Robots include UAVs (unmanned aerial autos) and UGVs (unmanned floor autos).
Inside FlexiGroBots, the Atos exploration and innovation group functions as the job coordinator, guaranteeing the execution of the prepared functions and the overall monitoring and supervision of the job. Atos will support provide the architecture and prerequisite examination, lead the reference architecture and synchronize the three pilots. It functions as a technical leader and most important contributor in the enhancement of robotic mission command center abilities for the structure, organizing and supervision of heterogeneous multi-robot functions, like robotic services enabled by Computer system Eyesight techniques and in geospatial data examination. As a member of the Intercontinental Data Area Affiliation (IDSA), Atos also performs on the enhancement of data house enablers for the data administration of an industrial data house tailor-made to the agricultural context, permitting secure data exchange throughout numerous stakeholders within the agri-meals sector.
“This job matches properly with Atos’ aim to lead to the digitization of European industries, like agriculture, by way of the enhancement of innovative applications and services primarily based on AI, data and trustworthy robotics”, reviews Daniel Calvo Alonso, Head of the ‘AI, Data and Robotics’ Device in the Atos Exploration and Innovation section and coordinator of the FlexiGroBots job.
The FlexiGroBots platform will be validated in three serious pilot projects:
- Vineyards (Spain): Exhibit the superior capability and flexibility of robots to perform distinctive tasks in vineyards, contributing to the high quality of grapes for wine generation and to overall financial profitability.
- Rapeseed fields (Finland): Exhibit time-crucial pest administration and robotization of hefty machinery fleets in grassland administration.
- Blueberries fields (Serbia and Lithuania): Exhibit the possible of innovative robotic answers – with sophisticated distant sensing techniques, deep discovering and decision help – to improve blueberries.
Funded by the European Fee with seven million euros, FlexiGroBots provides alongside one another a multidisciplinary consortium built up of 16 distinctive corporations and companies from eight distinctive countries. For additional details, take a look at https://flexigrobots-h2020.eu/
[1] Precision agriculture is a farming administration principle primarily based on observing, measuring, and responding to inter and intra-area variability in crops.
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