Paris, France and Madrid, Spain – April 8, 2021,
Atos these days announces that it is coordinating and actively contributing to the European venture “FlexiGroBots”. This initiative aims to empower robotic-makers, engineers and services companies to develop and deploy multi-robotic techniquesfor the agri-food items market to help farmers in their daily function. Within just the framework of the Horizon 2020 application, the venture will build an revolutionary platform to facilitate the use of robotics by means of a few significant-scale pilots across Europe.
The adoption of new technologies in the agricultural sector has elevated in modern decades, unleashing a new paradigm: “agriculture four.” exactly where robotics, AI and automation play a essential role in crop management and precision agriculture[1] by addressing real-time selection generating and monitoring demands. Having said that, recent robotic techniques are missing adaptability as they are constructed to carry out quite certain missions and are not in a position to deal with other tasks nor cooperate with other robotic technologies, top to a absence of ROI for farmers.
The FlexiGroBots venture will operate above 36 months with the aim of establishing and validating an open up platform which supports the creation of versatile and heterogeneous multi-robotic techniques that allow multi-robotic cooperation and autonomy. Robots incorporate UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) and UGVs (unmanned floor vehicles).
Within just FlexiGroBots, the Atos analysis and innovation group functions as the venture coordinator, guaranteeing the execution of the prepared routines and the over-all monitoring and supervision of the venture. Atos will assistance offer the architecture and prerequisite evaluation, guide the reference architecture and synchronize the a few pilots. It functions as a technical leader and most important contributor in the progress of robotic mission regulate centre abilities for the structure, arranging and supervision of heterogeneous multi-robotic functions, like robotic products and services enabled by Laptop or computer Vision procedures and in geospatial information evaluation. As a member of the Worldwide Information Place Affiliation (IDSA), Atos also operates on the progress of information area enablers for the information management of an industrial information area personalized to the agricultural context, letting safe information exchange across various stakeholders within just the agri-food items sector.
“This venture fits perfectly with Atos’ aim to contribute to the digitization of European industries, like agriculture, by means of the progress of revolutionary purposes and products and services primarily based on AI, information and trusted robotics”, remarks Daniel Calvo Alonso, Head of the ‘AI, Information and Robotics’ Unit in the Atos Investigation and Innovation department and coordinator of the FlexiGroBots venture.
The FlexiGroBots platform will be validated in a few real pilot assignments:
- Vineyards (Spain): Display the significant capacity and versatility of robots to carry out various tasks in vineyards, contributing to the top quality of grapes for wine manufacturing and to over-all economic profitability.
- Rapeseed fields (Finland): Display time-significant pest management and robotization of major machinery fleets in grassland management.
- Blueberries fields (Serbia and Lithuania): Display the probable of revolutionary robotic remedies – with innovative distant sensing procedures, deep learning and selection help – to increase blueberries.
Funded by the European Fee with 7 million euros, FlexiGroBots brings with each other a multidisciplinary consortium designed up of 16 various corporations and companies from 8 various nations. For extra info, visit https://flexigrobots-h2020.eu/
[1] Precision agriculture is a farming management thought primarily based on observing, measuring, and responding to inter and intra-area variability in crops.
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