Atos coordinates European project FlexiGroBots to foster the use of robotics in agriculture

Paris, France and Madrid, Spain – April eight, 2021,

Atos nowadays announces that it is coordinating and actively contributing to the European project “FlexiGroBots”. This initiative aims to empower robotic-makers, engineers and service suppliers to make and deploy multi-robotic programsfor the agri-food stuff business to help farmers in their everyday operate. Within the framework of the Horizon 2020 plan, the project will establish an modern platform to facilitate the use of robotics by a few significant-scale pilots throughout Europe.

The adoption of new technologies in the agricultural sector has enhanced in the latest a long time, unleashing a new paradigm: “agriculture 4.” in which robotics, AI and automation enjoy a basic position in crop administration and precision agriculture[one] by addressing true-time decision making and checking requires. Even so, current robotic programs are lacking overall flexibility as they are designed to carry out incredibly precise missions and are not ready to cope with other responsibilities nor cooperate with other robotic technologies, major to a lack of ROI for farmers.

The FlexiGroBots project will operate about 36 months with the aim of producing and validating an open up platform which supports the creation of versatile and heterogeneous multi-robotic programs that help multi-robotic cooperation and autonomy. Robots include things like UAVs (unmanned aerial cars) and UGVs (unmanned ground cars).

Within FlexiGroBots, the Atos study and innovation group acts as the project coordinator, guaranteeing the execution of the planned things to do and the total checking and supervision of the project. Atos will enable deliver the architecture and necessity investigation, guide the reference architecture and synchronize the a few pilots. It acts as a complex leader and principal contributor in the advancement of robotic mission command middle abilities for the design, preparing and supervision of heterogeneous multi-robotic operations, which includes robotic solutions enabled by Computer system Vision procedures and in geospatial knowledge investigation. As a member of the Global Info Space Affiliation (IDSA), Atos also will work on the advancement of knowledge house enablers for the knowledge administration of an industrial knowledge house tailor-made to the agricultural context, letting secure knowledge trade throughout many stakeholders in the agri-food stuff sector.

“This project suits properly with Atos’ objective to contribute to the digitization of European industries, which includes agriculture, by the advancement of modern purposes and solutions dependent on AI, knowledge and dependable robotics”, opinions Daniel Calvo Alonso, Head of the ‘AI, Info and Robotics’ Unit in the Atos Investigation and Innovation office and coordinator of the FlexiGroBots project.

The FlexiGroBots platform will be validated in a few true pilot initiatives:

• Vineyards (Spain): Display the higher capacity and flexibility of robots to accomplish different responsibilities in vineyards, contributing to the high-quality of grapes for wine output and to total economic profitability.
• Rapeseed fields (Finland): Display time-critical pest administration and robotization of significant equipment fleets in grassland administration.
• Blueberries fields (Serbia and Lithuania): Display the opportunity of modern robotic answers – with superior distant sensing procedures, deep learning and decision help – to expand blueberries.

Funded by the European Fee with 7 million euros, FlexiGroBots brings collectively a multidisciplinary consortium produced up of 16 different corporations and providers from eight different nations. For additional info, stop by https://flexigrobots-h2020.eu/

 

[one] Precision agriculture is a farming administration strategy dependent on observing, measuring, and responding to inter and intra-subject variability in crops.

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