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Flexible robots for intelligent automation of precision agriculture operations

Descripción del proyecto

Aumento de la versatilidad de la robótica agrícola

Cada vez se usan más robots agrícolas a fin de mejorar la producción agrícola. Con todo, el número de tareas específicas susceptibles de ser automatizadas reduce notablemente la flexibilidad de las tecnologías actuales, lo que afecta a su eficiencia y limita su aceptación. El objetivo del proyecto FLEXIGROBOTS, financiado con fondos europeos, es desarrollar una plataforma que ayudará a construir sistemas heterogéneos de múltiples robots, lo que permitirá una mejora sustancial de la flexibilidad a la hora de emplear robots ya existentes para diferentes tareas. Esto podría ayudar a generar datos de mayor valor a partir de una variedad de fuentes y sensores, lo que permitiría aumentar la autonomía y la precisión operativas y, al mismo tiempo, reducir en gran medida los costes y fomentar la inversión en robótica.

Objetivo

Agricultural robotics solutions can integrate a variety of robots for a variety of monitoring and targeted intervention tasks, to increase farm productivity, efficiency and sustainability through support of automated precision farming operations. Despite the rising farmer investment in farm/agricultural robots, most deployable robotic systems are meant to automate only specific tasks. The wide variety of tasks that need to be fulfilled in a single precision agriculture operation or mission makes it extremely unprofitable to address its automation with task-specific robots. These challenges result in a lack of flexibility of current heterogeneous multi-robot systems that poses low returns on investment and high risks for farmers. In order to become cost-effective, heterogeneous multi-robot systems needs to become more flexible by employing more versatile (e.g. multi-task) robots which collaborate to accomplish complex missions; ensuring scalable human oversight and intervention through adaptive mission control mechanisms (e.g. without information overload /overwhelming effort from the farmer); allowing the farmer to profit from robotics operational data. FlexiGroBots proposes a Platform for developing heterogeneous multi-robot systems and applications which allows for i) more versatility by using the same robots for different observation and intervention tasks, in different missions, throughout the crop life cycle, ii) more cooperation between heterogeneous (ground and aerial) robots to accomplish more complex missions; iii) more valuable data to generate accurate insights into the fields, crops and robotics operations by combining data from IoT sensors, satellites and data collected by the robots; iv) more autonomy for real-time adaptation of mission plans as well as robot behaviour at the crop level, given operational conditions and real-time insights; v) more precision to carry out specific tasks in a very localized way, gaining accuracy and lowering costs.

Convocatoria de propuestas

H2020-ICT-2018-20

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Convocatoria de subcontratación

H2020-ICT-2020-2

Régimen de financiación

IA - Innovation action

Coordinador

ATOS IT SOLUTIONS AND SERVICES IBERIA SL
Aportación neta de la UEn
€ 579 817,00
Dirección
RONDA DE EUROPA 5
28760 Tres Cantos Madrid
España

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Región
Comunidad de Madrid Comunidad de Madrid Madrid
Tipo de actividad
Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
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Coste total
€ 1 026 250,00

Participantes (16)