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Cognitive Robotic System for Digitalized and Networked (Automated) Insect Farms

Projektbeschreibung

Robotik und Automatisierung für die Insektenzucht

Ernährungsunsicherheit stellt eine der größten Herausforderungen im 21. Jahrhundert dar. Essbare Insekten entpuppen sich als eine potentiell nachhaltige Lösung für die Ernährung von Mensch und Tier. Um die Massenproduktion und Zucht zu verbessern und die dabei entstehenden Kosten zu senken, müssen Fortschritte bei Forschung, Innovation, Zuchtprotokollen und Standardisierung sowie bei Robotisierung und Automatisierung von Insektenfarmen erzielt werden. Das EU-finanzierte Projekt CoRoSect konzentriert sich auf die Verbindung der Forschung zur Bionomie sowie zum Lebenszyklus von Insekten. Dazu nutzt es neue Instrumente der Robotik und Protokolle zur Automatisierung der Insektenzucht. Das Projekt wird innovative integrierte kognitive Robotik-Ökosysteme aufbauen, um damit Operationen zu ersetzen, die manuelle Arbeit oder eine ständige Überwachung durch Menschen während des Lebenszyklus der Insekten erfordern.

Ziel

By 2030 over 9 billion people, along with animals raised for food or kept as companions, will need to be fed generating inconsistencies between the demand and supply of food resources and promoting food insecurity by rendering food as unavailable, unaffordable, unevenly distributed or unsafe to eat. Therefore, food security represents the big challenge of the 21st century and in that context one promising potential sustainable solution is insect farming. Edible insects are set to be approved in EU by late 2020 as novel food and insects also being a value food sources for farming animals; however research, innovation, farming protocols development and standardization, and a technology leap by robotizing and automatizing the mass rearing in insect farms is needed in order to concurrently scale the production and dramatically decrease the production costs. CoRoSect addresses the dramatic need of coupling research on bionomics and life cycle of insects intended to be used as food and feed, with new robotic tools and protocols for mechanization and automation of insect farming, which is a critical point stressed by the Technical Expert Consultation on Assessing the Potential of Insects as Food and Feed in Assuring Food Security. CoRoSect forms a novel integrated cognitive robotic ecosystems where the repetitive but also cognitively and physically demanding tasks requiring increased manual effort or continuous human supervision during the insects’ lifecycle, are replaced by automatic robotic-based procedures which will also draw upon research performed on understanding biological, technical and economic requirements of insect rearing and optimizing all involved processes. Focusing on real insect rearing problems, CoRoSect technologies will evaluated through large-scale pilots in 5 insect farms placed in 5 European countries rearing three of the most commonly occurring species, thereby contributing essentially to a secure and sustainable food supply in Europe.

Aufforderung zur Vorschlagseinreichung

H2020-ICT-2018-20

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Unterauftrag

H2020-ICT-2020-2

Finanzierungsplan

IA - Innovation action

Koordinator

UNIVERSITEIT MAASTRICHT
Netto-EU-Beitrag
€ 860 250,00
Adresse
MINDERBROEDERSBERG 4
6200 MD Maastricht
Niederlande

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Region
Zuid-Nederland Limburg (NL) Zuid-Limburg
Aktivitätstyp
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Links
Gesamtkosten
€ 860 250,00

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