Asia Pacific University wins the Atos IT Challenge 2020 with innovative app

‘PestKillerBot’ uses drones to deal with pest handle in floricultural fields

Paris, July 9, 2020

Atos, a world-wide chief in electronic transformation, nowadays announces the winners of its international pupil competitors, the Atos IT Challenge. The winners had been introduced with their awards yesterday for the duration of the Ceremony which took spot for the duration of the electronic Atos Know-how Days. Now in its ninth 12 months, the competitors observed groups from 27 nations around the world about the planet compete on the topic of ‘Cooperative Artificial Intelligence’.

After an initial 1st spherical in which sixteen groups had been chosen, the Atos IT Challenge Jury, made up of authorities and Atos executives, chose a few finalists. These are:

• 1st prize and competitors winner: Asia Pacific University, Malaysia

“PestKillerBot” is an innovative and straightforward-to-use application which eradicates the pest in floricultural fields applying drones which conduct pest handle and info selection. The Drone simulator autonomously flies around a area to detect illnesses or harmful bugs and kills them. The alternative architecture is divided into 4 sections: the Region Allocation, Path Locating with Path Arranging, Pest Detection, and Drone Activation Simulation allowing customers to see how the divided area is protected by every single drone. The college students have produced a drone prototype with a 3D printer and quite a few parts.

The crew won €10,000 and every single pupil was presented the option to do both an internship at Atos or to perform with each other with the company to build their project.

• 2^nd prize: Instituto Tecnologico de Estudios Superiores Monterrey, Mexico

This innovative alternative referred to as “Digital Water” aims to supply water consumption options to households and the water provide company. It is a web application that predicts water consumption and the water level across three dams. The aim of the project is to present details so that customers can track consumption amounts, squander, and concerns to boost water resource administration. The crew has five years’ worthy of of info. They have skilled their modes for 4 several years and have tested it for 1 12 months.

The crew won €5,000 and every single pupil was presented the option to do both an internship at Atos or to perform with each other with the company to build their project.

• three^rd prize: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Croatia

With an innovative alternative to boost website traffic, the “CTC – Cooperative Website traffic Control” application simulates website traffic light controls applying Deep Reinforcement Learning. Each junction acts as an agent that usually takes an action (extends or lessens the eco-friendly/crimson time) relying on the vehicles and waiting around time in the lane. The application also will get details from the nearest junctions. The crew has skilled and tuned the model to get the very best model configuration for the website traffic light handle.

The crew won €3,000 and every single pupil was presented the option to do both an internship at Atos or to perform with each other with the company to build their project.

This 12 months, the jury also awarded a exclusive prize to an entry that specifically stood out, for both of those the significance of the matter tackled and the determination of the crew.

• Specific Jury prize: Loughborough University, United Kingdom

“Initial Study Swarm” is a alternative for a maze simulator the place drone agents acquire expertise about a maze around a established time period. The drones can share the details they locate to lookup ruined properties by making a 3D map or illustration of it just after an earthquake or the place there is a absence of web protection.

At the end of the ceremony, Sophie Proust, Team Main Technological Officer, Atos claimed: ”AI engineering is revolutionizing all sectors of the economy and society, and nowadays the excellent college students in the Atos IT Challenge shown actual entrepreneurial abilities by providing innovative and concrete options that satisfy the new wants of cooperative AI expressed by enterprises and individuals. I am impressed by the fantastic creativity and the high quality of the contributions of the award-profitable finalists. Congratulations to our winners and to all of our contestants!”

 The Atos IT Challenge 2021 was also announced. Subsequent 12 months, college students will have the option to build innovative concepts about the topic of “How electronic can assistance decarbonize non-digital”.

Considering the fact that its generation in 2012, the Atos IT Challenge has empowered college students from about the planet to build purposes related to key tendencies in the electronic revolution, these as intelligent mobility, related vehicles, interactive media, related lifestyle, the “right to be forgotten”, blockchain and artificial intelligence. Students are mentored by associates of Atos Scientific Group who present complex and realistic support, tips and encouragement.

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