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

‘PestKillerBot’ uses drones to control pest command in floricultural fields

Paris, July nine, 2020

Atos, a worldwide chief in electronic transformation, right now announces the winners of its intercontinental student competitiveness, the Atos IT Obstacle. The winners had been introduced with their awards yesterday throughout the Ceremony which took location throughout the electronic Atos Technological innovation Times. Now in its ninth year, the competitiveness saw groups from 27 nations all around the earth compete on the concept of ‘Cooperative Synthetic Intelligence’.

After an initial very first round in which 16 groups had been picked, the Atos IT Obstacle Jury, made up of specialists and Atos executives, chose three finalists. These are:

1st prize and competitiveness winner: Asia Pacific University, Malaysia

“PestKillerBot” is an modern and simple-to-use software which eradicates the pest in floricultural fields employing drones which carry out pest command and facts assortment. The Drone simulator autonomously flies more than a discipline to detect diseases or hazardous bugs and kills them. The resolution architecture is divided into 4 components: the Area Allocation, Path Finding with Path Organizing, Pest Detection, and Drone Activation Simulation letting customers to see how the divided discipline is coated by each and every drone. The students have designed a drone prototype with a 3D printer and several factors.

The group won €10,000 and each and every student was provided the prospect to do possibly an internship at Atos or to perform together with the organization to produce their project.

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

This modern resolution called “Digital Water” aims to produce drinking water use options to households and the drinking water supply organization. It is a world-wide-web software that predicts drinking water use and the drinking water stage across 3 dams. The goal of the project is to supply specifics so that customers can keep track of use concentrations, squander, and difficulties to enhance drinking water useful resource administration. The group has five years’ worth of facts. They have experienced their modes for 4 years and have analyzed it for just one year.

The group won €5,000 and each and every student was provided the prospect to do possibly an internship at Atos or to perform together with the organization to produce their project.

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

With an modern resolution to enhance site visitors, the “CTC – Cooperative Traffic Control” application simulates site visitors mild controls employing Deep Reinforcement Understanding. Just about every junction acts as an agent that can take an motion (extends or lessens the environmentally friendly/purple time) based on the cars and trucks and ready time in the lane. The software also will get info from the nearest junctions. The group has experienced and tuned the product to get the most effective product configuration for the site visitors mild command.

The group won €3,000 and each and every student was provided the prospect to do possibly an internship at Atos or to perform together with the organization to produce their project.

This year, the jury also awarded a unique prize to an entry that particularly stood out, for each the significance of the subject tackled and the dedication of the group.

Distinctive Jury prize: Loughborough University, United Kingdom

“Initial Study Swarm” is a resolution for a maze simulator where drone agents accumulate know-how about a maze more than a set period of time. The drones can share the info they come across to look for ruined structures by producing a 3D map or representation of it immediately after an earthquake or where there is a deficiency of online coverage.

At the end of the ceremony, Sophie Proust, Team Chief Complex Officer, Atos explained: ”AI technology is revolutionizing all sectors of the economic climate and society, and right now the outstanding students in the Atos IT Obstacle demonstrated authentic entrepreneurial skills by giving modern and concrete options that meet up with the new requires of cooperative AI expressed by organizations and individuals. I am impressed by the exceptional creativity and the high-quality of the contributions of the award-successful finalists. Congratulations to our winners and to all of our contestants!”

The Atos IT Obstacle 2021 was also announced. Following year, students will have the prospect to produce modern ideas all around the concept of “How electronic can support decarbonize non-digital”.

Considering that its creation in 2012, the Atos IT Obstacle has empowered students from all around the earth to produce programs related to key trends in the electronic revolution, these kinds of as smart mobility, related cars and trucks, interactive media, related daily life, the “right to be forgotten”, blockchain and artificial intelligence. College students are mentored by associates of Atos Scientific Group who supply technological and practical assistance, advice and encouragement.

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