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

‘PestKillerBot’ makes use of drones to deal with pest manage in floricultural fields

Paris, July nine, 2020

Atos, a international leader in electronic transformation, right now announces the winners of its international student opposition, the Atos IT Challenge. The winners were presented with their awards yesterday through the Ceremony which took position through the electronic Atos Technology Times. Now in its ninth year, the opposition noticed groups from 27 international locations close to the environment compete on the theme of ‘Cooperative Artificial Intelligence’.

Soon after an preliminary very first round in which 16 groups were chosen, the Atos IT Challenge Jury, manufactured up of gurus and Atos executives, chose three finalists. These are:

• 1st prize and opposition winner: Asia Pacific College, Malaysia

“PestKillerBot” is an revolutionary and effortless-to-use software which removes the pest in floricultural fields utilizing drones which conduct pest manage and knowledge assortment. The Drone simulator autonomously flies about a industry to detect disorders or hazardous bugs and kills them. The remedy architecture is divided into 4 components: the Spot Allocation, Path Discovering with Path Organizing, Pest Detection, and Drone Activation Simulation allowing customers to see how the divided industry is covered by every drone. The pupils have developed a drone prototype with a 3D printer and several components.

The crew won €10,000 and every student was available the option to do both an internship at Atos or to function jointly with the firm to produce their venture.

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

This revolutionary remedy identified as “Digital Water” aims to produce h2o usage alternatives to households and the h2o offer firm. It is a web software that predicts h2o usage and the h2o level across three dams. The intention of the venture is to supply facts so that customers can track usage amounts, squander, and challenges to increase h2o useful resource administration. The crew has 5 years’ worth of knowledge. They have experienced their modes for 4 yrs and have tested it for one particular year.

The crew won €5,000 and every student was available the option to do both an internship at Atos or to function jointly with the firm to produce their venture.

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

With an revolutionary remedy to increase website traffic, the “CTC – Cooperative Targeted visitors Control” app simulates website traffic light controls utilizing Deep Reinforcement Studying. Every single junction acts as an agent that will take an action (extends or decreases the inexperienced/pink time) depending on the cars and ready time in the lane. The software also receives details from the nearest junctions. The crew has experienced and tuned the design to get the ideal design configuration for the website traffic light manage.

The crew won €3,000 and every student was available the option to do both an internship at Atos or to function jointly with the firm to produce their venture.

This year, the jury also awarded a particular prize to an entry that especially stood out, for both of those the significance of the topic tackled and the dedication of the crew.

• Distinctive Jury prize: Loughborough College, United Kingdom

“Initial Survey Swarm” is a remedy for a maze simulator the place drone brokers accumulate expertise about a maze about a established interval. The drones can share the details they come across to research wrecked structures by generating a 3D map or representation of it following an earthquake or the place there is a deficiency of internet protection.

At the close of the ceremony, Sophie Proust, Team Main Complex Officer, Atos reported: ”AI technologies is revolutionizing all sectors of the overall economy and society, and right now the excellent pupils in the Atos IT Challenge shown true entrepreneurial skills by offering revolutionary and concrete alternatives that meet up with the new requirements of cooperative AI expressed by firms and persons. I am impressed by the remarkable creative imagination 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 Challenge 2021 was also declared. Subsequent year, pupils will have the option to produce revolutionary principles close to the theme of “How electronic can assist decarbonize non-digital”.

Given that its development in 2012, the Atos IT Challenge has empowered pupils from close to the environment to produce purposes connected to key trends in the electronic revolution, this kind of as sensible mobility, connected cars, interactive media, connected daily life, the “right to be forgotten”, blockchain and artificial intelligence. College students are mentored by customers of Atos Scientific Neighborhood who supply technical and functional guidance, suggestions and encouragement.

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