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

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

Paris, July nine, 2020

Atos, a world wide chief in electronic transformation, now announces the winners of its international college student levels of competition, the Atos IT Obstacle. The winners were being introduced with their awards yesterday during the Ceremony which took spot during the electronic Atos Technologies Times. Now in its ninth yr, the levels of competition observed groups from 27 nations around the environment contend on the topic of ‘Cooperative Synthetic Intelligence’.

Soon after an initial initial round in which 16 groups were being selected, the Atos IT Obstacle Jury, produced up of industry experts and Atos executives, chose a few finalists. These are:

• 1st prize and levels of competition winner: Asia Pacific University, Malaysia

“PestKillerBot” is an modern and quick-to-use application which eliminates the pest in floricultural fields utilizing drones which execute pest control and details selection. The Drone simulator autonomously flies about a area to detect ailments or harmful bugs and kills them. The answer architecture is divided into four parts: the Area Allocation, Path Getting with Path Setting up, Pest Detection, and Drone Activation Simulation letting users to see how the divided area is protected by each drone. The learners have created a drone prototype with a 3D printer and several parts.

The team won €10,000 and each college student was made available the option to do both an internship at Atos or to get the job done with each other with the firm to develop their project.

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

This modern answer known as “Digital Water” aims to provide water usage solutions to households and the water source firm. It is a website application that predicts water usage and the water level throughout 3 dams. The intention of the project is to deliver details so that users can keep track of usage degrees, squander, and issues to make improvements to water resource administration. The team has 5 years’ really worth of details. They have trained their modes for four decades and have tested it for a person yr.

The team won €5,000 and each college student was made available the option to do both an internship at Atos or to get the job done with each other with the firm to develop their project.

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

With an modern answer to make improvements to site visitors, the “CTC – Cooperative Traffic Control” application simulates site visitors gentle controls utilizing Deep Reinforcement Studying. Every single junction functions as an agent that takes an action (extends or lessens the environmentally friendly/crimson time) based on the cars and ready time in the lane. The application also will get facts from the closest junctions. The team has trained and tuned the product to get the greatest product configuration for the site visitors gentle control.

The team won €3,000 and each college student was made available the option to do both an internship at Atos or to get the job done with each other with the firm to develop their project.

This yr, the jury also awarded a specific prize to an entry that significantly stood out, for each the significance of the matter tackled and the commitment of the team.

• Specific Jury prize: Loughborough University, United Kingdom

“Initial Survey Swarm” is a answer for a maze simulator where by drone agents obtain awareness about a maze about a set interval. The drones can share the facts they obtain to look for wrecked structures by producing a 3D map or illustration of it right after an earthquake or where by there is a absence of internet protection.

At the stop of the ceremony, Sophie Proust, Group Chief Complex Officer, Atos claimed: ”AI technological innovation is revolutionizing all sectors of the financial system and society, and now the brilliant learners in the Atos IT Obstacle demonstrated authentic entrepreneurial skills by giving modern and concrete solutions that fulfill the new wants of cooperative AI expressed by organizations and men and women. I am amazed by the excellent creativity and the high quality of the contributions of the award-winning finalists. Congratulations to our winners and to all of our contestants!”

 The Atos IT Obstacle 2021 was also introduced. Up coming yr, learners will have the option to develop modern principles around the topic of “How electronic can assistance decarbonize non-digital”.

Since its creation in 2012, the Atos IT Obstacle has empowered learners from around the environment to develop apps related to important trends in the electronic revolution, these kinds of as sensible mobility, related cars, interactive media, related life, the “right to be forgotten”, blockchain and synthetic intelligence. Learners are mentored by associates of Atos Scientific Local community who deliver complex and practical assistance, tips and encouragement.

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