Farm Technology Group Prof.dr.ir. Eldert van Henten, program leader. Eldert is the head of the Farm Technolo- gy Group. He will contribute with his vast knowledge of agro-food, 20 years’ experience with vision and robotics in agriculture, and robotic systems integration resulting in proof-of-concept systems of harvesting robots, vi- sion-based weeding systems, egg-collecting robots, and…
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The FlexCRAFT program
FlexCRAFT is a Dutch research program to advance Cognitive Robotics for Flexible Agro-Food Technology. The program is executed by an excellent team of robotic researchers from five universities in collaboration with fifteen companies and supported by NWO/TTW.
Projects
The program consists of seven projects organized in two research lines (RL). In RL1, generic robotic capabilities are developed to allow robots to deal with the variations present in agro-food environments. In RL2, these generic capabilities are integrated, tested and evaluated in three agro-food use-cases. RL1 – Development of generic robotic capabilities P1: Active Perception…
Four generic research projects
To deal with these challenges, generic robotic methodologies will be developed in the four generic research projects, P1, P2, P3 and P4. These generic methodologies will be integrated, tested and evaluated in the use-case demonstrators.
FlexCRAFT
FlexCRAFT is a Dutch research program to advance Cognitive Robotics for Flexible Agro-Food Technology. The program is executed by an excellent team of robotic researchers from five universities in collaboration with fifteen companies and supported by NWO/TTW.
Four generic projects
To deal with these challenges, generic robotic methodologies will be developed in the four generic research projects, P1, P2, P3 and P4. These generic methodologies will be integrated, tested and evaluated in the use-case demonstrators.
Three use-case projects
The program revolves around three agro-food use-cases. The uses-cases give rise to generic robotic challenges in dealing with variation. Demonstrators for each of the use-cases will be developed in the use-case projects P5, P6 and P7.
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