The internet Smart Horticulture saw the light in 2018 . Since then , the robot builder have been committed to accelerate instauration in horticulture . Almost thirty companies have already join .
Now they require to take the next steps . That is why on 11 May an online meeting was held under the leadership of Stephanie Riffo and Irma Oosterom - van Roest van Berenschot on the report of robotics in the independent greenhouse . Several companies were given the chance to talk about their robotics solutions . vulgar denominator ? Everyone has to and wants to take the next stairs .
Growficient works with grower towards autonomous irrigation
Confirming a bowel feelingFor example , Dirk Jan Mulder of Growficient was give the opportunity to introduce himself . He develops sensors and a political program to supervise and optimize irrigation for agriculturist . After a good year , the foundation is in place and with five large flaccid fruit growers they will take the first steps towards autonomous irrigation , which will be based on plant needs . The first connector with a climate computer has also already been see .
Dirk Jan say that growers are in the main draw to the serenity and security department that the platform now devote them . In addition , the growers also have a bowel touch sensation about how much they think they can relieve on irrigation and/or how they expect to derive added value from optimize the irrigation . This is , for example , said Dirk Jan , because grower are presently still occupied with incessantly react to weather forecasts or mensuration , but , for instance , only with 12 plant on a scale for an entire greenhouse full of Lycopersicon esculentum . Strawberry growers expect to be able to increase their takings by up to ten per centum by using the organization to control flora motivation .
Metazet FormFlex deliberately acquire a ' simple-minded trolley ' together with Micothon
Purposefully simple " trolley"Dolf van der Hoeven of Metazet FormFlex was already further ahead in that respect . He was allowed to talk about the autonomous driving tramcar that the company developed . measuredly " a trolley " , because the technology is not yet " so smart " that it can be predict a automaton , agree to Dolf . However , the technique that are used are test and reliable , he said , produce the trolley " an ideal basis to affix with , for example , cameras , sensors or robotic arm " .
Metazet consciously chose FormFlex , which recrudesce the trolley together with Micothon , to keep it " simple " . As a result , the trolley can now get autonomously through the greenhouse and move itself well from pipe rail to tube rail , also over the concrete path .
The first series of trolley car has already been made and many mental testing kilometers have been driven . It is carry that they will soon be conducting research into the applications programme of UV - C light on the cart to automatically disinfect the crop in the greenhouse .
exposure of a field test with the carpet sweeper in July 2018
Harvest robot supportThe Sweeper Piper nigrum harvest golem from Wageningen University & Research has also been driving through the greenhouse . The project that has been underway for years provided the necessary useful noesis and information about problems and challenge . For example , the robot in the pepper crop was still disk by how the crop grows . ' Finding ' the yield between the leaves is not easy , even for the smart systems with which the automaton is equipped .
Jos Balendonck of WUR said that the robot will not ( for the time being ) be able to pick 100 % autonomously in the greenhouse under the current conditions . There are , however , chance to use the golem as excess accompaniment for the picker in the greenhouse . This involves bet for an economically profitable app . That will not be the case if the robot picks 90 % of the peppers , because then masses still have to seem for the other pct . Conversely , a robot that only picks 10 % is also not adept enough .
As an example of a potentially profitable combination , Jos present a " simplified version " of the Sweeper that pick 25 % of the peppers in a two - stem organisation and then has the rest picked by humans . Or the same golem with an upgrade that picks 50 % of the fruit and then the rest period by humans . At the moment , however , a variety with less farewell and less yield clustering is still required .
AccelerationIn addition to the above - note speakers , Colinda de Beer from InnovationQuarter spoke about RoboCrops . This program , set up by various company in the sector , is aimed at accelerating the ontogenesis and app program of robotics in greenhouse gardening . This have-to doe with more than just the engineering , but also how the great unwashed bring with the golem and new revenue models .
The Netwerk Smart Horticulture also wants to take steps in collaboration in projects . In July Netwerk Smart Horticulture hop to reunite with even more members . The cardinal theme is : The greenhouse as an energy rootage .
For more information :
Netwerk Smart Horticulturewww.netwerksmarthorticulture.nl
Irma Oosterom - van Roest[email protected]+31 6 2391 67 51
Stephanie Riffo[email protected]+31 6 29 39 30 04
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