Family - owned industrial company VDL Groep is taking an important step in the field of artificial intelligence ( AI ) . By partnering with Eindhoven - based VBTI , VDL will deploy deep learning technology more intensively in processes , system , and in the yield . VDL Groep is taking a minority wager in the AI specialist .
By learning from crowing data , bass acquisition algorithmic program become smarter and honorable . VBTI ’s AI engineering use camera systems to collect many trope , data point that can be used for purposes such as determining when asparagus can best be harvested or figure the yield of a hemangioma simplex harvest . In doing so , important , efficient steps are being taken to make our solid food organization more sustainable , which presently often require manual work .
AccelerationVDL Groep President Willem van der Leegte : ' We extend our client added note value through our mellow - quality product and service that leverage a combination of technologies , such as machinist , electronics , and software . mechanization progressively plays a supporting part in this endeavor . In this context , we see VBTI as an authoritative married person for speedup in the area of visual technology and AI . '
GrowthVBTI beginner Albert van Breemen : ' This strategical partnership with VDL will enable us to quicken our growth . ' VBTI is developing a proprietary platform that integrates bass discover technology into applications to optimize visual inspection tasks and automate product short letter . The utilised algorithmic rule find the most efficient way to perform production job , from pen up a box to running an entire assemblage ancestry .
Leaf - pick robotVDL Cropteq Robotics has develop and produce an agrarian robot political platform called CropTeq . The first version is a automaton that cuts leaves from cucumber plants , take a leak combined use of vision technology , robotics , mechatronics , hokey tidings , and knowledge from the farming and horticulture sectors . The automaton is equip with engineering from VBTI . ' No two cucumber plants are ever the same , ' Van Breemen explains . ' Having watch from data , our algorithm tells us on the dot where and when to cut leaves from cucumber plant . Moreover , the algorithm adapt to a shift environment , so the robot always do optimally irrespective of the glasshouse , season or plant variety . '
' VBTI ’s scientific yet virtual approach accelerates our exploitation , ' says managing director of VDL Cropteq Robotics , Harrie Schonewille . ' In a complex environs like a greenhouse , with lots of craw magnetic declination , cooperation with VBTI ’s medical specialist is very important for us . VBTI ’s deep learnedness platform enables us to speed our developments . '
The strategic partnership between VDL and VBTI will see VBTI ’s wise , self - learning technology deploy more wide at VDL than exclusively in the VDL Foodtech bunch . This could include , for illustration , presage when maintenance body of work needs to be carry out on machines , former detective work of any irregularity in product cognitive operation or streamlining inventorying management to foreclose shortage , for example .
For more selective information : VDL GroepHoevenweg 15652 AW Eindhoven , The NetherlandsT : +31 ( 0)40 292 50 00F : +31 ( 0)40 292 50 50E:[email protected]https://www.vdlgroep.com / en
