Aero41 participates in a EUR 7 million project funded by the EU

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09.04.2021
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For the SESAME project, various players including Lausanne based Aero41 aim to provide advanced software design and deployment capabilities that handle the uncertainty, variability, and interplay of safety and security assurance challenges posed by Multi-Robot Systems. Seven million Euros will flow into the project. 

Aero41 is a European pioneer in the development of UAVs dedicated to crop protection and chassis with high payload capacity. The startup offers a flexible and intelligent platform that will integrate AI and collect data to make crop protection more eco-responsible while being effective to ensure the necessary yields. 

Thanks to its innovative technology, Aero41 together with Domaine L&R Kox, Luxsense and SnT at the University of Luxembourg are partnering with a consortium of leading European Universities, Research Institutes, Industrial and Government Organisations for the SESAME project (Secure and Safe Multi-Robot Systems). They will address the complexity of developing systems of interconnected robots to perform tasks whose complexity and cost are too high for a single robot. The project will provide advanced software design and deployment capabilities that handle the uncertainty, variability, and interplay of safety and security assurance challenges posed by Multi-Robot Systems (MRS). 

The advanced development and deployment technologies will enable a new generation of MRS to deliver solutions for key European sectors including Healthcare, Manufacturing, Agri-food, and Infrastructure Inspection, where groups of interconnected robots are better able to carry out critical tasks such as disinfecting hospitals, managing farms and crops, rapidly adapting production lines to new products, and maintaining energy transmission facilities. 

Aero41, Domaine L&R Kox, SnT, and Luxsense will be involved in the pilot deployments and validation of the new SESAME platform and will target use of the new technologies in viticulture to validate the capabilities provided for new MRS solutions. The goal of the three partnering companies Domaine L&R Kox, Aero41 and LuxSense is, with the help of SESAME, to develop a data acquisition and analysis system to be applied in viticulture. SESAME will facilitate to pursue the digital transformation in viticulture. Two research groups at SnT, the Space Robotics research group (SpaceR) and the Automation & Robotics research group (ARG), will develop novel sensor fusion and planning algorithms to assure safety and security while operating multiple robots.

Seven million investment
The SESAME project (Secure and Safe Multi-Robot Systems) is investing €7 million to develop an open, modular, configurable platform for systematic engineering of dependable MRS. The SESAME project is financed in part by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme, an initiative of the European Community created to foster European research and development of new technologies, applications and industries. The SESAME project will run through the end of 2023.

"This project will give us the opportunity to further develop an ecosystem that will reduce the use of plant protection products while ensuring optimal plant protection," said Frédéric Hemmeler, CEO of Aero41. "The fusion of data and the rapid processing of its content should make it possible, by making several robots work in a coordinated way, to obtain much more optimal performances, respectful of the environment and people in the crop protection sector. Aero41 benefits from a proprietary control system that is perfectly open to welcoming new technologies from our partners in this project."

(Press release)

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