The Vision+Robotics programme combines our rich domain knowledge with technology: we bring together a diverse team of more than 40 experts in computer vision, robotics, AI, and spectral imaging from all corners of WUR. This unique synergy creates a powerhouse of tech-savvy researchers, united by a shared commitment to developing high-tech solutions that benefit both the planet and its inhabitants.
As a trusted technology partner in the agri-food sector, it offers advanced capabilities across cloud environments as well as traditional architectures, integrating solutions for virtualisation, containers, and orchestration. This combination ensures enterprise-level scalability, security, and availability, enabling the deployment of innovative applications and access to advanced analytics and machine learning services.
Hispatec facility offers a wide range of technological infrastructure services tailored to the specific needs of each initiative:
Test and validation of autonomous navigation and mapping solutions for UGVs, by quantification of the system performance metrics through comparison with millimeter accuracy ground truth data for an agricultural field with rough terrains.
The facility includes a mechanical workshop, an extensive range of robot platforms and hardware (e.g., sensors) and a 200 m³ motion capture volume. A close collaboration with Università degli Studi di Milano allows AIRLab to test robot systems for agricultural applications in fields, orchards and greenhouses.
The cluster comprises 4 servers with 24 GPUs overall and a NAS. It is installed in a climate-controlled server room; power is distributed via industrial UPS units.
In the mechanisation and automation workshop of the living lab Agrifood Technology of ILVO, technological prototypes for the agrifood sector are ideated, designed, developed, and tested in controlled conditions. An iterative development process is used; this is an agile approach with subsequent multiple cycles of (re)design and testing. Machines are designed in CAD software (Solidworks). For reverse engineering, a 3D scanner and post-processing software are used. For metalworking, lathes, milling machines, bending machines, and welding machines are available.
