Reconfigurable

This facility provides the hardware for the AgrospAI Data Space, which is federated with the agrifoodTEF Data Space and offers, among other things, compute-to-data capabilities and multiple data room configurations for running data processing services, including AI and particularly Deep Learning. The data space is backed by a cluster that, combined, provides 280 CPU cores, 1.7 TB of CPU memory, 6 GPUs providing a total of 288 GB of GPU memory, and 28 TB of high-speed storage.

The main office is located in Lelystad, a region of predominantly arable farming on clay soil. The Lelystad office has a farm with more than 800 hectares of farmland. Besides the location in Lelystad, we also have farms in Randwijk (fruit orchard), Valthermond, Vredepeel and Westmaas, covering all arable farming regions and soil types in the Netherlands. 

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.

ILVO's Spray Tech Lab is one of the few accredited spray technology laboratories in the world specialising in the characterisation of sprayers and nozzles. In addition to accredited testing, the laboratory has the experimental facilities to develop spray application systems and evaluate them under field or laboratory conditions. Current research priorities include greenhouse and open field spray applications, spray drift, nozzle characterisation, orchard spray applications, and biological crop protection applications.

The ILVO Hyperspectral Technology Facility enables advanced applications in agri-food processing, such as quality control, defect detection, grading, and sorting of (raw) products. By comparing spectral and spatial data to reference measurements, we build chemometric models capable of estimating product parameters in real time. The facility hosts a range of hyperspectral and multispectral devices, including spectrometers with customisable probes, hyperspectral cameras, and FTNIRS systems suited for both solid and liquid samples.

ILVO’s fertiliser spreader calibration lab offers services to farmers, fertiliser spreader manufacturers, and fertiliser-producing companies. Two different approaches are used for assessing the performance of centrifugal and pendulum fertiliser spreaders for specific types of fertilisers: collection trays equipped with anti-reflection grids are used for determining spread patterns in field conditions.