MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY
UM – Netherlands
UM is the youngest University in the Netherlands. It is rapidly expanding and has developed a strong international presence, while it is placed on the tenth place in the 2019 Times Higher Education (THE) 200 Under 50 ranking for best young universities in the world. UM is renowned for its unique, innovative, problem-based learning system, which is characterized by a small-scale, research and student-oriented approach. The UM is exceptionally well equipped to carry out EU projects. Approximately 25% of the University’s income is generated by externally funded research projects (all faculties combined). In FP7 UM was involved in over 150 projects. In Horizon 2020 the total amount of projects that the UM is involved in (from 2014 till August 2019), is about 160 with approximately 75 mln euro of funding volume.
Role in the project
UM supports the CoRoSect project as project coordinator and manager. UM designs, builds and explores the end-effector tools for the robot cell for insect handling, develops the closed-loop control software for insect handling (robot arm motion and end-effector control). Therefore UM provides research on and explores model-based control and reinforcement learning techniques. Finally, UM supports the integration of the control of the robot cell for insect handling into the CoRoSect ecosystem and CoRoSect pilot studies.
Contact person
Rico Möckel
Associate Professor Robotics and Intelligent Systems
rico.mockel@maastrichtuniversity.nl
CoRoSect consortium is a diverse and dynamic network of partners, representing key players in insect farming, pure robotic science and engineering, sustainability-driven innovation practices as well as collaborative business models.
About CoRoSect
CoRoSect is developing a novel Cognitive Robotic System for Digitalized and Networked (Automated) Insect Farms. We bring leading-edge robotics, AI, and some of the best experts in our industry - to help embrace automation and wave goodbye to the monotonous and mundane tasks.
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Project Coordination
Dr. Rico Möckel
Maastricht University
Department of Data Science and Knowledge Engineering (DKE)
Paul Henri Spaaklaan 1
6229EN Maastricht
The Netherlands
Tel.: +31433883482
rico.mockel@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Project Communication
Prof. Dr. Mladen Radišić
CEO Foodscale Hub
Narodnog fronta 73
21000 Novi Sad
Serbia
Tel.: (+381) 21 300 8023
mladen@foodscalehub.com
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 101016953.
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