5G Seminar smart industry 'Game of Drones'

5G will be an enabler in smart industry appliances. Some examples are real time interconnection between machine, massive monitoring, edge computing. In this Smart Industry theme seminar we will present a use case of autonomous drones in an industrial environment and discuss the challenges and possibilities involved.

Business case of using autonomous drones in warehouses
Speaker: Arno Bruining CEO, Arox Smart Technologies
Arno Bruining will tell us more about the use of autonomous drones in warehouses. The technology of the 5^th generation mobile technology enables drone technology to operate in innovate ways.
Arox, a specialist in warehouse logistics, combines 5G and drone technology to create innovative solutions. We will dive into a current use case to see what they are up to!

Towards 5G-enabled real-time control of indoor collaborative autonomous vehicles
Speaker: prof. dr. ir. B. (Bayu) Jayawardhana
Bayu Jayawardhana will tell us about state-of-the-art on collaborative autonomous vehicles, which includes drones, mobile robots and cars and challenges that are faced when they are deployed in an indoor environment. We revisit the potential deployment of collaborative agents in smart factories, smart warehouse, smart logistics systems, smart greenhouse systems, all of which are of importance to the Dutch industry, and present the on-going activities in the use of 5G technologies for tackling these challenges through the use of edge computing.  

Smart agents
Speaker K. (Kerstin) Bunte, PhD
Astonishing technological advances have been made over the last decade. Drones for large scale agricultural projects that survey the quality of soil providing GPS coordinates coupled with Artificial Intelligence (AI) to aid with detailed fertilization plans. And a small consumer size Quadcopters equipped with a GoPro that can follow a surfer catching a wave, recording a memorable video of the action. With all the advances made … why do we not see autonomous drones everywhere, helping with monitoring in different environments with their eagle eye view? Kerstin Bunte will give an overview of current challenges and novel possibilities in the light of 5G technology.

A. (Arno) Bruining,  CEO Arox Smart Techologies
Arno grew up in a logistics family (with more than 100 years of experience). This gave him an affinity with logistics at a young age. He is very interested is in technology, logistics, innovation and improvements / optimization. During his study Business Administration he started his own company Arox 16 years ago. Arox Smart Technologies supplies logistics software.

prof. dr. ir. B. (Bayu) Jayawardhana
Bayu Jayawardhana is currently a professor of mechatronics and control of nonlinear systems in the Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Groningen, Netherlands, board chairman of Engineering and Technology Institute Groningen and program director of Mechanical Engineering masters programme. His main research interests are on the modeling, analysis and control of nonlinear physical systems with application in high-tech & high-precision mechatronic systems, in renewable energy systems and in multi-robot systems. He received the Faculty Teaching Award in 2017 and the first Ben Feringa Impact Award in 2020. He has published over 50 peer-reviewed top journal articles, over 80 peer-reviewed conference articles and one international patent on offshore energy storage systems.

K. (Kerstin) Bunte, PhD
Kerstin Bunte is an assistant professor at the Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Groningen. She leads two NWO projects granted in 2020, a VIDI project for mechanistic machine learning and the Smart Industry project SMART-AGENTS. Her recent work focused on the development of efficient and transparent machine learning techniques for interdisciplinary data analysis and representation. She received the 4^th and 2^nd place of the TOP4 Best Supervisor Award of the Faculty of Science and Engineering in 2019 and 2020 respectively. She has published 19 top journal articles, over 25 peer-reviewed conference articles and one patent on computer aided diagnosis.

Date: February 18 
Time: 4 pm to 5.15 pm
Location: online. As soon as you have registered you will receive a link from us with which you can attend the seminar.
Registration: please follow this link to the webpagpe of 5Groningen.

5Groningen, program of Economic Board Groningen), is organizing this seminar together with the University of Groningen and Digital Society Hub (Hanze University of Applied Sciences Groningen).