Nano-Agro: a novel, multi-purpose RAI system for sports turf

农业和工业受到不可预见事件的严重影响和/或永久中断，例如新冠肺炎爆发造成的危机，以及将对移民劳动力供应产生更长期影响的英国退欧等政府政策。例如，据估计，到2020年，英国脱欧和COVID19的结合将使英国仅草莓的生产成本就增加1500万GB。与此同时，工业机器人或工业4.0正在崛起，新的电信网络，如LoRaWAN Sigfox和目前的5G正在这一关键背景下在英国部署。物联网、自动化和大数据在农业和工业流程中的大量采用，可以通过提高生产率、解决劳动力短缺和随时随地控制生产线来帮助这些行业恢复、增长和创造新的机会。E-Nano开发了一种名为O.S.C.A.R.(优化的智能5G控制的AI Robot)的界面，一种新型的支持Wifi/4G/5G的机器人平台，使机器人能够以集群方式协作工作，并允许分析从嵌入机器人和现场的广泛传感器收集的数据。E-Nano现在提议通过将O.S.C.A.R集成到名为Nano-ago的模块化多用途机器人解决方案中来开发机器人和人工智能系统。拟议的系统旨在田间自主运行，以自动化预定义的任务-减少用户的工作量-同时评估土壤-支持精准农业和更高的产量。E-Nano将在该项目期间开发和实施各种特定的附加组件、传感器和数据分析工具。

Agriculture and industries are severely impacted and/or permanently disrupted by unforeseen events, such as the crisis caused by Covid-19 outbreak, and by Government policies like Brexit that will have a longer lasting impact on migrant labour availability. As an example, it is estimated that the combination of Brexit & COVID19 will increase the cost of production of Strawberries alone by £15 million in the UK in 2020\.Simultaneously, industrial robotics or Industry 4.0 is on the rise and new telecommunication networks like LoraWan Sigfox and currently 5G are being deployed in the UK in this crucial context. The large adoption of IoT, automation and big data into agriculture and industry processes could help these sectors to recover, grow and create new opportunities by increasing productivity, tackling labour shortages and enabling control of the production lines at any time and from anywhere.E-Nano has developed an interface called O.S.C.A.R. (Optimized Smart 5G-Controlled AI Robot), a novel Wifi/4G/5G-enabled robot platform that enables robots to work in collaboration in a swarm fashion and allows analysis of the collected data from a broad spectrum of sensors embedded in the robot and in the field.E-Nano is now proposing to develop a Robotics and Artificial Intelligence system by integrating O.S.C.A.R. into a modular and multi-purpose robotic solution called Nano-Agro which will be developed within this project. The proposed system aims to operate autonomously in the field to automate predefined tasks - decreasing users' workload - while assessing the soil - supporting precision agriculture and better yield. Various specific add-ons, sensors and data analytics tools will be developed and implemented by E-Nano during this project.