Project partners
To reach the project targets a consortium has been brought together consisting of several scientific and industrial key players in the field optoelectronics, machinery design and green asparagus cultivation. The entire consortium consists of 5 SME’s and 3 RTD subcontractors from in total 6 different European member states.
- STRAUSS
- IMIX
- MAGNI
- WERNER
- UNIHB
- PYFE
- CENTIV
- CWS
1. Strauss Verpackungsmaschinen GmbH

Main tasks in project:
STRAUSS will mainly be involved in the manufacturing of the carrier unit (WP4), the integration of the AmLight prototype (WP6), and the functional and field testing of the prototype (WP6+WP7).
Mr. Jörn Strauß
Email: jstrauss@strauss-pack.com
Website: www.strauss-pack.com
Phone: +49-416174020
Germany
2. IMIX vision Support Systems B.V

Main tasks in project:
Development of the camera assembly and to support BCM in the development of the IPP (both WP2). Other important tasks of IMIX are the calibration of the camera system (WP6), and the optimisation of asparagus detection during field test (WP7).
Mr. Fred Hugen
Email: fred@imix.nl
Website: www.imix.nl
Phone: +31 (055) 5343020
Netherlands
3. Agrar Magnice Sp. Z o.o
Main tasks in project:
MAGNI as one of the end-user will contribute to the specifications from the end-users’ point of view. They will furthermore be responsible to organise field tests with the AmLight prototype in Poland on their fields.
Mr. Zbigniew Wojciechowski
Email: Realzibi@poczta.onet.pl
Website: -
Phone: +48 601516221
Poland
4. Hans-Jürgen Werner
Main tasks in project:
WERNER is growing green asparagus. Since they are located close to STRAUSS all tests with manual harvesting tools in the first project period (WP3) as well as the first set of field trials will be organised by WERNER on his fields.
Mr. Hans-Jürgen Werner
Email: Hans-Juergen@werner-spargel.de
Website: www.werner-spargel.de
Phone: +49 4149 934840
Germany

Main tasks in project:
a) Development of the IPP as described in WP 2
b) Design of the carrier unit as described in WP 4
c) Supervising the operator training in work WP 7
Dr.-Ing. Holger Raffel
Email: raffel@mechatronik-bcm.de
Website: www.mechatronik-bcm.de
Phone: +49-421-218 62690
Germany
6. PYFESA (Projects and Electronic Manufacturing)

Main tasks in project:
a) The development of the overall control system (hardware and software) in WP 4
b) The integration of the control equipment to the prototype and the debugging of the software during functional tests WP6
c) The optimisation of the control program during field tests in WP 7
Mr. Francisco Azpiroz
Email: n.lorenzo@pyfesa.com
Website: www.pyfesa.com
Phone: +34-943458075
Spain
7. CENTIV GmbH

Main tasks in project:
a) The design and development of the harvesting tool (first manual, later automatically) in WP 3
b) To organise and undertake the integration of the prototype together with STRAUSS in WP 6 and to optimise the harvesting tool during functionality testing in the same work package.
c) To support the consortium
Mr. Malte Bethke
Email: mb@centiv.de
Website: www.centiv.de
Phone: +49-4219601390
Fax: +49-4219601399
Germany
8. C. Wright & Son
Main tasks in project:
As all end-users of the consortium CWS will also support the specification of requirements and here especially from the point of a large industrial grower (WP1). Additional CWS is offering the opportunity and is willing to organise field tests at different sites of their organisation (WP7).
Mr. Adam Cunnington
Email: info@c-wright.co.uk
Website: www.c-wright.co.uk
Phone: +441406363222
United Kingdom
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A meeting for evaluation of field tests was held on the 13th of September 2016 in Buxtehude, Germany.
Project INFO
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Project duration: 2 years
Budget: 1.394.892 €
EC contribution: 1.036.000 €