MEC, GROUND sign research agreement

Hyderabad: Mahindra Ecole Centrale, Hyderabad announced the signing of a Joint Research agreement with GROUND Inc., the Japanese leader in the field of LogiTech®.

The research will focus on the application of AI Semiconductor Field Programmable Gate Arrays in the field of Logistics. FPGAs are an integrated circuit whose circuits can be re-written after manufacturing.

FPGAs have attracted attention in recent years as AI semiconductor solutions. MEC and GROUND will undertake research with the aim of accelerating the development of the Dynamic Allocation System®" (DyAS®), the AI logistics software that GROUND is currently developing in-house.

With electronic commerce(eCom) developing into social infrastructure that supports people's lives due to the widespread adoption of Internet-based purchases, flea market apps and so on, the volume of transactions has increased, while the diversification of consumer purchasing experiences has also accelerated due to the concurrence of brick-and-mortar and eCom stores.

As a result, the role of logistics in supporting eCom behind the scenes to ensure that products are delivered accurately and without delay has also been forced to change. This has created a growing need to optimize distribution warehouses to handle small-lot, high-frequency deliveries and immediate deliveries, and to optimize complex combinations of various factors involved with purchasing scenarios and distribution sites in ways that are tailored to consumer needs.

As a solution to help solve these challenges, GROUND is pursuing the development of the DyAS®, AI logistics software, which is designed to optimize and adjust inventory arrangement and resources (people, robots, etc.) within a warehouse. GROUND is now focusing on FPGAs as the semiconductor solutions to perform high-speed processing of the AI deep learning that is at the core of DyAS®. Mahindra Ecole Centrale will promote the applications for basic research for DyAS®.