Inuitive, a Vision-on-Chip (VoC) processor company, has announced the launch of its newest sensor modules: the M4.5S and the M4.3WN.
The modules were designed to easily integrate into robots and drones systems, with both being built around the NU4000 VoC processor and integrating depth sensing and image processing with artificial intelligence (AI) and visual simultaneous localisation and mapping (VSLAM) capabilities.
Inuitive has said this is to provide the devices with a ‘human-like visual understanding’ and that these VSLAM capabilities for tracking and navigation are especially suited to autonomous mobile robot (AMR) and automated guided vehicle (AGV) systems.
The VoC company added that the M4.5S provides robots with enhanced depth from stereo sensing, along with AI-based obstacle detection and object recognition. Moreover, Inuitive reports that it features the widest field of view in the industry at 88×58 degrees, the shortest minimum-sensing-range at 9cm, and a wide operating temperature range of up to 50 degrees Celsius.
The M4.5S was developed to be an easy to adopt, highly power efficient platform that can function as a self-sufficient depth sensor module that can support faster commercialisation for robotic systems.
According to Intuitive, the M4.3WN features tracking and VLSAM navigation based on fisheye cameras and an IMU, which come together with depth sensing and on-chip AI processing.
This, it claims, enables free navigation, localisation, path planning and static and dynamic obstacle avoidance – which are some of the main challenges for AMR and AGV systems. The M4.3WN is specially designed in a metal case to support consistent performance in industrial environment conditions.
“Our new all-in-one sensor modules expand our portfolio targeting the growing market of autonomous mobile robots,” said Shlomo Gadot, CEO and co-founder of Inuitive.
“Together with our category-leading Vision-on-Chip processor, we now enable robotic devices to look at the world with human-like visual understanding.
“Inuitive is fully committed to continuously developing the best performing products for our customers and becoming their supplier of choice.
The M4.5S and the M4.3WN sensor modules’ primary processing unit is the Inuitive all-in-one NU4000 processor, with both modules reportedly being equipped with depth and RGB sensors that are controlled and timed by the NU4000.
What’s more, Inuitive claims that data generated by the sensors is processed in real-time at a high frame rate by the NU4000, which is then used to generate depth information for the host device.
The Inuitive M4.5S and M4.3WN module sensors are now available to purchase.
