Aaeon, a Taiwanese designer and manufacturer of advanced industrial and embedded computing platforms, is demonstrating a selection of integrated Industry 4.0 solutions, including its latest robotic development kits and AI Edge embedded box PCs, at Robotics and Automation 2022.
Some of the models currently on show at Stand 322 at the Coventry Building Society Arena include the UP Squared V2 educational robotic kit, which is powered by UP Squared V2 – a compact platform based on the latest Intel Pentium and Intel Celeron N and J Series processors.
As visitors are learning, this is integrated with iRobot’s Create 3 educational robot and IntelReal Sense D435i camera, plus a development platform based on ROS2 to provide an enhanced solution for educational robots.
Speaking to Robotics & Innovation, Andy Morgan, senior account manager – UK, said: “The show has been a positive experience so far – this is our first time here.
“We decided to join the show because robotics is a vertical market that we’re focusing on at the moment.
“We develop a broad level of system-level hardware for robotics applications.
“Today has been quite busy and we’re hoping to talk to engineers, system-level integrators and solutions companies to find out what they’re looking for in their applications. Hopefully, we can find the right hardware solutions for all of them.”
Also on display is the RBX-I2000, which Aaeon claims is the first robot controller with integrated time synchronisation capabilities in the hope of expanding the possibility of Industry 4.0 applications.
The controller is powered by the 11th generation Intel Core i7/i5/i3/Celeron Processor SoC, which has four cores and eight threads for accurate algorithmic processing.
The RBX-I2000 on display is also equipped with the power necessary for hardware-based time synchronisation, which is channeled via an I/O featuring four 1PPS and ToD output ports to improve sensor fusion on two connectors.
By moving away from solely software-based time synchronisation, the RBX-I2000’s latency is reduced from the standard 100 to 200 microseconds to approximately 20 nanoseconds, Morgan explained.
Also being displayed are Aaeon’s embedded box PCs, the Boxer-8640AI and Boxer-8641AI models, with NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin, which is intended for more sophisticated AI inferencing for automation applications, such as autonomous manufacturing and smart agriculture.
Moreover, the inclusion of the Nvidia JetPack 5.0 software development kit, which supports the full Nvidia Cuda software stack, is designed to make application development easier and faster.
