Embedded and edge computing technology provider Congatec has launched new Computer-on-Modules for 5G connected smart factories and industrial automation.
Designed to simplify and accelerate the development of collaborative robotics and material handling systems, the smart mobility platforms are suitable for deployment in outdoor temperatures from -45°C to +85°C.
These platforms will be targeted at uses ranging from next generation of real-time connected, functionally safe self-driving vehicles to smart manufacturing and material handling applications ranging from collaborative and cooperative robots to substitutive solutions such as robots for THT assembly of PCB boards.
OEM vendors of next generation smart logistics vehicles and manufacturing robots must tackle a variety of tasks when designing those new controllers, Congatec added. Operators have to integrate vision and various other sensors for gathering situational raw data, need to implement data pre-processing and AI to improve data analytics, and design controller logic for autonomous vehicle movement and operation.
Additionally, 5G device connectivity for vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-x communication, or respectively, robot-to-robot and robot-to-x-communication are required. And all this needs to be implemented with real-time capabilities and functional safety, said Congatec.
Yoonsun Kim, country manager at Congatec Korea, said: “Congatec positions itself as the embedded computing platform and ecosystem provider that supports smart logistics vehicle and manufacturing robot vendors comprehensively in all these tasks, from TSN capable rugged Computer-on-Modules for the extended temperature ranges and real-time hypervisor technologies to application ready OEM platform building blocks provided by our constantly expanding network of solution partners.”
