Advantech and ADATA build AMR system to cut deployment time
Advantech and ADATA have joined forces in developing an autonomous mobile robot (AMR) system that leverages the NVIDIA Nova Orin reference platform.
Combining the strengths of Advantech and ADATA, the AMR system allows developers to manage the upper-level AI system and lower-level wheelbase system seamlessly, reducing the need for separate management.
This integration shortens development and deployment time by 70%, as demonstrated by the smart disinfection AMR system deployed at the National Taiwan University Hospital Hsin-Chu Branch. Through this partnership, Advantech and ADATA aim to accelerate market growth with a fast-to-deploy AMR offering.
ADATA Technology has collaborated with the National Taiwan University Hospital Hsin-Chu Branch to develop a disinfection autonomous mobile robot using ROS2. This robot, equipped with AI technology, can automatically recognize objects and surroundings to choose the most effective disinfection method. In addition to reducing the hospital’s cleaning workload — sparing an average of 4 to 6 cleaning staff per night — it significantly improves the efficiency and quality of environmental disinfection. This disinfection robot showcases ADATA’s expertise in AMR vehicle development and advanced software capabilities. By integrating automated control, cameras, sensors, and vehicle design with AI software, it achieves simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), enabling the robot to navigate smoothly across varied environments.
The ADATA AMR system features two primary components — an upper-level system that utilizes Advantech’s MIC-710AIX for real-time AI object recognition and disinfection algorithms, which send commands to the lower-level ROS-based system to execute tasks, ensuring optimized and standard-compliant disinfection. To further accelerate deployment, ADATA’s next-generation AMR vehicle system integrates Advantech’s MIC-732-AO, powered by the highly integrative NVIDIA Nova Orin, enabling rapid integration of cameras and sensors. ADATA and Advantech have also successfully integrated NVIDIA Isaac Perceptor, providing comprehensive perception, localization, and navigation functions while significantly reducing deployment time.
Advantech and ADATA are continuing their collaboration to develop the ideal AMR system, with their next step involving the integration of NVIDIA Omniverse, a platform of application programming interfaces (APIs), software development kits to create digital twins of AMR mapping and positioning, optimizing the development process within a virtual environment.
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