Arrow, ADI team for Robotics Centre of Excellence
Distributor Arrow Electronics and its eInfochips engineering services subsidiary have established a Robotics Centre of Excellence (COE) to develop reference designs for automation technologies for manufacturing, digital factories, and other industries.
Arrow is working with Analog Devices (ADI), Nvidia and onsemi image sensors to develop reference designs and proof of concepts that robotics customers can use to improve product design.
The first reference design for VSLAM and Sensor Fusion algorithms in an automated mobile robot uses ADI’s CMOS time of flight sensor (TOS) and IMU was developed at the Catalyst centre in Ireland and is being demonstrated at Sensors Converge in San Jose, California this week.
Arrow is providing engineers, hardware, software, and simulators. Platforms from Nvidia include Jetson developer kits and modules, Isaac Sim, Omniverse, Metropolis, TAO Toolkit, TensorRT, and Triton Inference Server. Arrow will also use open-source tools like ROS and Gazebo. The Robotics COE aims to help innovators with solutions and reference designs that will address the common robotics tasks of perception, navigation, and planning.
The opening of the Robotics COE comes at a time when the use of robotics is soon to be ubiquitous. According to the International Federation of Robotics, robots and cobots (collaborative robots) in industrial manufacturing have doubled in the last five years. There is an increasing need for robots to operate safely, accurately, and efficiently in a variety of environments while helping ensure the ability to identify and interact with objects in their surroundings. These requirements make developing robotic solutions a challenge.
“The rapid adoption of artificial intelligence at the edge as well as applications such as autonomous machines will revolutionize the digital factory to enable the deployment and growth of Industry 4.0,” said Aiden Mitchell, senior vice president of global marketing and engineering at Arrow Electronics. “Arrow Electronics is proud to work together with ADI to create a centre of excellence to empower the Intelligent Edge through design services capabilities, reduce technology complexities, and accelerate time to market.”
“ADI and Arrow Electronics are working together to develop advanced automation solutions such as industrial robotics for the broad market customer base,” said Leo McHugh, vice president of industrial automation at ADI. “Integrating the latest modular solutions from ADI with state-of-the-art AI modules, complex algorithms, and simulation tools from NVIDIA will allow our customers to focus on their specific applications and bring solutions to market faster.”
The ADI reference design is here.
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