Robotics
Modular Platforms for Multi-Axis, Vision-Guided, and Safety-Enabled Intelligent Robotics
Robotics are the ultimate expression of industrial automation systems. Industrial control, communications, machine vision, machine learning, human-machine interfaces, cybersecurity and safety can be key technology considerations when building cobots, industrial robots, or other commercial applications of robotics. Xilinx Adaptive SoCs, FPGAs, and Versal ACAPs enable a modular approach to robotics by providing a common embedded hardware and software platform that can be reused and scaled to dramatically reduce time-to-market, form-factor, total cost of ownership while maximizing intelligence and adaptability of these assets. Specifically, Xilinx Adaptive SoCs, FPGAs, and Versal ACAPs enable:
- Precise, deterministic control over a scalable number of axes of motion via parallel processing of control loops
- Connectivity over diverse Industrial Ethernet standards including support for Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN)
- Support for numerous and diverse sensor inputs, enabling sensor fusion and high-level sensors techniques
- Real-time analytics and machine learning supporting predictive maintenance and control, remote diagnostics, digital twin, and additional edge intelligence use cases
- Integrated human machine interface (HMI)
- Compliance for IEC 61508 SIL 3 functional safety and IEC 62443 cybersecurity
- Smaller physical footprint and power through highest levels of integration
Xilinx Versal AI Edge is a heterogeneous platform that provides a modular, scalable approach to robotics for all the things control, perception, navigation, self-learning, safety, and security.
Benefits of Versal AI Edge & it’s Adaptable Engines in Robotics:
- Perception is what provides information to adapt to the environment - Sensor fusion accelerators in the adaptable engines offload the application processors
- Adaptable engines perform low latency motor control and deterministic networking for synchronization across the system
- Adaptable engines accelerates motion planning which is needed for navigation
- Intelligent engines can perform AI to augment safety controls for dynamic execution, and accelerate real-time analytics with machine learning for predictive maintenance
- Versal has built-in safety and security from bottom up for latest standards – Xilinx offer a simplified certification path for both secure and safe systems
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Fully Integrated Robotics Control
Multi-Axis Motion Control
Multi Axis power stage with minimum drive capabilities and safety
Machine Vision Camera
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