Robotics

Robotics are the ultimate expression of industrial automation systems. Industrial control, communications, 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.

Kria™ SOMs are the easiest way to build vision systems and ROS 2-based robotics using robotic-specific apps from the app store or using the Kria Robotics Stack to quickly implement and hardware accelerate your computational graph.

Along with Kria SOMs, Zynq™ UltraScale™+ MPSoCs, Versal™ adaptive SoCs, and FPGAs 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, adaptive SoCs and FPGAs 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

Versal AI Edge series 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 – AMD offer a simplified certification path for both secure and safe systems