Enhance Manufacturing Efficiency with AI-based Transfer Robots
11/18/2024
Background
The modern electronics manufacturing industry faces significant intralogistics challenges, such as high-frequency material replenishment, long-distance material transfers, growing labor safety concerns, and increasingly complex working environments. By implementing an AI-powered Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMR) system, manufacturers can address these issues effectively. These systems offer features like low-failure operation, autonomous navigation, and advanced collision avoidance. This not only enhances safety but also optimizes capacity utilization for material transport between production lines and warehouses. As a result, factories can streamline automation to meet rapidly changing demands while reducing overall production costs.
System Requirements
Delivery robots in industrial manufacturing settings must be designed to operate efficiently in dynamic production environments. This involves overcoming several challenges, including:
- Ensuring stability and flexibility while minimizing vibrations
- Optimizing route planning and improving obstacle avoidance accuracy
- Maintaining a high standard of safety for human-robot interactions
- Fine-tuning cobot design to accommodate specific infrastructure needs
- Autonomously transporting materials over long distances and at high frequencies
- Performing various tasks, such as real-time image processing, analysis, local inference, and material delivery
- Incorporating lightweight, long-lasting battery solutions for 24-hour autonomous cyclic operation and efficient charging
Solutions
Advantech AIR-030, an AI inference system powered by NVIDIA® Jetson AGX Orin™, delivers up to 275 TOPS of multi-task AI capability. It enhances processing across sensing, actuation, decision-making, and system integration, making it an ideal solution for a variety of application requirements.
- Seamless Connectivity: Equipped with vertical I/O ports, the AIR-030 enables easy integration with cameras, sensor fusion systems, 3D LiDAR, motion controllers, and wireless modules, making it perfect for AMR applications.
- Rugged and Reliable Design: With low power consumption and a durable build, the system ensures stable 24/7 operation, withstands up to 3G vibration, and complies with heavy industry standards (IEC 61000-6-2 and IEC 61000-6-4), guaranteeing reliable performance in harsh environments.
- Comprehensive AI and Robotics Support: The Advantech Edge AI SDK and Robotics Suite provide a robust runtime environment that simplifies AI model development and facilitates the integration of ROS applications.
- Streamlined Development: The system includes a pre-loaded Ubuntu image and JetPack SDK, enabling users to leverage the NVIDIA software ecosystem, thereby reducing development time and increasing efficiency.
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