Advantech Contributes to ROS Community to Accelerate AMR Development
8/10/2024
Taipei, Taiwan, October 8, 2024 - Advantech, a global leader in AIoT and Edge Computing has recently become a Supporting Organization of the Open Source Robotic Alliance (OSRA), the governance body of the ROS (Robot Operating System) community. This move underscores Advantech's commitment to delivering cutting-edge solutions for autonomous robots and enhancing the integration and development processes within the robotics sector.
Founded in 1983, Advantech brings 40 years of embedded computing expertise to the table. The company provides comprehensive system integration, hardware and software solutions, along with global logistics support. Their latest innovation is the AFE-R series, which features advanced capabilities as integrated controllers for autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), designed to offer a seamless ROS development environment. This integration aims to streamline AMR development, ensuring smooth hardware-software integration and accelerating the overall development process.
Advantech’s solutions are crafted to meet vision AI, perception, localization, wireless connection, safety and security challenges faced by robot builders. As the industry advances, Advantech remains at the forefront, ready to support the evolving demands of AMR technology with enhanced integration and software development resources.
The AFE-R series comes with various computing platforms and form factors, with built-in IMU, doubled TVS/ESD protection, isolated I/O, and more calibrated features. Advantech’s Robotic Suite provides ROS-ready sensor data, a rosbag database, Modbus and UPC-UA plug-in and conversion, Docker container management, and many more development tools. Advantech also offers ROS Expanded Security Maintenance and support for real-time patches on Ubuntu.
By joining the ROS community, Advantech expects to contribute to improving ROS’s performance, compatibility, scalability, and security on as many computing platforms as possible, empowering more developers to commercialize their innovations in the field.
To find out more, please visit Advantech Autonomous Robot Solutions
About Advantech
Advantech has the corporate vision to "Enable an Intelligent Planet". The company is a global leader in the fields of IoT intelligent systems and embedded platforms. To embrace the trends of IoT, big data, and artificial intelligence, Advantech promotes IoT hardware and software solutions with the industrial IoT platform - WISE-IoT core - to assist business partners and clients in connecting their industrial chains. Advantech is also working with business partners to co-create business ecosystems that accelerate the goal of industrial intelligence. (www.advantech.com)
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