Robotics development platform: Infineon Mobile Robot (IMR)

Acting as the brain, the 5 V input voltage main control board is the central control unit of the robot, handling all necessary CAN communication. This includes communications such as motor speed to the inverters, and lighting effects to the sensor LED boards. In addition, the implemented SBUS interface is designed to be used with FrSky remote controls, enabling truly next level control of the robot. All of these features are made possible by Infineon's XMC 144 MHz microcontroller based on Arm® Cortex®-M4, featuring up to 2 MB Flash, 352 kB of RAM, 100 - 196 pins, 6 x CAN nodes, 4 x 12-bit ADC, 18 input channels, 4 x parallel sampling and conversion, 6 channel USIC (configurable to SPI, UART, IIC, IIS), and much more.

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Meanwhile, the power distribution solution converts and directs power where it needs to go, with extremely low power losses, and current measurement for all six 5 V output side channels. The solution, which operates as an interleaved buck converter with four phases and handles up to 80 V input voltage, also features a power controller for individual sleep modes, high side switches with diagnosis and protection functions, and a high speed CAN transceiver.

Our motor control solution helps to put the 'mobile' in the 'Infineon Mobile Robot' (IMR). The high efficiency and small form factor solution controls the motors that allow the robot to move around and perform the tasks that it needs to perform. Infineon's expertise in this area is best demonstrated by our MOTIX™ IMD701A fully programmable motor controller, which combines our XMC microcontroller and MOTIX™ 6EDL 3-phase gate driver IC, drastically reducing BOM and enabling more compact designs. On top of this, it also offers maximum flexibility to use different MOSFETs in the inverter stage, thus allowing fine tuning of the drives depending on your needs.

Outside of hardware, Infineon also offers you the accompanying software. In the case of IMR, it operates with an SVPWM FOC algorithm at 20 kHz control frequency with three-phase low side current measurement, sensored implementation using POSIF, and cascaded control of torque with the inner loop and speed with the outer loop.

Perhaps the most critical of robotics subsystems, the BMS must be safe and reliable so that the batteries, and in turn the robot, do not experience failure. The BMS solution used in the IMR demonstrates Infineon’s application leadership, leveraging our technology, expertise, and commitment to safety. This solution for 12S battery cells, led by our TLEDQU Li-ion battery monitoring and balancing IC, features advanced cell monitoring and balancing, cutting edge temperature management, the latest safety functionality including SoC and SoH, an extensible and non-blocking software layout, and data communication via CAN. Furthermore, the 44.4 V nominal voltage solution, with a voltage range between 30 V and 50.4 V and a charging and discharging rate of 1 C & 5 C, is delivered in a modular design by combining a power board and a controller board, with the required software, resulting in true flexibility. The IMR uses two modular BMS solutions, supporting hot-swapping of the batteries, meaning that the robot never has to be powered off.

Unlike human eyes, the IMR takes advantage of Infineon's REAL3™ hybrid Time-of-Flight (hToF) high-resolution camera solution, which combines spot and flood illumination for next generation depth sensing and 3D scene understanding. This one small form factor 31 mm x 16 mm x 8 mm camera solution can cover both high accuracy and low compute simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) and high definition advanced obstacle avoidance. When compared to legacy solutions such as LDS for SLAM, which is usually around 120 mm x 85 mm x 60 mm and SL for obstacle avoidance, at around 280 mm x 40 mm x 30 mm, a front mounted hToF camera allows for 30% thinner vacuum cleaning robots, saving valuable space.

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Need more reasons to choose hToF for your next design? For obstacle detection, compared to a simple structured light (SL) solution, hToF offers up to 300,000 depth points of resolution, allowing it to detect smaller objects, a 110° field of view, which means faster navigation with no blind spot, and can even work in the dark using IR data. The solution is also a solid-state camera with no moving parts, meaning no wear and tear.

Similar to how humans can feel what their bare feet are standing on, the IMR can use downward facing radar detection, which classifies floor type using a neural net, to detect the floor type. The IMR uses Infineon's XENSIV™ BGT60TR13C 60 GHz radar sensor, which is part of the Connected Sensor Kit (CSK), KIT_CSK_BGT60TR13C. The neural net also features datasets and models for both indoor and outdoor environments so that you can customize your robot to your exact use case.
This evaluation kit also contains a Rapid IoT connect developer board, which contains the ultra-low-power dual-core 32-bit PSOC™ 6 MCU based on Arm® Cortex®-M4/M0+ and the ultra-low power single-chip AIROC™ CYW Wi-Fi/Bluetooth® connectivity combo, perfect for rapid prototyping. The kit also features micro-USB connection at 5 V input voltage, and a small form factor of 22.5 mm x 63 mm x 30 mm.
However, since the IMR is designed for quick testing and evaluation, one of the most exciting features of the CSK is the wealth of code examples available in ModusToolbox™. These examples, combined with the Rapid IoT connect board and the other plug-and-play systems of the IMR, make development truly fast and efficient.

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product presentation :

The AGV is a transport vehicle equipped with electromagnetic or optical guidance devices, which can travel along the specified guidance path, with safety protection and various load shifting functions.In industrial applications, a carrier truck without a driver is powered by a rechargeable battery.Generally, it can control its route and behavior through a computer, or it can set up its route by using an electromagnetic track, which is glued to the floor, and an unmanned van can move and move according to the information brought by the electromagnetic track.

AGV is characterized by wheeled mobility. Compared with walking, crawling or other non-wheeled mobile robots, AGV has the advantages of fast movement, high working efficiency, simple structure, strong controllability and good safety.Compared with other equipment commonly used in material transportation, the mobile area of AGV does not need to be equipped with fixed devices such as track and support frame, and is not limited by site, road and space.Therefore, in the automated logistics system, can fully reflect its automaticity and flexibility, to achieve efficient, economical, flexible unmanned production.
Product Advantages:
1) High accuracy. Based on vision SLAM technology, advanced underlying algorithm and motion control are applied to achieve positioning accuracy up to ±5mm and navigation accuracy up to ±10mm, which can meet most high-precision operation requirements.
2) Less transformation. There is no need to lay magnetic stripe, reflector plate, or transform the vehicle and shelf on site. The vehicle body is upgraded without humanization by means of external installation. The on-site transformation is less and the project cycle is short.
3) High efficiency. Handling speed up to 2m/s, fast in and out of storage, fast turning connection;
4) Low cost. Support old forklift unmanned upgrade and transformation, realize free asset utilization, and meet 7X24 hours of uninterrupted work, reduce operating costs;
5) Be flexible. Mature visual positioning, control and perception technologies can be adaptive to complex scenes of man-machine collaboration with various functions, docking various automatic equipment (such as automatic baling machine, automatic palletizing machine, automatic elevator, etc.), easily docking with the current WMS/ERP system;
6) Safer. Strictly follow the international safety design standards, dual system control, five safety protection.
Recommended industries: E-commerce logistics, third-party logistics, bonded warehouse, retail, FMCG, 3C manufacturing, food, pharmaceutical, automobile manufacturing, new energy
Main functions: multi-machine scheduling, equipment docking, plane handling, material detection, vehicle detection, shelf detection, safety obstacle avoidance, automatic charging
Application: Flat handling of goods between warehouses and production lines in logistics and manufacturing industries.
Features:
THE AGV is an autonomous vehicle equipped with a non-contact guiding device and powered by its own dexterity. The bi-directional latent AGV lurks to the bottom of the trolley and USES its own traction mechanism to realize the automatic suspension or unsuspension of the skip vehicle. This model has compact structure and flexible walking.

product overview:
Main functions: traction AGV, single forward, in a straight road can realize the back function, automatic hook.
Main Features: Single drive/two way (backward only on linear road)
Application Industry and Scenario:
Electronics industry: vehicle and fixture handling
Home appliance industry: material rack traction, jig handling
Automobile industry: material rack traction, tools, material handling
Our after-sales Service: 

1.Highly inspecting equipments in every working procedure, quality comes first;
2.Fast & Safe Delivery; 
3.Assisting our clients for foundation construction of equipments;
4.Dispatching engineers to install and debug equipments;
5.Training the first-line operators on site;
6. Regularly visit clients to solve production problems Providing life-long maintenance service 
7.Providing technical exchanging.
FAQ
1:Q: what is the MOQ for your machines?
   A:Our MOQ  is 1 set.
2:Q:How should to do if  I meet some trouble while using?
   A:The English manual book and video will be provide for showing how to resolve the problems, if necessary, we will dispatch our engineer to your factory.
3:Q:Do you provide the installation service after ordering your machines?
  A:As for the single machine, we provide the users instruction and operation video.
  As for the production line,we provide the professional construction drawing, and arrange the engineer guide the user install the machines.Help the user train the skilled workers.
4:Q:Can we visit your factory for machine testing operations?
   A:We warmly welcome the clients to visiting our factory for trying machine.
Features:

(1) abundant models for customers to choose.

(2) realize intelligent transport and operation in different scenarios and environments.

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