Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 30.49
…is a supplier of advanced semiconductor systems, including microcontrollers, analog, power, and system-on-a-chip (SoC) products. The Tokyo-based company said it supports a broad range of automotive, industrial, infrastructure, and Internet of Things (IoT) applications. eProsima specializes in middleware for the robotics, IoT, and automotive sectors. The Madrid-based firm supports implementations for larger robotic systems such as ROS 2 and Micro XRCE-DDS, the default middleware for micro-ROS. Porting ROS to microcontrollers The micro-ROS framework allows a standardized integration of MCUs into the Robot Operating System (ROS) 2 data space. It provides an established application development framework based on standard communication middleware…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 14.88
…MachineMetrics is a software company, it uses an edge device, small computer-based gateway as a vessel for its Edge Software Platform, which collects and analyzes data at the source, explained Bither. “The edge device is installed inside the electrical cabinet of the machine that can be mounted on the din rail, or inside the enclosure,” he said. “Machine data is collected through an Ethernet cable to the machine’s control, or via sensors and relays via an I/O module.” “Many of our customers use MachineMetrics to solely collect and transform data from their assets,” Bither said. “Our data is completely portable…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 23.11
…and edge computing have triggered the proliferation of connected devices, products that perform a rich assortment of functions and sport expanded capabilities. This, in turn, has increased the level of product design complexity engineers must tackle. The complexity becomes particularly evident when selecting processing resources for one of these devices. The problem is that engineers must not only meet a growing variety of seemingly conflicting design demands—like low-power operation and high performance—but they must do so using a bewildering assortment of processing options. Unfortunately, there are few easy answers. For processor architectures and technologies in the era of the IoT,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 28.37
…flawed, unreliable or questionable? Tony Zarola, general manager of Analog Devices, thinks it’s imperative that we build sensors that way. After all, in the coming era of autonomous vehicles, we’ll be relying on them to navigate our cars and our loved ones to safety. He calls the integrity-like characteristic in sensors “sensor robustness.” “We’ve been making sensors for a long time, so we understand how our sensors detect and measure information,” he says. “We design and calibrate [the sensor] so that it can reject data like vibration from a gravel road, for example. That translates to sensor robustness. We understand…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 18.91
…at the edge and the need to bolster the devices’ capabilities have challenged design engineers to develop new systems and rethink the application of more established technologies. Sensors’ Role at the Edge The intertwining of smart sensing, analytics and artificial intelligence in the evolution of edge systems makes sense. Armed with greater intelligence, smart sensors offer significant advantages. By processing data locally, these systems reduce the bandwidth used to interact with the cloud, enhance security, increase safety in time-critical applications, and reduce latency and enable real-time decision-making. “By essentially turning sensors into little computers, they become a great tool for…