Advantech is happy to announce its collaboration with ADATA Technology to successfully develop an autonomous mobile robot (AMR) system. Using the NVIDIA Nova Orin reference platform, the AMR system integrates both Advantech and ADATA’s solutions, allowing developers to manage the upper-level AI system and lower-level wheelbase system seamlessly.
The integration subsequently shortens AMR development and deployment time by 70%, according to Advantech, as demonstrated by the smart disinfection AMR system deployed at the National Taiwan University Hospital Hsin-Chu Branch.
ADATA has collaborated with the National Taiwan University Hospital Hsin-Chu Branch to develop a disinfection AMR using ROS2. This robot, equipped with AI technology, can automatically recognise objects and surroundings to choose the most effective disinfection method. In addition to reducing the hospital’s cleaning workload— which cuts back on an average of 4-6 cleaning staff per night—it significantly improves the efficiency and quality of environmental disinfection.
The disinfection AMR system showcases ADATA’s expertise in AMR vehicle development and advanced software capabilities. By integrating automated control, cameras, sensors, and vehicle design with AI software, it achieves simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM), enabling the AMR to navigate smoothly across varied environments.
ADATA Technology’s AMR system features two primary components: an upper-level system that utilises Advantech’s MIC-710AIX for real-time AI object recognition and disinfection algorithms, which send commands to the lower-level ROS-based system to execute tasks, ensuring optimised and standard-compliant disinfection. To further accelerate deployment, ADATA’s next-generation AMR vehicle system integrates Advantech’s MIC-732-AO, powered by the highly integrative NVIDIA Nova Orin, enabling rapid integration of cameras and sensors.
ADATA and Advantech have also successfully integrated NVIDIA Isaac Perceptor, providing comprehensive perception, localisation, and navigation functions and significantly reducing AMR deployment time.
Advantech and ADATA plan to continue their collaboration to develop the ideal AMR system, with the next step involving the integration of NVIDIA Omniverse, a platform of APIs, software development kits to create digital twins of AMR mapping and positioning.
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