ADLINK Teams with Intel to Launch ROScube-I ROS 2 Controller

ADLINK Technology has launched the ROScube-I with Intel, providing a real-time ROS 2 robot controller for advanced robotic applications.

The ADLINK ROScube-I Series is a ROS 2-enabled robotic controller based on Intel Xeon E, 9th Gen Intel Core^TM i7/i3 and 8th Gen Intel Core^TM i5 processors, and features exceptional I/O connectivity supporting a wide variety of sensors and actuators to meet the needs of a wide range of robotic applications.

The ROScube-I supports an extension box for convenient functional and performance expansion with Intel® VPU cards and the Intel Distribution of OpenVINO^TM toolkit for computation of AI algorithms and inference.

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Robotic systems based on the ROScube-I are supported by ADLINK’s Neuron SDK, our proprietary platform specifically designed for professional robotic applications such as autonomous mobile robots (AMR) and With the newly released ROS 2 Foxy Fitzroy (codename “foxy”), Neuron SDK customers can enjoy the benefits of long-term support (LTS), as well as ADLINK’s quality-guaranteed services for ROScube.

The ROScube-I series features:

• High-performance x86-64 mainstream architecture for ROS 2 development
• Comprehensive I/O for connecting a wide range of devices
• Real-time I/O for environmental sensors (CAN, GPIO, COM)
• Real-time middleware for communication between software components and devices
• Hypervisor for safe mission critical mission execution
• Ruggedized, secure connectivity with locking USB ports
• Optional RTOS such as VxWorks

Developers can easily use the ROScube-I Starter Kit or ROScube Pico Development Kit (powered by Intel Core^TM, Celeron and Atom processors) to rapidly prototype algorithms and immediately deploy them to ADLINK’s NeuronBot ROS 2-based rapid robotic development kit for demonstration. This allows for fast improvement of AI models and acquisition of vision data to optimize operational decision-making. The NeuronBot also supports ADLINK’s Neuron SDK to leverage the powerful open source ROS libraries and packages.

The ROScube-I Starter Kit features:

• Embedded board with rich I/O interface
• MXM graphics module support for accelerated AI computing
• Compatibility with ROS/ROS 2
• OpenVINO™ support