Humanoid robot

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Design safer, smarter and more compact humanoid robots with our system-level solutions. By leveraging our advanced gallium nitride (GaN), gate driver and precision sensing devices in your robot designs, you can drive progress across industries to increase productivity, enhance safety, and improve daily living, all while meeting your cost and performance requirements.

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Navigation and sensing

Navigation and sensing in humanoid robots involves real-time data acquisition gathered from many sensors to perceive elements of the environment. Humanoid robots use algorithms to process sensor input for obstacle detection, path planning and precise movement for autonomous navigation of complex environments.

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Position sensor

Position sensing in humanoid robots requires high-performance optical, magnetic and inductive sensing. These designs require small-footprint, low-power semiconductor solutions for compact encoders that can operate over an extended industrial temperature range, with electromagnetic compatibility immunity interfaces for reliable position sensing.

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Battery management system

Our integrated circuits and reference designs help you create humanoid robot battery management system (BMS) designs for battery pack monitoring, protecting, cell balancing and gauging.

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System controller

The system controller in a humanoid robot acts as its brain, processing sensor data to perceive its environment, make decisions, and control movements. It manages tasks such as walking, object manipulation and interaction with humans.

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Single- and multi-axis servo drives

Our integrated circuits and reference designs help you create a compact, efficient and fully protected power-stage module for humanoid robots. Our analog and embedded processors enable improved motor-control performance and exceed IEC isolation and electromagnetic compatibility requirements.

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Navigation and sensing
Position sensor
Battery management system
System controller
Single- and multi-axis servo drives

Why choose TI for humanoid robot systems?

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Build smart, safe and compact robot motor drives

TI GaN devices and gate drivers enable you to build small, efficient and safe servo drives. High-precision current sensing and encoder enables more precise motor control. 

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Develop intelligent sensing, perception and navigation

Our processor families offer high-performance edge AI computing for perception, sensor fusion and navigation. Our TI millimeter wave radar portfolio enables high-accuracy sensing for humanoid robots.

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Meet functional safety requirements

Achieve safety standards such as IEC 61508, ISO 13849 and ISO 26262 at lower system-level costs by using the on-chip safety capabilities of our analog and embedded integrated circuits.

Engineering safer, smarter humanoid robots

Create compact, efficient and fully protected servo drive power-stage modules

Humanoid robots rely on numerous motors, each requiring high power density and precise control in a compact space. GaN technology reduces the size of the power stage by more than 50% compared to metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor alternatives, thanks to integrated drivers. With its ultra-low switching losses, GaN enables high-frequency pulse-width-modulation control in the hundreds of kilohertz range. Its ability to maintain efficiency without excessive heat helps address the complex, high-performance demands of humanoid robot systems.

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White paper
Optimizing GaN performance with an integrated driver
At high slew rates, certain package types can limit GaN field effect transistor (FET) switching performance. Integrating the GaN FET and driver in the same package reduces parasitic inductances and optimizes switching performance. 
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3-Phase GaN inverter for robot and servo drives
This reference design is a 48V, 15A, GaN-based three-phase inverter tested under 80kHz PWM. With GaN as the semiconductor material, more and more robot and servo manufacturers are exploring the use of GaN in motor drives. 
White paper
How Three-Phase Integrated GaN Technology Maximizes Motor-Drive Performance
Advancements in GaN-based IPMs such as the DRV7308 will continue to help increase power density, power delivery and efficiency in motor drives for appliances and HVAC systems, while saving system costs and increasing reliability.
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Featured products for power stages
NEW LMG2100R026 ACTIVE 100V 2.6mΩ half-bridge gallium nitride (GaN) power stage
NEW LMG3100R017 PREVIEW 100V 1.7mΩ GaN FET with integrated driver
NEW DRV8162 PREVIEW 105V max single half-bridge smart gate driver with STO functionality

Quickly achieve smooth, accurate motion

Humanoid robots require constant real-time measurement of motor currents, voltages and position to achieve accurate movement and speed. Our C2000™ microcontrollers and Sitara™ processors provide high-performance, real-time control to ensure that your robot operates with precision, stability and safety. Designed to minimize communication and processing delays, these processors deliver best-in-class motion control, cycle time and path accuracy, meeting the growing performance demands of modern humanoid robot systems.

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Decentralized Multiaxis Motor Control
Move your real-time control closer to the action with our decentralized multiaxis servo drive architecture.
Technical article
What is “real-time control” and why do you need it?
Real-time control is the ability of a closed-loop system to gather data, process data, and update the system within a defined time window. If the system misses that defined window, stability, precision and efficiency will degrade.
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Technical article
How to achieve precise motion control in industrial drives
Many aspects of an industrial drive are important for precise motion control, encompassing all three foundational subsystems of real-time control designs, from sensing to processing to actuation.
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Featured products for motor control
AM2634 ACTIVE Quad-core Arm® Cortex®-R5F MCU up to 400 MHz with real-time control and security
TMS320F28P650DK ACTIVE C2000™ 32-bit MCU, 2x C28x+CLA CPU, Lock Step, 1.28-MB flash, 16-b ADC, HRPWM, EtherCAT, CAN-FD, AES

Gain precise, safe motion with timely communication

To enable precise and safe motion in humanoid robots, real-time communication interfaces such as standard or Single-Pair Ethernet (SPE) are essential for timely data exchange between systems. Our latest physical layer (PHY), combined with our high-performance real-time MCUs, support various industrial communication protocols up to gigabit speeds, while helping reducing cable weight, complexity, and points of failure in advanced robot designs.

Application note
How and Why to Use Single Twisted-Pair Ethernet (SPE) for Industrial Robotics Environments (Rev. A)
This article discusses the benefits of SPE (Base-T1) for robotics applications, as well as the primary challenges when designing with compact, efficient, reliable and low-noise communication interfaces for robotic systems.
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Application note
EMC/EMI Compliant Design for Single Pair Ethernet
This application note provides guidance for schematic and layout practices to help pass electromagnetic interference and electromagnetic compatibility tests, focusing on power-supply and clocking schemes.
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Featured products for communications
DP83TC812S-Q1 ACTIVE TC-10 compliant 100BASE-T1 automotive Ethernet PHY with RGMII & SGMII
DP83826E ACTIVE Low latency 10/100-Mbps PHY with MII interface and enhanced mode
TCAN1042-Q1 ACTIVE Automotive fault-protected CAN transceiver with flexible data-rate

Increase your robot’s performance and speed, without compromising response time to a safety threat

Enable close humanoid robot collaboration with our portfolio of high-accuracy mmWave sensors. Our mmWave radar sensors enable precise data collection through a 360-degree view, which can help you achieve the highest level of precision in your designs. Our radar technology is also precertified to Safety Integrity Level 2 from Technischer Überwachungsverein (TÜV SÜD) to facilitate the safety design cycle, and is capable of fulfilling the requirements of the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) 61496-5 standard for radar-protective devices.

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Webinar: Sensing in Robotics
Learn how various sensors such as mmWave, ultrasonic and optical sensors enable collaborative robots to cooperate, co-exist and co-work with humans, and how sensors enable autonomous guided vehicles to detect and avoid objects.
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TI mmWave experts discuss functional safety
This video talks about the features and resources provided with TI’s radar sensors to make functional safety development easy for your end application.
Reference design
Nanosecond Laser Driver Reference Design for Lidar
Our light detection and ranging (lidar) reference design showcases the LMG1020 and LMG1025-Q1 low-side gate drivers for narrow pulse applications.
Featured products for safe sensor technology
IWR6843 ACTIVE Single-chip 60-GHz to 64-GHz intelligent mmWave sensor integrating processing capability
TDA4VM ACTIVE Dual Arm® Cortex®-A72 SoC and C7x DSP with deep-learning, vision and multimedia accelerators
LMG1020 ACTIVE 7-A/5-A single channel gate driver with 5-V UVLO for nano second input pulses

Streamline your functional safety system certification

Meet the rigorous requirements of functional safety standards such as IEC 61508 with our TI Functional Safety-Compliant sensors and processors. We offer functional safety-certified engineers; available documentation and resources such as functional safety failure-in-time rate and failure modes, effects and diagnostic analysis; and safety certificates and software diagnostics libraries to help ease the certification process.

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White paper
Optimizing functional safety for industrial robots
This white paper describes functional safety for processors in industrial robots, and explores some options to enable functional safety.
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Functional safety information
Design Smaller Safe Torque Off (STO) Systems Using 3-Phase Smart Gate Drivers
Learn about our three-phase smart gate drivers, released as TI Functional Safety Quality-Managed devices, for your next safe torque-off system design.
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Video series
Functional Safety at TI
Meet the rigorous requirements of functional safety standards such as ISO 13849 and IEC 61508 with our analog and embedded processing products. Streamline your functional safety system certification with help from our experts.
Application brief
Design Smaller STO Systems Using Integrated Three-Phase Smart Gate Drivers
This article discusses the requirements of safe torque-off (STO), the market trend, existing solutions, and the approach of the small STO design using DRV8350F and DRV8353F.
Reference design
48V, 4kW small form-factor three-phase inverter reference design for integrated motor drives

This reference design demonstrates a three-phase inverter with nominal 48V DC input and 85Arms output current rating. The 100V intelligent half-bridge gate driver DRV8162L enables a small size, robust and high efficiency power stage. Multichannel shutdown paths using the split power supply (...)
Reference design
48V/16A small form factor three-phase GaN inverter reference design for integrated motor drives

This reference design demonstrates a high-power density 12V to 60V 3-phase power stage using three LMG2100R044 100V, 35A GaN half-bridges with integrated GaN FETs, driver and bootstrap diode specifically for motor-integrated servo drives and robotics applications.  
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Technical resources

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E-book: An engineer’s guide to industrial robot designs
Analog and embedded technologies and reference designs from TI enable engineers to develop intelligent, autonomous and collaborative robots. This e-book is intended to be a one-stop shop for robotics-related content.
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Application note
Application note
How and Why to Use Single Twisted-Pair Ethernet (SPE) for Industrial Robotics Environments (Rev. A)
How and Why to Use Single Twisted-Pair Ethernet for Industrial Robotics Environments
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Robotics software development kit
The robotics software development kit provides a software development environment for our Jacinto™ processors, with software building blocks and example demos that you can leverage for robotics software development.