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Multi-sensor, smarter and safer autonomous mobile robots with real-time control
The next generation of industrial mobile robots are required to become more intelligent and autonomous, while allowing for safe interaction and collaboration with humans. From accurate sensing to high-speed perception and real-time control, our technologies can help you create the most sophisticated mobile robots for ever-evolving industrial needs, while reducing design efforts by using multiple built-in safety functionalities and system-level safety concepts.

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Safety module

The mobile robot safety module ensures safe interaction between humans and robots. This includes monitoring, detecting faults and initiating appropriate actions to ensure the mobile robot operates safely.

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Motor control

This motor control drive is connected to the robot battery and will include current, voltage sensing and an encoder interface. As the drive is battery operated, high efficiency is required including the potential feature of integrated functional safety.

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Sensor module

The mobile robot sensor module enhances navigation and perception, incorporating a range of sensors for real-time data collection. It enables the robot to intelligently interact with its environment, avoiding obstacles, and ensuring precise and adaptive movements in various scenarios.

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CPU & compute module

The mobile robot compute module performs the decision-making of the mobile robot. With advanced processing capabilities, it enables real-time data analysis, enhancing the robot's ability to navigate, perceive its surroundings and execute tasks efficiently.

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Why choose TI for your industrial mobile robot (AGV/AMR) design?

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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 on-chip safety capabilities of our latest analog and embedded ICs.

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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 broad TI mmWave radar portfolio enables high-accuracy sensing for mobile robots.

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Build smart, safe and compact robot motor drives

Our gate drivers enable you to build small, efficient and safe motors while our adjustable slew rates, integrated power supply and protection support a variety of safety functions.

Engineering smarter, safer automated guided vehicles and autonomous mobile robots

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

Our broad portfolio of high accuracy mmWave sensors can help you achieve the highest level of precision in your design. Our mmWave radar sensors enable precise data collection through a 360-degree view. Our radar technology is also pre-certified SIL 2 from TÜV SÜD to facilitate the safety design cycle and is capable of fulfilling the requirements of the 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 cobots to co-operate, co-exist and co-work with humans as well as how sensors enable autonomous guided veichles (AGV) to detect and avoid objects.
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TI mmWave experts dicuss functional safety
This video talks about the key features and resources provided with TI’s radar sensors to make functional safety development easy for your end application.
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Nanosecond laser driver reference design for LiDAR
Our light distancing and ranging (LiDAR) reference design showcases the LMG1020 and LMG1025-Q1 low side gate drivers for narrow pulse applications.
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IWR6843 ACTIVE Single-chip 60-GHz to 64-GHz intelligent mmWave sensor integrating processing capability
LMG1020 ACTIVE 7-A/5-A single channel gate driver with 5-V UVLO for nano second input pulses
TDA4VM ACTIVE Dual Arm® Cortex®-A72 SoC and C7x DSP with deep-learning, vision and multimedia accelerators

Increase system performance with our latest in-phase current sensors with the highest accuracy

Our DRV835xF 102-V, 3-phase Functional Safety Quality-Managed smart gate driver reduces BOM with a small form factor due to integrated short-circuit protection and configurable gate drive strength. Reduce certification efforts by using our TUEV assessed report and safety documentation for DRV835xF Safe Torque Off. 

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48V/10A High Frequency PWM 3-Phase GaN Inverter Reference Design for High-Speed Drives
This reference design includes a 3-phase inverter with three 80V/10A half-bridge GaN power modules LMG5200 and uses shunt based phase current sensing.
Functional safety information
Design Smaller Safe Torque Off (STO) Systems Using 3-Phase Smart Gate Drivers
Learn about our 3-phase smart gate drivers, released as Functional Safety Quality-Managed devices for your next Safe-Torque-Off (STO) system design.
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INA241A ACTIVE -5-V to 110-V bidirectional ultraprecise current sense amplifier with enhanced PWM rejection
DRV8350F ACTIVE 102-V max 3-phase Functional Safety Quality-Managed smart gate driver
TMS320F280039C ACTIVE C2000™ 32-bit MCU 120-MHz 384-KB flash, FPU, TMU with CLA, CLB, AES and CAN-FD

Pack more performance and power into every mobile robot

Control the position, torque and speed of the synchronized axis within your robot and servo drive control module systems in harsh industrial environments with real-time communication. As the leader in real-time control performance, our scalable, ultra-low latency, real-time microcontrollers are designed for efficiency in power electronics. 

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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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White paper
Revolutionizing Real-Time Control, Networking and Analytics w/ Sitara™ AM2x MCUs
This paper explores how Sitara™ AM2x microcontrollers (MCUs) from Texas Instruments (TI) solve the performance challenges of traditional MCUs to meet demands in real-time control, networking and analytics.
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Industrial Functional Safety for C2000™ Real-Time Microcontrollers (Rev. E)
Learn about the device architecture, documentation and software library for our Functional Safety-Compliant C2000 real-time microcontrollers. 
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Streamline your functional safety system certification

Meet the rigorous requirements of functional safety standards, such as IEC 61508, with our Functional Safety-Complaint sensors and processors for simple, safe and affordable solutions. We offer functional safety-certified engineers, available documentation and resources, such as functional safety Failures In Time (FIT) rate, Failure modes, effects and diagnostic analysis (FMEDA), safety certificates and software diagnostics libraries, to help you streamline the certification process. 

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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.
Functional safety information
Design Smaller Safe Torque Off (STO) Systems Using 3-Phase Smart Gate Drivers
Learn about our 3-phase smart gate drivers, released as Functional Safety Quality-Managed devices for your next Safe-Torque-Off (STO) system design.
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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.

Design functionally safe, affordable perception systems

Accurate perception needs increased levels of sensing and processing. Our high-performance processors with hardware accelerated vision, sensor fusion and AI processing are designed for safety. With high-level integration, our devices allow you to design functionally safe perception systems with low-power, small form-factor and optimized system cost. 

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Robot navigation using SLAM
In this demo, Texas Instruments, Ignitarium and Kudan demonstrate autonomous robot navigation using SLAM and ROS on TDA4x processors.
White paper
Designing an Efficient Edge AI System with Highly Integrated Processors (Rev. A)
This white paper explains the requirements for building an efficient edge artificial intelligence (AI) system and how the TI TDA4 processor family can help optimize performance due to a heterogenous architecture.
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How are sensors and processors creating more intelligent and autonomous robots?
Autonomous robots are intelligent machines that can understand and navigate through its environment without human control or intervention. Learn use cases, design considerations and challenges when designing autonomous robots. 
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TDA4VM ACTIVE Dual Arm® Cortex®-A72 SoC and C7x DSP with deep-learning, vision and multimedia accelerators
DRA821U ACTIVE Dual Arm Cortex-A72, quad Cortex-R5F, 4-port Ethernet switch, and a PCIe controller
AM625 ACTIVE Human-machine-interaction SoC with Arm® Cortex®-A53-based edge AI and full-HD dual display

Design & development resources

Reference design
48V/500W Three-phase Inverter with Smart Gate Driver Reference Design for Servo Drives
Efficiency, protection, and integration are important design factors for compact DC-fed drives up to 60VDC. This reference design shows a three-phase inverter with nominal 48-V DC input and a 10-ARMS output current.  The 100-V intelligent three-phase gate driver DRV8350R with integrated buck (...)
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48V/10A High Frequency PWM 3-Phase GaN Inverter Reference Design for High-Speed Drives
Low voltage, high-speed drives and/or low inductance brushless motors require higher inverter switching frequencies in the range of 40 kHz to 100 kHz to minimize losses and torque ripple in the motor. The TIDA-00909 reference design achieves that by using a 3-phase inverter with three 80V/10A (...)
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Autonomous robot reference design using ROS on Sitara™ MPU & antenna-on-package mmWave sensors

This reference design showcases autonomous robotics with the Processor SDK Linux running on the Sitara AM57x processor, and the mmWave SDK running on the IWR6843 EVM. This design demonstrates the functionality of an embedded robotic system where point-cloud data from the mmWave radar sensing is (...)

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Technical resources

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E-book: An engineer’s guide to industrial robot designs
A compendium of technical documentation on robotic system designs.
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BeagleBone® AI-64
Simplify your design and development process starting with this system developed for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning solutions.
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Robotics SDK
The Jacinto Robotics SDK provides software development environment on the latest TDA4 class of SoCs, and also provides software building blocks and example demos that can be leveraged in robotics software development.