Fanless Embedded Computer for Integrated tool automation detection

Highly integrated, cost-saving and efficient solution

  
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The production volume of various electronic products ishuge with the popularity of electronic appliances and rising demand. In order to ensure the complete functionality of the product, it is also indispensable for automated production and inspection. At present, most production companies still use manual testing. For daily production volume, manual inspection has high cost, low efficiency, and low cost performance. Based on the current market demand and development, from the perspective of cost-effective, speed, and reliability, automated production and machine vision inspection system puts forward higher requirements.

For automated production and visual inspection equipment vendors or system integrators, the systems used in traditional solutions are very complex, and quickly building differentiated solutions is a major challenge. As a benchmark, it requires:

ü  Industrial computer - communication, control and vision processing

ü  Frame grabber - Digitally captured images

ü  Light source controller - connect to lighting equipment

ü  PLC / motion controller - motion control

Then the integrated solution of integrated visualization, vision, motion and logic control has become the demand of equipment manufacturers and integrators, reducing the overall cost of the solution, reducing on-site labor costs and maintenance costs. Integrate new enterprise IoT functions and use artificial intelligence (AI) to make it more efficient.

Industrial automation requires that the entire control system is highly integrated to ensure the coordination of the entire production system. A large number of analog, digital, pulse, and switching signals are collected and processed through specially designed multi-channel input and output and high-speed processing by industrial computers is used for process control, motion control of an actuator, and multiple components on site Batch control and logic control. Based on high-speed processors, massive memory, multi-threaded processing, and high-speed communications, it better integrates all related systems, and has better coordination capabilities and faster processing speeds.

Solution

Taking the Integrated tool automation detection as an example, the entire workstation involves 4 motion and visual operating environments: loading position, appearance inspection, visual position allocation and barcode reading, and integrates 6 industrial cameras, as shown in Figure 1:

Figure 1. Integrated tool automation detection

The operation of the workstation requires powerful CPU computing ability combined with real-time and virtualization tools to achieve EtherCAT industrial bus motion control; the production environment is dust-free and requires Fanless design. Future Robot Technology Co., Ltd launched the following solutions:

ü  Visual motion controller, integrated motion control, visualization, vision cell, logic control

ü  Various standardized development languages

ü  Based on windows + real-time system, open and higher execution efficiency

ü  Analyze machine process data and build learning models to optimize key equipment data

Technology

With a feature-packed, low-power design, 8th Gen Intel® Core™ U-series processors bring high performance and connectivity to the edge for IoT applications. Designed for long-life availability and embedded use conditions where space and power are limited, these processors enable a wide range of solutions at 15W TDP, configurable down to 12.5W-ideal for handheld, battery-powered, and fanless devices.

High-quality visual and audio experiences

Create high-quality visual experiences with integrated Gen 9.5 Intel® Graphics and high-definition media capabilities that meet rising expectations for performance. Deliver smooth 4K content streaming on multiple displays, enable simultaneous monitoring of video feeds, and much more. Designs can support up to three displays.

Take audio experiences to a new level with enhanced speech and audio quality from microphones, voice activation and wake from standby, and enhanced playback with Intel® Smart Sound Technology and our programmable quad-core audio DSP, designed for low power consumption.

Capabilities for AI and deep learning

Deploy AI capabilities at the edge to capture, process, and analyze data for near-real-time insights. With high processor and integrated graphics performance combined with the Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ toolkit, you can improve capabilities like facial recognition in retail devices, license plate recognition and people counting in smart city solutions, and fast and accurate anomaly detection on manufacturing lines.

Advanced manageability and security

Intel® vPro™ technology-enabled features, such as Intel® Active Management Technology, provide out-of-band remote management for devices that are off premise or difficult to physically access.1 Intel® Software Guard Extensions (Intel® SGX) offers hardware-based memory encryption that isolates specific application code and data in memory. This allows user-level code to allocate private regions of memory, called enclaves, which are designed to be protected from processes running at higher privilege levels.

Solution Features

V600 series is a high-performance Fanless Embedded Industrial Computer. It adopts Intel® x86 architecture CPU and chipset as the system processor. The interface planning through FPGA provides powerful computing and excellent image processing performance. The provided library file can easily realize the programming of the controller, and the built-in automation control system.

ü  Intel® 8^thGeneration Processor

ü  Dual displays

ü  DDR4 memory, up to 64GB

ü  Intel Gigabit Ethernet interface

ü  Encoder, high-speed isolated industrial digital I/O

ü  Rugged Fanless structure design

V600 series provides USB3.0, Gigabit Ethernet ports, serial ports (RS232, RS485/CAN), encoder, remote switch, multi channel high-speed isolated industrial digital I/O, with digital filtering function, which can meet industrial automation needs.

No cross-platform software and language development burden, providing SDK development kits to assist customers in rapid secondary software development and shorten customer’s time to market.

V600 series is an intelligent and powerful embedded industrial computer that supports a wide range of application and convenient service deployment, and excels in Intelligent Transportation, Facility Management, Industrial Automation and Internet of Things (IoT) applications.

Figure 3. V600 series Fanless Embedded Computer

It has a good HMI. During the control process, various related information is displayed one by one, making it easy for the operator to operate the entire system. One can also perform real-time programming to achieve functions that cannot be completed by other systems and achieve the overall control.

This is an open system. Based on the existing technical achievements and related knowledge, engineers can design the entire control system faster and better. The human-machine interface is friendly, the interface is very simple, and the versatility of the components is good, so the debugging and maintenance of the entire system is also very simple. The access to information in the system is very convenient, and the communication with other upper layers is also very simple, and the relevant information can be seen at a glance.

Future Robot Technology Co., Limited (Future Robot in short) is a high-tech innovation enterprise focusing on Intelligent Manufacturing and Artificial Intelligence. Future Robot, with strong R&D capability and market demand-orientation, design and provide worldwide enterprises and individual users with Industrial Smart Camera, Vision Controller, Fanless Embedded Computer, PoE Frame Grabber, USB3.1 Expansion Card products which are for Industrial Automation, Robot, Machine Vision, Medical Application, Intelligent Transportation, Education and Internet of Things applications.

Expert team with rich experiences in Machine Vision, Motion Control and Edge Computing:

Hardware engineering team

- x86, FPGA, DSP, Layout and testing Engineers

Software engineering team

- BIOS engineers, FPGA, DSP, Algorithm software engineers and system development engineers.

Industrial and structure design engineering team

- structure design, multi board and model design

As a member of Intel IoT Solutions Alliance and partner of Intel IoT RFP Ready Kits, Future Robot Technology Co., Limited aim to provide reliable, high efficient and cost-effective standard and customized solutions for the customers worldwide.