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Renesas Electronics Corporation

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Description

Ignitarium's vacuum cleaner robot is an autonomous mobile robot expressly created to show the practical uses of Renesas components in empowering small-scale robotic applications. This functionality revolves around the incorporation of the Renesas RZ/V2H MPU as its primary processing unit, expertly handling tasks like SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping), precise localization, AI-driven perception, and intricate path planning. To complement the RZ/V2H, low-level motor control is driven through the Renesas RA6M5 MCU, featuring a customized setup complete with an integrated IMU (Inertial Measurement Unit) to substantially enhance localization. 

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Ignitarium Vacuum Cleaner Robot

Features

  • Support DRP based Monocular Visual SLAM and additional input to the ROS2 navigation stack for better localization
  • DRP-AI for advanced deep learning neural network-based features (ex: obstacle avoidance)
  • Full ROS2 framework to enable sensor integration, localization/SLAM mapping, path-planning and navigation with 2D Lidar
  • Free RTOS + micro-ROS combination enables motor control & micro-ROS publisher for wheel encoder data

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