Roborock, a worldwide chief in clever dwelling robotics, has launched the clever sweeping and mopping all-in-one robotic Roborock Qrevo Slim at IFA 2024 in Berlin, outfitted with an modern 3D digital camera module for navigation and impediment avoidance utilizing the REAL3 Time-of-Flight (ToF) imager by Infineon Applied sciences. The know-how permits to scale back dimension and enhance reliability. In comparison with the physique top of conventional sweeping and mopping robots of round 100 mm, the general top of the Roborock Qrevo Slim is barely 82 mm, permitting it to move by decrease and narrower areas whereas offering excessive reliability.
“The mixing of our REAL3 ToF into Roborock’s cleansing robotic is a good instance of how Infineon know-how is used to speed up product innovation within the sensible dwelling sector,” mentioned Andreas Kopetz, Vice President Ambient Sensing at Infineon. “Our hybrid ToF resolution targets a quickly rising shopper robotic market, enabling prospects to develop distinctive robotic designs whereas lowering system prices and complexity.”
Roborock has teamed up with Infineon, pmdtechnologies and OMS to develop a subsequent technology robotic resolution that makes use of hybrid Time-of-Flight (hToF) to exchange the normal laser distance scanner (LDS) module and impediment avoidance module. hToF is a mix of Infineon’s REAL3 ToF imager, a twin infra-red illumination sources and pmd’s processing know-how to supply a robust resolution for consumer-grade robots. It helps simultaneous localization and map constructing (SLAM), impediment avoidance and cliff detection capabilities in a single digital camera module manufactured by OMS.
“At pmd, we’re proud to have performed a number one function within the growth and optimization of the hybrid Time-of-Flight (hToF) system that powers Roborock’s newest innovation. By contributing our superior 3D pixels, our experience in infra-red illumination, and our processing know-how into the hToF module, we’ve been capable of create a extremely environment friendly, compact resolution that considerably enhances navigation and impediment avoidance capabilities,” mentioned Jochen Penne, Managing Director at pmdtechnologies ag.
The high-resolution depth and imaginative and prescient knowledge is completely suited to strong impediment avoidance algorithms whereas the open-source SLAM algorithm primarily based on hToF depth knowledge generates high-precision maps, making certain correct and dependable navigation. As well as, hToF is working in darkness and robust daylight. It’s computationally environment friendly and streamlined, requiring e.g. just one Cortex A55 processor core for depth processing and SLAM computation duties out of eight obtainable cores.
Roborock has pioneered the mass manufacturing of LDS know-how since 2016 and is selling it as the usual configuration for sweeping robots. The corporate is the primary to make use of the hybrid Time-of-Flight system of their new technology of sweeping robots.
