Vision-AI ADAS provider oToBrite is partnering industrial IoT specialist Advantech to co-develop advanced autonomous mobile robots (AMR). The collaboration will integrate oToBrite’s high-speed automotive GMSL cameras with Advantech’s AFE-R360 industrial IoT platform. The aim is to enable high-resolution, low-latency AI for next-generation industrial AMRs.

oToBrite has manufactured several vision-AI ADAS products for major automakers. The company has integrated GMSL technology in products like L2+ ADAS and L4 autonomous valet parking. Those products rely on high-speed data transmission to handle the large data flow from multiple cameras and enable real-time vision-AI processing in vehicles.

Integration of GMSL technology addresses the needs for real-time, uncompressed, and high-resolution perception in AMR. The oToCAM222 series with 2.5M pixels offers multiple viewing angles (63.9°/120.6°/195.9°). The camera has high-speed, low-latency data processing and IP67/69K-rated durability.

The AFE-R360 platform incorporates Intel’s Core Ultra 16-core processor with Arc graphics and an integrated neural processing unit (NPU). It provides up to 32 trillion operations per second (TOPs), enhanced by the OpenVINO toolkit for optimised AI performance. The system also includes a 3.5″ single board computer (SBC) supporting up to eight MIPI-CSI lanes for GMSL input. This provides low latency and high noise immunity for autonomous operations, as well as 3 LAN and 3 USB-C ports for integrating depth and LiDAR sensors.