Suanfeng Journey is a service robot R&D and manufacturing company with full-stack design capabilities in “AI algorithms + hardware”. To date, it has independently developed multiple systems and products, including the “AI Visual Recognition System”, the Goose Inspection Robot, and the Goose Delivery Robot, providing high-performance customized inspection robots for numerous clients in various fields both domestically and internationally.
The company has a R&D team composed of technical talents and industry experts from leading research institutions such as Peking University. It is also a council member of the “China Mobile Robot (AGV) Industry Alliance” and a member of the “Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence”.
Goose Inspection Robot is mainly used for indoor and outdoor full-scene inspections in various parks, including industrial parks, office buildings, shopping malls, parks, and airports. It replaces security personnel for patrols and inspections, including checking equipment operating conditions, reading instrument data, detecting leaks in pipelines, smoke and fire detection, thermal imaging, license plate recognition, etc. It can work continuously 24 hours a day and autonomously recharge, greatly improving operational efficiency while reducing operational costs for park management units.
Goose Delivery Robot is used for last-mile delivery in logistics, capable of smoothly navigating in indoor and outdoor scenarios such as roads and communities, creating contactless delivery for logistics and unmanned delivery for supermarkets. It reduces the delivery burden in the logistics and takeaway industries. It can connect to the IoT, autonomously take elevators, complete point-to-point multi-warehouse deliveries, and also return autonomously and recharge.
Goose Inspection Robot and Delivery Robot
Facing Obstacle Avoidance, Positioning, and Control Challenges
1. Obstacle Avoidance
To enable the robot to navigate safely, it needs to quickly and accurately perceive the environment and avoid obstacles in a timely manner. The time for the robot to collect and process environmental information needs to be reduced to the millisecond level.
2. Positioning
The Goose Inspection Robot and Delivery Robot are fully autonomous 5G robots that can autonomously recharge and execute tasks. To successfully and accurately complete tasks, the robots must possess highly precise positioning technology.
3. Control
The Goose Inspection Robot and Delivery Robot are mainly used in various parks. To safely complete tasks, the robots need to enhance planning and control, with their path planning needing to reach kilometer-level accuracy.
NVIDIA Jetson Builds for Suanfeng Journey
End-to-End AI Technology Solutions Provide Computing Power Support
Suanfeng Journey uses AI + visual recognition algorithms to provide personalized inspection robot solutions for clients. The Goose Inspection Robot and Delivery Robot are equipped with NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX 16GB, enabling faster information processing. Its system-on-module (SOM) is compact, similar in size to a credit card, yet provides super performance for edge computing while being energy-efficient. This unique combination of form factor, performance, and power consumption is very suitable for Suanfeng Journey’s series of innovative edge devices, improving work efficiency for clients while reducing management and operational costs. In addition, the NVIDIA CUDA platform also provides many conveniences in training deep learning models. The overall solution can achieve millisecond-level autonomous obstacle avoidance, centimeter-level high-precision positioning, and kilometer-level path planning.NVIDIA JetPack plays a crucial role in building end-to-end accelerated AI application solutions in robot development, providing a complete development environment for hardware-accelerated edge AI development.1. Millisecond-Level Autonomous Obstacle AvoidanceThe robot integrates multiple sensors, including laser and vision, to achieve optimal perception. With the help of NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX‘s 21 TOPS ultra-high computing power, it can simultaneously process data from multiple high-resolution sensors, allowing the robot to detect, track, and predict obstacles with timely and effective responses, achieving millisecond-level autonomous obstacle avoidance.
2. Centimeter-Level High-Precision PositioningThe robot’s positioning system integrates multiple positioning methods, including GPS and LiDAR, while also supporting satellite navigation. It has received significant assistance from deep learning models in mapping paradigms. After collecting positioning data, with the support of NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX‘s low-power high-performance computing, it can quickly obtain the final positioning results. The entire positioning solution enables the robot to achieve rapid high-precision positioning in various indoor and outdoor scenarios, fulfilling the robot’s ability to navigate freely indoors and outdoors, truly realizing “dual-domain integration”.
3. Kilometer-Level Path PlanningThe robot’s control module integrates the Lanele2 map engine, performing global path planning through the Mission Planning module, enabling complete navigation functionality from the vehicle’s current location to waypoints and then to the destination. Coupled with motion planning algorithms and control algorithms, along with the support of NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX in terms of computing power, it ultimately achieves kilometer-level path planning.
Additionally, besides the support of NVIDIA Jetson Xavier in edge computing and the conveniences provided by the NVIDIA CUDA platform in training deep learning models, the NVIDIA JetPack also provides strong assistance in building end-to-end AI technology solutions for Suanfeng Journey.NVIDIA Jetson has provided significant support for the two robots of Suanfeng Journey during the early R&D phase. The R&D team of Suanfeng Journey has obtained some technical materials through the NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute (DLI) and this year, Suanfeng Journey joined the NVIDIA Startup Accelerator Program, hoping to receive more support in product, technology, market, and business aspects in the future, and to engage in deeper cooperation with both parties.
NVIDIA Startup Accelerator Program
Suanfeng Journey is a member of the NVIDIA Startup Accelerator Program (NVIDIA Inception). The NVIDIA Startup Accelerator Program is a free membership program aimed at nurturing outstanding startups that disrupt industry patterns. This program collaborates with well-known venture capital institutions, startup incubators, accelerators, industry partners, and technology startup media to create an entrepreneurial acceleration ecosystem. It can provide a series of services such as product discounts, technical support, market promotion, financing connections, and business recommendations to accelerate the development of startups.
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