Qualcomm® Robotics RB1 Platform (Qualcomm® QRB2210)

Dream up and deploy a new generation of everyday robotics and IoT products for the masses without sacrificing features or performance.

The Qualcomm Robotics RB1 platform integrates high-level features, AI solutions, and powerful performance in a unified, cost-effective solution giving OEMs, ODMs, and developers the flexibility to design and create a generation of high-performance everyday robotics and IoT products. The Qualcomm Robotics RB1 combines heterogeneous compute and AI focused performance, communications technologies, and new levels of cost-effectiveness and accessibility for the industry. The platform is optimized for smaller devices and lower power consumption.
This extends to their built-in support for machine vision; support for up to two cameras, providing onboard intelligence to meld this data with other high-fidelity sensors from TDK for applications such as autonomous navigation.

Applications:

Qualcomm® Robotics RB1 Platform Applications

Service Robot

Dash Camera

Smart Display Assistant

Smart Gateway

Industrial Handheld

Qualcomm® Robotics RB1 Platform Highlights

Powerful heterogenous computing

The Qualcomm Robotics RB1 platform is a robust entry-level offering, enabling reliable performance with upgraded features at low power consumption in its tier. Equipped with Cortex A53 CPU architecture and Adreno 702 GPU, this is a cost-effective solution delivering high performance and graphics capabilities.

High performance camera capabilities

Delivers best-in-class image quality and resolution with two concurrent cameras. Multi-frame Noise Reduction for low light capture, image stabilization, forward-looking bad pixel correction, sharp edges, radial de-noising, etc. are key features.

Common software support with Qualcomm® Robotics RB2 platform

The Qualcomm® Robotics RB1 and Qualcomm Robotics RB2 platforms share common software. Developers can decrease development time and reduce costs associated with creating applications across both platforms. It also allows OEMs to address multiple tiers of the market with RB1 and RB2 platforms.

Full development kit for robotics and IoT

Further reduce development time and complexity using a feature packed development kit. The kit includes the robotics-focused development board based on the QRB2210 processor. The platform offers support for Linux and Robot Operating System (ROS) 2, as well as pre-integrated drivers for various cameras, sensors and connectivity.

Power efficient and cost-effective

Designed to support entry tier robots and IoT devices with challenging power and thermal dissipation requirements.

Qualcomm® Robotics RB1 Platform Features

• Customized 64-bit ARM Cortex-A53 quad-core applications processor at up to 2.0 GHz

• Dedicated DSP shared between sensor core and low-power audio subsystem

• Qualcomm® Adreno™ GPU 702 @ 845 MHz, 3D graphics accelerator with 64-bit addressing

• Dual-channel non-PoP high-speed memory

• Qualcomm® Universal Bandwidth Compression (UBWC) with GPU

• Display support: HD+, 720 × 1680 at 60 Hz, 10 bit end-to-end, and up to four hardware layer composition. Features Qualcomm® Low-Power Picture Enhancement and Qualcomm® True Palette Display

• 2x ISP (13 MP + 13 MP or 25 MP) at 30 fps ZSL

• Support for eMMC 5.1, SD 3.0, and USB 3.1 Type-C

• Always-on subsystem with RPM for power management

• Long term support with extended life hardware and software support through 2027

Specifications of the Qualcomm® Robotics RB1 Development Kit

Component Qualcomm® Robotics RB1 Development Kit
CPU Customized 64-bit ARM Cortex-A53 quad-core applications processor at up to 2.0 GHz
GPU Qualcomm® Adreno™ GPU 702 @ 845 MHz, 3D graphics accelerator with 64-bit addressing
Wi-Fi 1 × 1 802.11a/b/g/n/ac
Bluetooth Specification Version: Bluetooth® 5.0
Camera 2x ISP (13 MP + 13 MP or 25 MP) at 30 fps ZSL;
Two 4-lane CSIs (4/4 or 4/2/1) D-PHY 1.2 at 2.5 Gbps per lane or C-PHY 1.0 at 10 Gbps (3.42 Gbps/trio)
Video 1080p30 8-bit HEVC (H.265)/H.264 encode and decode;
Concurrency: 1080p30 decode + 720p30 encode
Security Secure boot, secure debug, secure key provisioning, TrustZone, Qualcomm ® Trusted Execution Environment, hardware supported KeyStore
Memory Dual-channel non-PoP high-speed memory, LPDDR4X SDRAM designed for 1804 MHz clock (2 × 16 bit) and LPDDR3 SDRAM designed for 933 MHz clock (1 × 32 bit)
Part Part Number(s): QRB2210
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Everything You Need to Generate System Image

RB1 SDK Manager provides an end-to-end image generation/downloading solution for developers to work with RB1 devices.


Highlights

• Generate system image on local PC

• Version control of official image releases

• Flash full build into RB1 device

• Designed for developers

System Requirements

• Host OS: Ubuntu Desktop 18.04

• Alternative: Ubuntu 18.04 on Docker

NOTE: Ubuntu under libvirt KVM/QEMU is not supported

What’s in RB1 SDK Manager

• SDK Manager debian package

• README (User guide)

• Dockerfile for generating Ubuntu 18.04 docker image


Release Note for Updated Image:

Release note for LE image
QRB2210.LE.1.0-Post-CS6:
1.Based on Qualcomm release r00017.0
2.Propose based on PVT1.1 96board HW
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QRB2210.LE.1.0-Post-CS5:
1.Based on Qualcomm release r00016.0
2.Propose based on PVT1.1 96board HW
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QRB2210.LE.1.0-Post-CS4:

1.Based on Qualcomm release r00015.0
2.Propose based on PVT1.1 96board HW
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QRB2210.LE.1.0-Post-CS2:
1. Based on Qualcomm release r00013.0
2. Propose based on PVT HW
Notes: please refer to Qualcomm official release notes for complete support lists of QC releases

Release Note for SDK Manager

New Features in SDK manager v4.0.0:

- Optimize the product selection interface
- Support for RB5N Non-pop

New Features in SDK manager v3.3.0:

- Update README_Linux.txt
- Update README_Windows.txt

New Features in SDK manager v3.2.0:

-Support for RB5 LU2.0

New Features in SDK manager v3.1.0:

-Support for RB1
-Support for RB2

New Features in SDK manager v3.0.0:

-Support for RB6 Non-pop

New Features in SDK manager v2.1.0:

-Enable LE SDK toolchain download

New Features in SDK manager v2.0.0:

- Commands to download LE releases

New Features in SDK manager v1.2.0:

- Update README

New Features in SDK manager v1.1.0:

- Modify flash method

- Update README

New Features in SDK Manager v1.0.1:

- Update README

- Add debug message on flashing

- Minor fixes

New Features in SDK Manager v1.0.0:

- User credential check

- Dynamic image version control

- Enable system image repack

- Enable full build flash on Ubuntu


Troubleshoot

1. Internet Timeout Issue

Internet timeout issue may happen during the image generation process. If issues like "Unable to fetch" are encountered, try to run command 1 again.

2. Apt Source issue

If the download fails, check the internet connection and the source list.

3. Device Boots Up

The device reboots after the flashing process is completed. If the sdkmanager does not detect the device, execute the followings:

1) If Ubuntu 18.04 is used on Docker, check whether "adb kill-server" is entered on the host PC before flashing image.

2) Reboot the device manually, open a new terminal window and enter 'adb shell' to check device.

3) Check if any debian packages are modified.

4. If flash process on Ubuntu systems does not work properly, copy full-build folder to a Windows PC and use Thundercomm MULTIDL_TOOL to flash the image. Refer to Here for the tool and user guide.

5. SDK manager flash issue

If issue like 'qdl failed, sahara failed' is encountered, enter the following command on host machine before restart the flash.

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Qualcomm® Robotics RB1 Development Kit (Core Kit)
Package List: SOM & Interposer + Main IO Board + Antennas + Power Adapter
Qualcomm® Robotics RB1 Development Kit (Vision Kit)
Package List: SOM & Interposer + Main IO Board + Vision Mezzanine Board + Camera + Antennas + Power Adapter
Qualcomm® Robotics RB1 Development Kit (Full Kit)
Package List: SOM & Interposer + Main IO Board + Vision Mezzanine Board + Display + Camera + Antennas + Power Adapter

Qualcomm® Robotics RB1 Development Kit:

TDK Mezzanine Board
The TDK Mezzanine Board includes all the latest technologies offerings from TDK focused on the Robotics industry. The TDK Mezzanine combines the market leading performance of the ICM-42688-P IMU with the World’s Highest Performing Digital Microphone (T5818) and TDK’s Ultrasonic Time-of-Flight (ToF) range finder (CH-101 and CH-201). These sensors are accompanied by TDK’s Motor Driver (HVC4420F-B1), Barometric Pressure (ICP-10111), and TDK’s newest industrial grade IMU Module, the IIM-46230. The TDK Mezzanine is the perfect complement to the RB5 platform and provides all the sensor data needed to help fast track development of next generation robotics.
Note: TDK Mezzanine Board require RB5 platform since it cannot work alone.
Package List: TDK Mezzanine Board + Bracket

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