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1. Introduction to Weeding Robots

In the agricultural sector, traditional weeding methods are not only inefficient and costly but can also lead to environmental pollution. With advancements in technology, intelligent weeding robots have emerged as important tools in modern agriculture. This intelligent weeding robot employs advanced machine vision and artificial intelligence technologies to precisely identify weeds and crops, enabling automated and intelligent weeding operations. This significantly enhances agricultural productivity while protecting the ecological environment.

2. Product Features

Precision Identification: Equipped with a high-performance image recognition system, it accurately differentiates between weeds and crops, ensuring precise weeding, avoiding crop damage, and improving weeding efficiency.

Autonomous Navigation: The built-in advanced navigation system autonomously plans the work path, adapting to different shapes and sizes of fields to ensure comprehensive coverage without leaving any blind spots.

Eco-Friendly and Energy-Efficient: Powered by batteries with zero emissions, it reduces reliance on chemical herbicides, decreasing chemical residues in agricultural products and protecting soil and the environment.

Intelligent Learning: Capable of self-learning and optimization, it adjusts strategies based on the working environment to enhance weeding effectiveness and reduce energy consumption.

3. Product Design Challenges

High-Performance Requirements: Weeding operations require the main control system to have high processing power and computational speed to support real-time image processing and complex algorithms. High performance often comes with high power consumption, challenging the robot’s endurance.

High-Temperature Stability: Outdoor environments are variable, requiring the main control system to have strong environmental adaptability to withstand dust, moisture, high temperatures, and other harsh conditions, ensuring long-term stable operation.

Machine Learning Capabilities: Improving the control system's recognition and decision-making abilities through machine learning involves complex issues such as data collection, model training, and optimization.

Diverse Interfaces: The main control system should offer a variety of interfaces to support different types of sensors and communication modules.

4. Folinx Implementation Solution

To address these challenges, Forlinx's embedded FET3588J-C platform provides powerful hardware support for the intelligent weeding robot, featuring the following significant advantages:

High Performance: The combination of a quad-core Cortex-A76 and a quad-core Cortex-A55 processor ensures strong performance under high load while achieving low power consumption during low load, meeting the dual demands of performance and power efficiency for intelligent weeding robots.

Image Processing Capability: FET3588J-C supports a 48-megapixel ISP3.0 and various image processing functions, significantly enhancing image capture quality and providing robust support for precise weed and crop identification.

Rich Interface Resources: Provides various interface resources to connect different sensors and expansion devices, meeting the diverse application needs of intelligent weeding robots.

Powerful AI Capabilities: With a built-in NPU providing up to 6 TOPS of computing power, the robot gains substantial AI learning and edge computing capabilities, enabling it to intelligently handle various weeding tasks.

Product Stability: Rigorous environmental temperature and stress testing ensures stable operation in complex environments, providing reliable performance assurance for the intelligent weeding robot.

In summary, Forlinx's FET3588J-C, as a hardware implementation solution for intelligent weeding robots, offers exceptional performance, rich interface resources, powerful AI computing capabilities, and overall stability. It provides robust support for the development of intelligent weeding robots, delivering a more efficient and intelligent solution for weeding tasks.

Originally published at www.forlinx.net.

Marine instrument panels are critical display and monitoring devices on ships, crucial for ensuring maritime safety, efficiency, and comfort. Real-time monitoring of vital ship information such as position, speed, heading, and engine status through marine instrument panels enables prompt adjustments and decision-making. They not only enhance the precision and reliability of ship operations but also help reduce accident risks, ensuring safe navigation. Moreover, the digital and intelligent design of marine instrument panels allows crew members to manage and control ships more efficiently, improving operational efficiency. They are key tools for ship operation and management.

With the continuous advancement of maritime technology, there is an increasing demand for intelligence and digitization in modern ships. As a core component for ship information display and monitoring, the performance and stability of marine instrument panels are crucial to meet modern maritime needs for information display, data monitoring, and navigation safety. Specific objectives include:

Providing a clear and intuitive instrument display interface enables crew members to quickly access navigation information.

Facilitating compatibility with various data interfaces enables seamless data transmission with onboard sensors and equipment.

Ensuring that instrument panels can operate stably in harsh maritime environments, with high resistance to interference and waterproof performance, is essential.

Based on the above characteristics, the hardware platform of modern marine instrument panels should possess the following features:

High-performance processor: Ensures fast response and accurate display of navigation information, equipped with powerful data processing and graphic rendering capabilities.

Rich Data Interfaces: Integrated with multiple data interfaces such as display ports, serial ports, Ethernet ports, USB ports, etc., enabling seamless connection with various sensors and devices onboard ships for easy data display, real-time acquisition, and transmission.

Reliability Design: The hardware itself demands high quality and stability to ensure long-term reliable operation in harsh maritime environments.

Based on a modern marine instrument screen hardware platform, Forlinx Embedded recommends FET3588J-C as the hardware development solution.

Product Characteristics

High-performance processor: Quad-core 64-bit Cortex-A72 + quad-core Cortex-A55 architecture with integrated 6 TOPS NPU for enhanced AI learning and edge computing capabilities in diverse operational scenarios.

Rich Display Interfaces: Offers multiple interfaces such as HDMI, eDP, DP, MIPI-DSI, supporting various display types including up to 8K output, meeting diverse requirements for maritime instrumentation screens. At the same time, it supports four-screen display function, which enables the crew to monitor multiple important parameters at the same time and improve work efficiency.

High-efficiency Graphics Processing: Integrates ARM Mali-G610 MP4 quad-core GPU, fully compatible with OpenGLES 1.1, 2.0, and 3.2, OpenCL up to 2.2, and Vulkan 1.2. Enables maritime instrumentation screens to efficiently handle complex graphic tasks such as real-time rendering and 3D map display, enhancing user operational experience.

Versatile Peripheral Interfaces: Features include dual Gigabit Ethernet, USB 3.1, PCIe 3.0, and 10 UART ports, enhancing data speed and efficiency. This strengthens maritime instrumentation screen functionality, meets navigation needs, and ensures stable data transmission and efficient device communication.

Robust and Reliable Performance: The RK3588J platform meets industrial-grade temperature range standards and has undergone rigorous testing to provide stable performance support for high-end applications. During maritime navigation, stable and reliable instrumentation screens are crucial for ensuring the safety of vessels. FET3588J-C SoM's excellent performance ensures reliable operation of the instrumentation screen in harsh environments, providing accurate data feedback to the crew.