Autonomous forklift navigating a warehouse aisle with real-time object detection and depth analysis displayed on the monitoring screen.

AMD

Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation with AMD Embedded Platforms

Robotec.ai integrated its RoSi digital twin and simulation platform with AMD Kria™ KR260 SOM to validate robotics software directly on embedded hardware. This Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) approach enables safe, efficient, and deterministic testing of industrial automation systems.

Goals

Verify robotics and automation software directly on embedded hardware
Enable real-time validation of autonomous navigation and sensor processing
Reduce costs and risks of physical prototyping in industrial environments
Accelerate transition from simulation to real-world deployments
Improve determinism, efficiency, and reliability in automation systems

Benefits

Real-time validation of robotics on target hardware
Reduced costs and risks of physical prototyping
FPGA acceleration for safety and determinism
Faster transition from simulation to deployment

Challenge

In industrial automation, validating robotics software on actual embedded platforms is essential for safety, performance, and determinism.
Traditional approaches relied on costly, slow, and risky physical prototyping. Robotec.ai needed a method to test and optimize applications on embedded hardware prior to field deployment.

Solution

Robotec.ai partnered with AMD to integrate Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) simulation using:

AMD Kria™ KR260 Robotics SOM
AMD Radeon GPU-based workstations

The setup included:

ROS interfaces with Robotec’s digital twin for seamless hardware connectivity
Offloading stereo-vision depth processing to FPGA for real-time determinism
Running full operational simulations via RoSi while validating on AMD hardware
Using Vitis™ Accelerated Libraries for fast prototyping of AI-driven perception and control algorithms

This setup enabled software validation under realistic conditions without physical risks.