Edge Insights for Autonomous Mobile Robots (EI for AMR) Robot Orchestration Get Started Guide

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Requirements Step 1: Prepare Your Machines Step 2: SFTP Server Setup Step 3: Install Intel® Smart Edge Open, Tailored for EI for AMR Step 4: Install the EI for AMR Server Complete Kit Step 5: Install the ThingsBoard* Reference Step 6: OpenVINO™ Model Server Setup Step 7: Device Onboarding Control Plane Setup Deepen Your Knowledge Troubleshooting Terminology Notices and Disclaimers
Edge Insights for Autonomous Mobile Robots (EI for AMR) Robot Orchestration

Edge Insights for Autonomous Mobile Robots (EI for AMR) Robot Orchestration

There are multiple pieces in the robot orchestration setup: the control plane, edge nodes, and robots. The control plane and zero or more edge nodes form an Intel® Smart Edge Open edge cluster.

This Get Started Guide refers to the control plane, edge nodes, and robots in the following ways.

  • Control plane: Used to control all edge nodes and robots through Kubernetes*. In a Single-Node deployment, the control plane and edge nodes(s) are installed on the same machine. In a Multi-Node deployment, the control plane and edge nodes(s) are on separate machines.

    • There can only be one control plane.

    • Only the control plane knows about the edge nodes. If a robot wants to offload to an edge node, it asks the control plane, and the control plane routes the request to an edge node.

  • Edge node: One or more edge nodes which EI for AMR uses for resource intensive actions like:

    • Remote inference

    • Collaborative SLAM

    • Other actions that help EI for AMR robots perform their purpose efficiently

    From a Kubernetes* perspective, an edge node is an on-premise, stationary worker node.

    • An edge node may be virtual or a physical machine.

    • An edge node can have multiple pods. The control plane handles scheduling the pods across all edge nodes in the cluster.

  • Pod: A pod encapsulates one or more application and always runs on a node. From a Kubernetes* perspective, a pod is the smallest execution unit.

  • Robot: One or more robots with the EI for AMR Robot Complete Kit or Robot Base Kit installed.

    • From a Kubernetes* perspective, a robot is an on-premise, mobile worker node.

    • Robots are added after the initial configuration using onboarding procedures. Whether the initial deployment is Single-Node or Multi-Node does not affect onboarding procedures.

All devices need to be in the same network. Usually, the control plane and the edge nodes are connected with a LAN connection. The robots are connected to the control plane with a Wi-Fi or 5G connection.

The currently supported versions are:

  • Base OS: Ubuntu* 20.04 LTS

  • ROS 2 with data distribution service: Foxy

  • Intel® Smart Edge Open: 21.12

  • ThingsBoard*: 3.3.4.1-CVE22965

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