Accelerate AMR Time to Market with Kudan and Intel
Develop, build, and deploy spatially aware autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) faster and easier with a complete end-to-end solution from Intel and Kudan.
Build Robust and Reliable AMRs for Challenging Environments
Kudan and Intel are helping today’s top OEMs and developers overcome the costly and complex barriers they face in rolling out AMRs that are accurate, spatially aware, and ready to operate.
Kudan’s commercial-ready SLAM software (KdVisual) takes advantage of key Intel® technologies to help you bring your AMR to life—faster and more cost-effectively while lowering CPU usage and power consumption. Intel® Core processors deliver unparalleled SLAM performance for increased speed, accuracy, and reliability, while Intel® Edge Insights for AMR (EI for AMR) accelerates development applications for robot mapping and navigation.
Solve your most pressing deployment problems and roll out AMRs that are spatially aware and ready to operate with the help of Kudan and Intel.
Why Intel and Kudan for AMRs?
An End-to-End Solution for Every Industry
Kudan SLAM software, accelerated by Intel® technologies, enables use cases across the manufacturing, logistics, warehouse, energy, agriculture, hospitality, healthcare, retail, and infrastructure industries.
Optimizations for Leading AMR Performance
Through extensive joint efforts, Kudan solutions have been optimized for select Intel® processors to deliver leading AMR advantages, including lower CPU usage and power consumption, improved accuracy, and reduced costs.
Ongoing Innovation and Collaboration
Together, Intel and Kudan work to provide innovative, complementary technologies that help address today’s most-pressing AMR challenges and shape the future of robotics industry.
Advantages of Kudan’s Next-Generation SLAM Software for AMRs
KdVisual software uses sensor fusion, proprietary algorithms, and various modes of operation to enable mapping and tracking capabilities for AMRs. KdVisual streamlines and accelerates SLAM integration into AMRs by including prevalidated files, documentation, and presets of parameters that don’t require significant tuning, back-and-forth iterations, or troubleshooting by developers.
Repeatability and Accuracy
Keeps repeatability error rates under 1 cm and is 2x more accurate than ORB-SLAM2.1
Robustness and Reliability
Maintains accuracy even when up to 95 percent of the scenery conditions are changed.
Compatibility
Works seamlessly with Intel® RealSense™ Depth Cameras and can be configured for other cameras.
Superior Processing Speed
Achieves 2x to 10x faster processing when compared to popular open source alternatives.2
Memory Efficiency
Requires 10 to 20 percent less memory when compared to ORB-SLAM2 and ORB-SLAM3 and includes a mechanism to limit the memory usage under a certain threshold3
Fast and Simple Evaluation and Integration
Accelerates SLAM integration into existing ROS2 environments with prevalidated files, documentation, and presets that eliminate tuning, iterations, or troubleshooting by developers.
"This is an instance where the right technology partners align to create a market-leading technology solution for AMRs that enhances the experience for its customers. I look forward to working with our partners and customers with Kudan’s Intel® XPU-accelerated Visual SLAM software and Edge Insights for Autonomous Mobile Robot SDK.”
Adoption of AMRs has been changing operations and improving business outcomes across industries like manufacturing and retail. Kudan offers the SLAM algorithms and Intel brings the compute performance needed for AMRs. When you bring these prevalidated solutions together, it helps customers bring their AMRs to market.”
Begin Your Robot Build with Intel and Kudan
Maximize the performance of your robots with market-ready developer kits, software, and hardware solutions.
Build SLAM Applications Faster and Easier
Build SLAM software applications faster and easier with Kudan KdVisual software that’s included in the Intel® EI for AMR platform package for seamless integration.
Allow Your Robot to Perceive the World
Give AMRs the ability to see, understand, and move around environments. Kudan KdVisual software is optimized for Intel® RealSense™ D455 and D435i Depth Cameras.
Boost Performance for Your Most Demanding Jobs
Realize unparalleled performance for increased speed, accuracy, and reliability with hardware-accelerating optimizations of the Kudan SLAM algorithm on 11th Gen Intel® Core™ processors or 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors and beyond.
Explore Resources for AMR Development, Deployment, and Optimization
Learn more about Intel and Kudan’s partnership and their complementary technologies that bring AMRs to life.