Qualcomm Robotics RB5/RB6 - Qualcomm Robotics RB5 developer kit

Qualcomm Robotics RB5/RB6
Introduction
SoM Overview Why the RB5/RB6? Carrier Boards Qualcomm Robotics RB5 developer kit Qualcomm Robotics RB6 platform
Software Development Support
Boot Devices Thundercomm SDK Downloading SDK Installing SDK Generating Image and flashing Linaro Getting Started Flashing Bootloader Flashing Boot Image and Rootfs Special / Debug Modes Setting up board in EDL Mode Setting up board in Fastboot Mode
Development in the Board
Getting into the Board Using ADB Using Serial Console Using SSH Device Setup WiFi setup HDMI setup Update Ubuntu Packages
Build from source
Base Image Customize Image
Capture Subsystem
Hardware Capture Components Software Capture Components Building your own camera sensor driver
Image Processing and Acceleration Software
GPU Profiling Fast CV Installing Hexagon SDK Installing Fast CV Building your own Fast CV application
GStreamer Pipelines
Capture and Display Video Encoding Video Decoding
AI Acceleration
Neural Processing SDK Downloading Requirements Setup SDK Environment Install qtimlesnpe Running Inception v3 Running MobileNetV2 + SSD TensorFlow Example pipeline TensorFlow to DLC Conversion
Sensors
IMU
Demos
Drone Demo Smart Camera
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The Qualcomm Robotics RB5 Developer Kit was built to be compliant with the 96Boards open hardware specification to support mezzanine-board expansions, and offers support for Linux, Ubuntu, ROS (Robot Operating System) 2 and AWS RoboMaker. The kit comes in two versions, the Core kit and the Vision Kit . Figure 1 shows the main parts of the developer kit.

Figure 1: Developer Kit Overview

Qualcomm Robotics RB5 Core Kit includes:

• The mainboard with the RB5 SoM
• Wall power adapter.
• USB Type-C cable.

Qualcomm Robotics RB5 Vision Kit includes:

• Qualcomm Robotics RB5 Core Kit with Vision mezzanine, tracking and main camera attached.

Developer Kit Components

This section overviews the main components available in the Qualcomm Robotics RB5 developer kit main carrier board and in the vision mezzanine .

Figure 2: Developer Kit Front View

Figure 3: Developer Kit Left View

Figure 4: Developer Kit Back View

Figure 5: Developer Kit Right View

Figure 6: Developer Kit Buttons and DIP Switches

Figure 7: Developer Kit Force USB Boot Button

Main carrier board

The mainboard includes the following components. Numbers inside parenthesis match with the numbers in Figures 2-7:

Power

• 1x +12V DC Power jack (12)

Storage

• 1x microSD card slot (1)

Ethernet

• 1x RJ45 1GbE connector (13)

Wireless

• 2x 2.4/5 GHz WLAN/Bluetooth antennas

CAN

• 1x External CAN controller with SPI

USB

• 1x Micro USB 2.0 for debugging (10)
• 1x USB Type-C 3.0 (3)
• 2x USB Type-A 3.0 (4) (7)
• 1x USB 3.1 Gen 2 10 GB four port hub controller
• 1x USB 3.0 to 1 GB Ethernet controller

Display

• 1x HDMI 1.4 Type-A, up to 4K@60Hz with audio (2)

Audio

• 2x Class-D Qualcomm WSA8815 Amplifiers
• 1x PDM digital MEMS microphone

Sensor

• 1x 3-axis gyroscope
• 1x 3-axis accelerometer

Expansion interfaces

• 3x High-speed connectors
• 3x Low-speed connectors

LED

• 7x LED Indicators:
  • 4x User Controllable (6)
  • 2x For radios -WLAN activity (5)
  • 1x Power indicator

Buttons

• Power (18)
• Volume down (17)
• Volume up (16)
• Force USB Boot (19)
• Dip Switch user controllable options - 6 switches (14)
• Dip Switch Boot config control - 4 switches (15)

Vision Mezzanine

The Vision mezzanine board includes the following components:

Camera

• 1x Main camera sensor IMX577 (9)
  • Interface: MIPI
  • Resolution/fps: 4056x3040/60fps
• 1x Tracking camera sensor OV9282 (8)
  • Interface: MIPI
  • Resolution/fps: 1280x800/120fps or 640x480/180fps
• 2x GMSL2 camera inputs (11)

The Qualcomm Robotics RB5 board also supports the following camera sensors:

• Intel Realsense D435i
• MN34906
• ON SEMI AR0231 Sensor