OIS Robotics Platform

The OIS Robotics Platform features a trio of Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) products: ORBexpress® RT, ORBexpress DSP and ORBexpress FPGA, OIS’s high-performance communications middleware products. The OIS Robotics Platform supports a wide variety of hardware architectures commonly used in robotics: general purpose processors (GPPs), digital signal processors (DSPs) and field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). This multiple-device support lets robotics designers develop logic once on a common platform.

• • A family of standards-based CORBA Object Request Brokers (ORBs) which provides a flexible, upgradeable and high-performance communications infrastructure for robotics systems.
  • A complete middleware solution in a very small footprint—which is especially important for power-constrained robots.
  • Support for partial reconfigurability on the FPGA, which simplifies programming while significantly increasing application code reuse. This is critical in sophisticated systems such as automotive assembly plants, which often require field upgradeability of robotics systems.
  • Support for multiple pluggable transports with Quality of Service (QoS), such as TCP/IP, UDP, Shared Memory, Ethernet, PCI, PCI Express and RDMA technologies (e.g, RapidIO™ and INFINIBAND).

The OIS Robotics Platform is available from OIS for a package price. Contact us through phone, email, or our online form to learn more.