Qualcomm® Robotics RB5 Development Kit
Based on the Qualcomm® QRB5165 Robotics SoC, the Qualcomm® Robotics RB5 Development kit contains a robotics-focused development board and compliant with the 96Boards open hardware specification which supports a broad range of mezzanine-board expansions for rapid prototyping.
- Contains advanced robotics platform Qualcomm® QRB5165 processor.
- Supports widely used Linux based distributions for robotics applications.
- Supports multiple SDKs and tools, including Qualcomm® Neural Processing SDK for AI, Qualcomm® Robotics Vision SDK, Qualcomm® Computer Vision SDK, Qualcomm® Hexagon™ DSP SDK, Robotics Operating System (ROS) 2, and multiple Linux distributions.
- Comprehensive set of demo applications and tutorials to accelerate development of robotics applications.
- Compliants with the 96Board, support for sensors such as multiple cameras, depth sensing solution, GMSL sensor, Ultrasonic Time-of-Flight Sensor with Extended Range, multi-mic and additional sensors like IMU, pressure sensor, magnetometer etc.
- Multiple interfaces and I/Os which can connect multiple sensors.
Applications:
Qualcomm® Robotics RB5 Development Kit
The world's first 5G and AI-enabled robotics platform
Qualcomm® Robotics RB5 Development Kit
Unboxing Video
The Qualcomm® Robotics RB5 platform is the most innovative platform bringing together Qualcomm Technologies broad expertise in 5G and AI to empower developers and manufacturers to create the next generation of high-compute, low-power robots and drones for the consumer, enterprise, industrial and professional service sectors – and the comprehensive Qualcomm Robotics RB5 Development Kit helps ensure that developers have the customization and flexibility they need to make their visions a commercial reality. With 4G and 5G connectivity speeds via a companion module, the Qualcomm Robotics RB5 platform helps pave the way for the proliferation of 5G in robotics and intelligent systems.
The Qualcomm Robotics RB5 Platform supports the development of smart, power-efficient and cost-effective robots by combining high-performance heterogeneous compute, Qualcomm® Artificial Intelligence (AI) Engine for on-device machine learning, computer vision, vault-like security, multimedia, Wi-Fi and cellular connectivity solutions to help solve common robotics challenges.
Robotics RB5 Development Kit Applications
Service Robot
Industrial Robot/Control
Automated Guided Vehicle
Self-driving Vehicle for logistics
Consumption/Entertainment Robot
Industrial Drone
Robotics RB5 Development Kit Highlights
Advance Imaging capability
Gigapixel speed ISP powered by top of the line Qualcomm® Spectra™ 480 ISP with ability to process 2 Gigapixels per second. This Gigapixel speed delivers new camera features including 8K video recording, 7 camera concurrency, capture 200-megapixel photos, and simultaneously capture 4K HDR video and 64 MP (with zero shutter lag) photos.
On-device intelligence powered by Qualcomm Artificial Intelligence (AI) Engine
The Qualcomm Robotics RB5 Platform supports the leading 5th generation Qualcomm AI Engine with the brand-new Qualcomm Hexagon™ Tensor Accelerator, pushing 15 trillion operations per second(TOPS) with maximum efficiency to run complex AI and deep learning workloads at the Edge.
Advanced connectivity
- Qualcomm® FastConnect™ 6800 Subsystem with Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax), 802.11ac Wave 2, 802.11a/b/g/n.
- Support for 5G including 5G mmWave and sub-6 GHz based of Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ X55 5G Modem-RF System via a companion module. Using 5G technology mission critical and wide scale deployments with low end-to-end latency is possible.
Heterogenous computing with efficient power budgets
The Qualcomm Robotics RB5 platform provides powerful heterogeneous computing capabilities using the octa core Qualcomm® Kryo™ 585 CPU, powerful Qualcomm® Adreno™ 650 GPU, multiple DSPs (compute, audio, and sensor) and ISPs. The Qualcomm Robotics RB5 Platform is designed to support large industrial and enterprise robots as well as small battery-operated robots with challenging power and thermal dissipation requirements.
Flexible design options for commercialization
In addition to a feature packed development kit, the platform offers a range of solutions for commercialization from off-the-shelf System-on-Module (SoM) solutions to speed commercialization, to the flexibility for chip-on-board designs for cost-optimization at scale.
Advance Security
Qualcomm® Secure Processing Unit (SPU) offers vault-like security providing Secure Boot, Hardware root of trust , cryptographic accelerators, Qualcomm® Trusted Execution Environment and camera security. Qualcomm® Crypto Engine Core is FIPS 140-2 certified.
High Resolution depth sensing
Robust depth sensing solution infused with an inertial measurement unit (IMU) using depth camera.
Tracking Camera
Perception and Navigation using Tracking Camera Sensor module to do visual simultaneous localization and mapping (vSLAM).
Engine for Video Analytics
Hardware acceleration for advance computer vision applications using the dedicated computer vision hardware block EVA (Engine for Video Analytics). EVA provides enhancements for CV applications with reduced latencies for real time image processing decisions under decreased power for demanding budgets freeing up the DSP, GPU, and CPU capacity for other critical AI applications.
Fast Time to commercialization
In addition to a feature packed software development tools and solutions, the platform offers solutions for commercialization from off-the-shelf System-on-Module (SoM) solutions to speed commercialization, to the flexibility for chip-on-board designs for cost-optimization at scale.
Qualcomm® Sensing Hub
Qualcomm® Sensing Hub delivers scalable sensor framework at ultra low power supporting multiple sensors and 3rd party algorithms.
Comprehensive development kit
The kit includes the robotics-focused development board, compliant with the 96Boards open hardware specification for supporting a broad range of mezzanine-board expansions and range of sensor support like camera sensor, depth camera, time-of-flight, multi-mic support, GMSL sensor, Ultrasonic Time-of-Flight Sensor with Extended Range and support for additional sensors like IMU, pressure sensor etc.
Compatible With
Specifications of the Qualcomm® Robotics RB5 Development Kit
| Component | Qualcomm® Robotics RB5 Development Kit | |
| SOM Platform | Qualcomm® QRB5165 Qualcomm® Kryo™ 585 Qualcomm® Adreno™ 650 GPU, Adreno™ 665 VPU, Adreno™ 995 DPU Qualcomm® Hexagon™ DSP with quad HVX Qualcomm® Spectra™ 480 image processing |
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| RAM | 8GB, LPDDR5 (POP) | |
| Storage | 128 GB UFS3.1 Onboard Storage 1 x MicroSD Card Slot |
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| Ethernet | 1 x 1GbE Ethernet | |
| Wireless | WLAN 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax 2.4/5GHz 2x2 MIMO On-Board WLAN Antennas |
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| USB | 1 x USB 2.0 Micro B (Debug only) 1 x USB 3.0 Type C (OTG Mode) 2 x USB 3.0 Type A (Host Mode Only) |
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| Display | 1 x HDMI 1.4 (Type A - full) on Board Connector | |
| Audio | 2 x Class-D on Board Speaker Amplifier, WSA8810 1 x on Board PDM MIC on Mainboard, 4 x on Board PDM MIC on NAV MEZZ |
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| Sensor | Accelerometer + Gyro Sensor (TDK ICM-42688/ ICM-42688-P) Barometric Pressure | |
| Camera | Vision kit | IMX577 l * (only support in Qualcomm® Robotics RB5 Vision Kit.) GMSL l * OV9282 l * (only support in Qualcomm® Robotics RB5 Vision Kit.) |
| Accessories | Nuvoton® (ToF) – Sensor[MN34906] Intel® RealSense (D435i) |
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| Expansion interfaces | Expansion connectors: HS1:1 x 60 pin high-speed connector (SDC I/F, 1 x 4L MIPI DSI, USB 2.0, CCI I2C x2, 2L+4L-MIPI CSI) HS2:1 x 60 pin high-speed connector (4L-MIPI CSI x 2, SPI x 1, PCIe 3.0 gen3 1L, USB 3.0 x1, GPIO x 8) HS3:1 x 60 pin high-speed connector (4L-MIPI CSI x 2, 4L-MIPI CSI x1(plus 2L CSI in HS1), RF CLK x 2, 2L-PCIe 3.0 x 1, 2L-PCIe 3.0 x 1(plus PCIe 1L in HS2), 4L-MIPI DSI x 1) LS1:1 x 40 pin low-speed connector (UART x 2, SPI, I2S/PCM, I2C x 2, GPIO x 12, DC powers) LS2:1 x 46 pin low-speed connector (Speaker x 2, DMIC I/F x 3, CAN, I2S, GPIOs, PWM, ADC, I2C, DC powers) LS3:1 x 46 pin low-Speed connector (SPI x 2, SSC I2C, sensor interrupt x 5, GPIOs, RTC clock, DC powers) |
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| LED | 7 x LED Indicators 4 x User Controllable 2 x For radios (WLAN activity) 1 x Power indicator |
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| Buttons | Power Volume Up/Down Force USB Boot Dip Switch x 2 (6pin+4pin) |
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| Power source | 12 V @2.5A adapter with a DC plug inner diameter 1.75mm and outer diameter 4.75mm | |
| Size | 85 mm x 54 mm meets the 96boards Hardware Specifications | |
* only support in Qualcomm® Robotics RB5 Vision Kit.
Attention Please：Please Download SDK Manager to install OS for the first time. For detail information, please contact the service team: service@thundercomm.com
| Type | Category | Document Name | Update Date |
| Public Documents | Hardware | Quick Start Guide | - |
| Depth Camera Hardware User Guide: 1.D435i Datasheet 2.Video Tutorials | - | ||
| Nuvoton TOF KHKT001 Hardware User Guide | |||
| Qualcomm® Robotics RB5 Platform Hardware Reference Guide | - | ||
| Software | Qualcomm®_Robotics RB5 software reference manual | - | |
| Private Documents | Get the Private Documents > | ||
Everything You Need to Generate System Image
RB5 SDK Manager provides an end-to-end image generation/downloading solution for developers to work with RB5 devices.
Highlights
• Generate system image on local PC
• Version control of official image releases
• Flash full build into RB5 device
• Designed for developers
System Requirements
• Host OS:
Ubuntu Desktop 18.04 for RB5LU1.0 and RB5LE1.0
Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 for RB5LU2.0
• Alternative:
Ubuntu 18.04 on Docker for RB5LU1.0 and RB5LE1.0
Ubuntu 20.04 on Docker for RB5LU2.0
NOTE： Ubuntu under libvirt KVM/QEMU is not supported
What’s in RB5 SDK Manager
• SDK Manager debian package
• README (User guide)
• Dockerfile_18.04 for generating Ubuntu 18.04 docker image
• Dockerfile_20.04 for generating Ubuntu 20.04 docker image
Release Note for Updated Image:
| Release note for LE1.0 image | Release note for LE2.0 image | Release note for LU1.0 image | Release note for LU2.0 image |
| QRB5165.LE.1.0-230113: 1.Based on Qualcomm release r00017.6 2.Compatible with gmsl chip(MAX9296AGTM/V+) -------------------- QRB5165.LE.1.0-220721: 1.Based on Qualcomm release r00017.6 2.Reference resolution to achieve Rol-based encoding through manual setting 3.Reference resolution to achieve Rol-based encoding through ML 4.RDI offline mode with ParseStats+3HDR 5.IMX586 sensor support 6.IMX686 sensor support with AF 7.7-camera concurrency -------------------- QRB5165.LE.1.0-210805: 1. Based on Qualcomm release r00011.2 2. Enable Dynamic Kernel Module feature |
QRB5165.LE.2.0-231113： 1.Based on Qualcomm release r1.0_00005.1 |
QRB5165.1.0.0.0.012.1_r003006.2_debug(perf): 1.Based on Qualcomm release r00012.1 2.Compatible with gmsl chip(MAX9296AGTM/V+) -------------------- QRB5165.1.0.0.0.012.1_Post-CS5.r003006_debug: 1. Based on Qualcomm release r00012.1 2. Enable 5G support on T55 3. Improve ethernet throughput 4. Debug mode with debug logs enabled -------------------- QRB5165.1.0.0.0.012.1_Post-CS5.r003006_perf: 1. Based on Qualcomm release r00012.1 2. Enable 5G support on T55 3. Improve ethernet throughput 4. Performance mode with debug log disabled -------------------- QRB5165.UBUN.1.0.0.0.009.1_r003005: 1. Based on Qualcomm release r00009.1 2. Enable 5G Module for Japan&Korea 3. Enable PWM Fan |
QRB5165.LU2.0_20240603.2127_debug: 1.Based on Qualcomm release r00030.1 2.The image contains signature files, making it convenient for users to sign and load drivers 3.Enable qtimlsnpe GStreamer plug-in 4.Fix GMSL doesn't work issue when connecting with a single GMSL camera -------------------- QRB5165.LU2.0_20231103.090618_debug： 1.Based on Qualcomm release r00023.1 2.The image contains signature files, making it convenient for users to sign and load drivers. 3.Add gstreamer packages to ensure successful compilation of gstreamer applications. -------------------- QRB5165.LU2.0_20230808.1511_debug： 1.Based on Qualcomm release r00023.1 -------------------- QRB5165.LU2.0_20230602.1438_debug_for_RB5N： 1.Based on Qualcomm release r00018.1 2.Adapt to RB5N(RB5 Non-pop product) -------------------- QRB5165.LU2.0_20230401.2242_debug： 1.Based on Qualcomm release r00016.1 |
| Notes: please refer to Qualcomm official release notes for complete support lists of QC releases | |||
Release Note for SDK Manager
- Support for RB5 Gen 2
- Support for RB3 Gen2
- Support for C6490
- Support for RB5 LE2.0
- Optimize the product selection interface
- Support for RB5N Non-pop
- Update README_Linux.txt
- Update README_Windows.txt
- Support for RB5 LU2.0
- Support for RB1
- Support for RB2
- Support for RB2
- Support for RB6 Non-pop
- Enable LE SDK toolchain download
- Commands to download LE releases
- Update README
- Modify flash method
- Update README
- Update README
- Update README
- Add debug message on flashing
- Minor fixes
- Add debug message on flashing
- Minor fixes
- User credential check
- Dynamic image version control
- Enable system image repack
- Enable full build flash on Ubuntu
- Dynamic image version control
- Enable system image repack
- Enable full build flash on Ubuntu
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Qualcomm® Robotics RB5 Core Kit
Package List:
Mainboard + Qualcomm QRB5165 SOM + power supply + USB cable
$545
Qualcomm® Robotics RB5 Vision Kit
Package List:
Qualcomm® Robotics RB5 Core Kit + Vision mezzanine with tracking & main camera + Heatsink
$795
Qualcomm® Robotics RB5N Vision Kit
Package List:
Mainboard + Qualcomm C5165N SOM + power supply + USB cable + Vision mezzanine with tracking & main camera + Heatsink with fan
$1199
Qualcomm® Robotics RB5 Development Kit:
TDK Mezzanine Board
The TDK Mezzanine Board includes all the latest technologies offerings from TDK focused on the Robotics industry. The TDK Mezzanine combines the market leading performance of the ICM-42688-P IMU with the World’s Highest Performing Digital Microphone (T5818) and TDK’s Ultrasonic Time-of-Flight (ToF) range finder (CH-101 and CH-201). These sensors are accompanied by TDK’s Motor Driver (HVC4420F-B1), Barometric Pressure (ICP-10111), and TDK’s newest industrial grade IMU Module, the IIM-46230. The TDK Mezzanine is the perfect complement to the RB5 platform and provides all the sensor data needed to help fast track development of next generation robotics.
Note: TDK Mezzanine Board require RB5 platform since it cannot work alone.
Note: TDK Mezzanine Board require RB5 platform since it cannot work alone.
Package List:
TDK Mezzanine Board + Bracket
$249
Nuvoton TOF module KHKT001 for Qualcomm® Robotics RB5 Development Kit
The KHKT001 is a state-of-the-art 3D camera module that utilizes the VGA ToF sensor P/N KM34906 from Nuvoton. It is ideal for creating 3D sensing solutions for short to middle range applications. With a small form-factor and light weight, it can be seamlessly integrated to robotics platforms targeted for consumer and industrial segments.
$281
IMX577 Camera Module
12MP Mipi camera module, FOV：120° （D）110°（H）75°（V）
Package List:
1 x IMX 577 camera module, 1 x FPC
$164
