Companion Computers - For Drones

But it technically applied for robots

Current State

Auterion undertanding that necesity with "Skynode" family

• https://auterion.com/product/skynode-s/
• https://auterion.com/auterion-announces-new-all-in-one-solution-for-small-unmanned-systems/
• https://militarnyi.com/en/news/ukraine-orders-thousands-of-skynode-modules-for-drone-machine-vision/

This is inside the Skynode https://www.technexion.com/products/system-on-modules/pico/pico-imx8m-mini/

Fully integrated solutions like model-ai.

Thoghts and Future Directions

Arquitecture

CUDA-capable device or not?

Ecosystem and tooling

Physical interface (this is the core of extensibility)

• Jetson family (mid to lower end): 260-pin SO-DIMM edge connector
  • Jetson AGX class: 699-pin Molex Mirror Mezz B2B connector
• CM4
  • module: DF40C-100DP-0.4V
  • carrier: DF40C-100DS-0.4V → 1.5 mm
  • carrier: DF40HC(3.0)-100DS-0.4V → 3.0 mm
• CM5
  • module: 10164228-1001A1RLF
  • carrier: 10164227-1001A1RLF → 1.5 mm
  • carrier: 10164227-1004A1RLF → 4.0 mm

Opennes-level:

• open-source software/BSP
• public hardware schematics/design files
• open-source hardware under a public hardware license