{"id":578068,"date":"2024-03-05T09:04:05","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T14:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therobotreport.com\/?p=578068"},"modified":"2024-03-05T09:29:47","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T14:29:47","slug":"cogniteam-chooses-rti-connext-cloud-robot-communications-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therobotreport.com\/cogniteam-chooses-rti-connext-cloud-robot-communications-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Cogniteam chooses RTI Connext for cloud robot communications, management"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cogniteam provides a unified way to develop, deploy, and manage robot fleets. Source: Cogniteam<\/p><\/div>\n

Real-Time Innovations, or RTI, today announced that Cogniteam has chosen RTI Connext to provide commercially supported communications to its unified cloud-based platform for robot design, development, and testing.<\/p>\n

Developers can use Connext<\/a>, which is based on the Data Distribution Service (DDS) standard, to monitor incoming data in real time from robots to the cloud, said RTI. It promises to improve productivity, as Cogniteam achieved coding translation from the Robot Operating System (ROS) to ROS 2 in one month, compared with the market norm of three to six months, asserted the companies.<\/p>\n

\u201cNew and exciting tools are emerging in robotics aimed at facilitating interconnectivity of systems and components at the edge and in the cloud,” said Ari Yakir, vice president of research and discovery at Cogniteam, in a release<\/a>. \u201cConnext did exactly what we needed it to — from adding functionality between libraries to retrieving critical data from the edge device — speeding up our production timeline and advancing robotic platform development.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Cogniteam needed tailored communications<\/h2>\n

Cogniteam provides a low-code development platform, teleoperation capabilities, and a simulation tool for scaling robot fleets. The company<\/a>, which has offices in Boston and Petach Tikva, Israel, needed a way to achieve communication functionality from ROS<\/a> to ROS 2 and a seamless way to talk between autonomous systems on land, in the air, or on the sea.<\/p>\n

Connext offers both a native DDS and a commercially-supported ROS Middleware Abstraction Interface (RMW) layer, which Cogniteam said  allowed its platform to communicate via the cloud in production and remote settings, providing all of the functionality of getting data and controlling robots.<\/p>\n

The company<\/a> added that it selected Connext so it could be the first to enable support for a wide range of autonomous robots in a unified way via the cloud. RTI\u2019s trusted distribution partner in Israel, Matrix<\/u><\/a>, oversaw the integration process of Connext with Cogniteam\u2019s edge device agent. It also provided on-site technical enablement and support.<\/p>\n

Cogniteam partnered<\/a> with Advantech<\/a> in December 2023 to accelerate the development of autonomous mobile robots (AMRs<\/a>) through remote monitoring and management.<\/p>\n