From high-speed motion planning to real-time control and communication, our technologies help you design energy-efficient, affordable and functionally safe ISO 10218-complaint robots for harsh industrial environments. Build reliable, efficient and safe power stages with our reinforced isolation technology for communication, gate drivers and sensing. Meet your cost and performance targets with our broad portfolio of analog and embedded ICs.

Why choose TI for industrial & collaborative robot systems?

Enable safe & scalable processing
Achieve best-in-class sensing performance
Build systems with confidence

Engineering smarter, safer industrial & collaborative robots

Create compact, efficient and fully-protected servo drive power stage modules

Our analog and embedded processing products help you improve motor control performance and exceed isolation and EMC requirements per IEC standards. Sense voltages and currents with the best signal integrity using our latest delta-sigma modulators in your robot power stage. By easily implementing safety functions, such as Safe Torque Off, you can also meet system-level safety requirements. Boost your motor control design performancexplore and explore breakthrough technologies, such as GaN, to increase your robot power density and efficiency.


Three-phase, 1.25-kW, 200-VAC Small Form Factor GaN Inverter Reference Design for Integrated Drives

This reference design is a three-phase inverter with a continuous power rating of 1.25 kW at 50°C ambient and 550 W at 85°C ambient for driving 200-V AC servo motors.

Reinforced Isolated Phase Current Sense Reference Design with Small Delta Sigma Modulators

This reference design realizes a reinforced isolated 3-phase inverter sub-system using isolated IGBT gate drivers and isolated current/voltage sensors.
Application note

Better signal integrity with isolated Delta-Sigma modulators in motor drives

High-performance servo control is crucial to various industrial manufacturing processes which use motor drives, in applications like computer numerical control (CNC) machining, pick-and-place machines, and industrial robots.

AMC3306M05ACTIVE

±50-mV input, precision current sensing reinforced isolated modulator with integrated DC/DC

ISO6760ACTIVE

6-channel, 6/0, digital isolator with 50Mbps and 1.8V logic support

ISO5852SACTIVE

5.7kVrms, 2.5A/5A single-channel isolated gate driver w/ split output, STO & protection features

Gain precise, safe motion with timely communication

Real-time communication interfaces, such as Fast Serial Interfaces or Ethernet, are required to allow for precise and safe motion and achieve timely communication between all robot systems. Our latest multi-core processors offer the right combination of high-performance and general-purpose processing by combining real-time ARM cores and programmable real-time logic in one package. The Programmable Real-Time Unit Industrial Communication Subsystem (PRU-ICSS) supports most industrial communications protocols and is capable for gigabit speeds and Time Sensitive Networking features. 


White paper

Utilizing Sitara Processors and Microcontrollers for Industry 4.0 Servo Drives (Rev. C)

This article explores how Sitara microcontrollers (MCUs) and processors (MPUs) address servo drive market trends and new requirements of Industry 4.0 and smart factory systems.
Application note

How to Pass IEEE Ethernet Compliance Tests

When a design fails an IEEE Ethernet compliance test, the design layout is often the suspected cause of the failure when sometimes outdated software versions cause failure. Read to learn steps of validating failure scenarios.

Low latency vs. low, deterministic latency Ethernet in real time communications

To get the most out of your system, it is important to understand the difference between low latency and determinism. Watch learn how to minimize latency and its variation enables faster cycle times.

AM2434ACTIVE

Quad-core Arm® Cortex®-R5F-based MCU with industrial communications and security up to 800 MHz

AM6442ACTIVE

Dual-core 64-bit Arm® Cortex®-A53, quad-core Cortex-R5F, PCIe, USB 3.0 and security

AM2612ACTIVE

500MHz dual-core Arm® Cortex®-R5F-based MCU with real-time control, safety and security

Quickly achieve smooth, accurate motion

Real-time control is achieved through constant measurement of motor currents, voltages and position to precisely control the position and speed of the motor. Our real-time control processors help you achieve the right performance, precision and stability so your system is not degraded due to communication, processing and acquisition delays. Modern motor drive systems continue to increase performance requirements, which, in return, increases the requirements for real-time control. Our C2000™ MCUs and Sitara™ processors enable best-in-class motion control, cycle time and path accuracy offering the high processing capabilities required for real-time and safe robot control. 


Application note

How to Synchronize the Timing Between Chips With Programmable Real-Time Unit

This application note describes how to use IEP timer and PRU cores to perform time synchronization between chips.

What is “real-time control” and why do you need it?

Real-time control is the ability of a closed-loop system to gather data, process data and update the system within a defined time window. If the system misses that defined window, stability, precision and efficiency will degrade.
Technical article

How to achieve precise motion control in industrial drives

Many aspects of an industrial drive are important for precise motion control, encompassing all three foundational subsystems of real-time control designs, from sensing to processing to actuation.

Streamline your functional safety system certification

Meet the rigorous requirements of functional safety standards, such as IEC 61508, with our Functional Safety-Complaint sensors and processors for simple, safe and affordable solutions. We offer functional safety-certified engineers, available documentation and resources, such as functional safety Failures In Time (FIT) rate, Failure modes, effects and diagnostic analysis (FMEDA), safety certificates and software diagnostics libraries, to help you streamline the certification process. 


White paper

Optimizing functional safety for industrial robots

This white paper describes functional safety for processors in industrial robots and explores some options to enable functional safety.
Functional safety information

Design Smaller Safe Torque Off (STO) Systems Using 3-Phase Smart Gate Drivers

Learn about our 3-phase smart gate drivers, released as Functional Safety Quality-Managed devices for your next Safe-Torque-Off (STO) system design.

Functional safety at TI

Meet the rigorous requirements of functional safety standards, such as ISO 13849 and IEC 61508 with our analog and embedded processing products. Streamline your functional safety system certification with help from our experts.

Build cost-optimized embedded systems

We offer a broad range of efficient edge-computing performance with the system-on-chip (SoC) architecture of our highly-integrated Arm®-based processors and digital signal processors. With integrated hardware accelerators, analog and connectivity, our devices allow you to meet functional safety and security requirements. Our development platforms, including hardware, open-source software and tools, help you accelerate your time to market.


White paper

Designing an Efficient Edge AI System with Highly Integrated Processors (Rev. A)

This white paper explains the requirements for building an efficient edge artificial intelligence (AI) system and how the TI TDA4 processor family can help optimize performance due to a heterogenous architecture.

TDA4VM processor starter kit for Edge AI vision systems

Bring smart cameras, robots and intelligent machines to life with the TDA4VM processor starter kit. With a fast setup process and an assortment of foundational demos and tutorials.

TDA4VMACTIVE

SoC with Dual Arm® Cortex®-A72, 8 TOPS of AI, C7xDSP, and GPU for vision perception and analytics

DRA821UACTIVE

SoC with Dual Arm® Cortex®-A72, 4 port Ethernet, and 4 lane PCIe for networking and compute

AM625SIPACTIVE

General purpose system in package with Arm® Cortex®-A53 and integrated LPDDR4

Reference design

TÜV SÜD-assessed safe torque off (STO) reference design for industrial drives (IEC 61800-5-2)

This reference design outlines a safe torque off (STO) subsystem for a three-phase inverter with CMOS input isolated IGBT gate drivers. The STO subsystem employs a dual-channel architecture (1oo2) with a hardware fault tolerance of 1 (HFT=1). It is implemented following a de-energize trip concept. (...)
Reference design

EMI/EMC Compliant Industrial Temp Dual Port Gigabit Ethernet PHY Reference Design

This design allows for performance evaluation of two industrial grade DP83867IR Gigabit Ethernet PHYs and Sitara™ host processors with integrated Ethernet MAC and Switch. It was developed to meet industrial requirements for EMI and EMC. The application firmware implements a driver for the (...)

Reference design

48V/16A small form factor three-phase GaN inverter reference design for integrated motor drives</

This reference design demonstrates a high-power density 12V to 60V three-phase power stage using three LMG2100R044 100V, 35A gallium nitride (GaN) half-bridges with integrated GaN FETs, driver and bootstrap diode specifically for motor-integrated servo drives and robotics applications. Accurate (...)

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Technical Resources

Application note

How to Synchronize the Timing Between Chips With Programmable Real-Time Unit

This application note describes how to use IEP timer and PRU cores to perform time synchronization between chips.
Analog Design Journal

Choosing a position sensor in motor control

Learn more about our position sensor solutions for robotics applications.
E-book

E-book: An engineer’s guide to industrial robot designs

Read our e-book to learn about technologies to help you build numerous types of industrial robots with precise motor control, smart sensing, processing at the edge, and real-time communications.