2 Hardware Installation and Electricity
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The overall design of the SCOUT MINI Lite research and education kit uses the stacking design and the frame is made of sheet metal, a high-definition display screen is installed at the rear part which is convenient for customers to develop and debug. A hollow sheet metal holder is used at the bottom to assemble with the standard aluminum holder of the SCOUT MINI above. The USB -HUB with independent power supply is located at the second layer along with USB to CAN module and G4 lidar. The third layer is mainly composed of computing units and voltage stabilizing modules and the top layer is currently mainly installed with Intel RealSense D435 . Please refer to the following figure for detail.
The Scout MINI Pro share the same basic design with Scout MINI Lite Kit, the difference between each other are the sensors location. The computing unit Nvida AGX Xavier is at the bottom of the holder, the USB-HUB with independent power supply is located at the second layer along with USB to CAN module and Intel RealSense D435 . The third layer is mainly composed of lidar adapter and voltage stabilizing modules, while the top layer is currently mainly installed with VLP 16 lidar . Please refer to the following figure for detail.
SCOUT MINI provides power and communication interfaces for devices and sensors through the aviation expansion interface of the chassis. The SCOUT MINI chassis power expansion interface (maximum power output supports 24V@5A) is powered by the chassis’ battery, without a voltage regulator and voltage regulation module. In order to provide power supply to devices and sensors, the voltage regulator and stabilizer is essential. We chose a 12V@20A voltage stabilizer module. The voltage stabilizer mainly provides power input for 5V voltage stabilizer modules, wireless routers, and USB-HUB. The 5@10A voltage stabilizer module provide power input for EAI-G4 laser Radar and Nvidia Jetson Nano.
The following figure is the external connection of Nvidia Jetson Nano. Nano's network port is connected to the router's network port which is designed for remote desktop control to access and debug, also it is easy to expand other network devices. For the USB expansion, we add a USB-HUB (with additional power supply) to improve the devices expansion capacity. USB-HUB mainly connect with EAI-G4 lidar, Intel RealSenseD435,HD display, etc.
The following figure is the external connection of Nvidia Jetson Nano. Nano's network port is connected to the router's network port which is designed for remote desktop control to access and debug, also it is easy to expand other network devices. For the USB expansion, we add a USB-HUB (with additional power supply) to improve the devices expansion capacity. USB-HUB mainly connect with EAI-G4 lidar, Intel RealSenseD435,HD display, etc.
The following figure is the external connection of Nvidia Jetson Nano. Nano's network port is connected to the router's network port which is designed for remote desktop control to access and debug, also it is easy to expand other network devices. For the USB expansion, we add a USB-HUB (with additional power supply) to improve the devices expansion capacity. USB-HUB mainly connect with Intel RealSenseD435,HD display, etc.
External expansion mainly involves mechanical installation expansion, power supply expansion, and communication expansion. For the power supply expansion, we took this issue into consideration when selecting the power supply voltage regulator in the early stage, so the power supply voltage regulator module has a certain margin. For communication expansion, USB - HUB and wireless gateway are added to the equipment. So it is capable to access more devices.
