In 2024, APQ unveiled its new flagship product, the E-Smart IPC series, at the annual Ecosystem Conference—introducing the AK Series Cartridge-style intelligent controller. Upon its release, the AK Series quickly garnered market attention due to its innovative design, specialized industry adaptability, and exceptional expandability, making it a new favorite in the field of intelligent controllers.
The AK Series operates on a 1+1+1 model—consisting of a host machine paired with a primary cartridge, auxiliary cartridge, and soft cartridge—encompassing Intel's three major platforms and Nvidia Jetson. This configuration caters to various CPU processing power requirements across different application scenarios, offering versatility for vision, motion control, robotics, and digitalization applications. APQ has meticulously crafted this industry-leading controller to set a new standard.
A key highlight of the AK Series is its cartridge design, which boasts a wealth of interfaces and remarkable expandability, supporting "3+ platforms, 10+ expansion modules, and up to 3 layers of stacking." This design philosophy enables thousands of expansion card combinations, allowing users to seamlessly switch to entirely new application scenarios by simply changing the cartridge. This convenience underscores the product’s significant advantage in application flexibility, making it ideal for low-speed scenarios such as AGVs, AMRs, cleaning robots, construction robots, unmanned forklifts, and logistics robots, while providing robust AI capabilities for navigation, recognition, and control, as well as strong operational and protective features.