Hi Homer,

Here at the lab we also use atom based netbooks to run ROS on our robots. I
must say we never did image processing, but for the processing requirements
to run the navigation stack at a very low frequency (5Hz) I'd say you'll
have a hard time processing stereo images on the atom.

Hope this helps,

Gonçalo Cabrita
ISR - University of Coimbra
Portugal

On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Konrad Banachowicz <konradb3@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
> We successfully using atom based netbook for small mobile robot, but
> without any image processing. In my experience image processing and
> especially stereo vision require huge computing power. So if you want do
> stereo processing entirely in software you need high-end probably multicore
> CPU.
>
> Pozdrawiam
> Konrad Banachowicz
>
>
> 2010/12/30 Homer Manalo <homer.manalo@roboteknik.com>
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'd like to know what kind of computer are you using for your robots. I
>> would also like to know what are your recommendations for a robot that will
>> make a lot of use of image processing, say two stereo cameras. Are intel
>> atoms sufficient for the job? What about beagleboards? Or the pico ITX from
>> VIA?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Homer
>>
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