I assume by asking this question you want something cheap If size and battery power isnt an issue you could just use a desktop m/b with a decent processor On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 3:11 AM, William Woodall wrote: > We have used the Zotac ION boards as well and we've had good success, I > just suggested the fit-pc2 because it uses less power, is inclosed, and is > smaller. We had a few projects that demanded those things over processing > power. > > We used the > http://www.zotacusa.com/zotac-ionitx-a-u-atom-n330-1-6ghz-dual-core-mini-itx-intel-motherboard.html on > our autonomous lawnmower competition and we were running the robotpose_ekf @ > ~30Hz and the entire move_base system at 20Hz and a custom vision algorithm > at ~10Hz that involved a birds eye transform, several filters, a pattern > matching step, and at least one hough transform and sometimes two. We ran > fairly well, though we had some performance problems from time to time and > ultimately for next years entry we have upgraded to a full on core-i7 system > because size and power is not a concern for us on the lawnmower. > > Hope that gives you an idea of what the Zotac is capable of, > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > William Woodall > Graduate Software Engineering > Auburn University > w@auburn.edu > wjwwood@gmail.com > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > 2010/12/31 Björn Giesler > > Hi, >> >> I bought the PC for my robot a couple of months ago. I looked at the >> fit-pc2, which looked interesting, but ultimately I settled on this box: >> >> http://www.zotac.com/pdbrochures/ZBOX/ZBOX-HD-ID11_v1.pdf >> >> Main reason was that in addition to the Atom 550, it has an NVIDIA Ion >> graphics chip, which is supported by CUDA and offers a bit of extra >> performance for image processing. E.g. there are ports of SIFT/SURF feature >> detectors, Haar cascades and optical flow algorithms for CUDA. You can't use >> any of them directly on the Ion because they are mostly written for NVIDIA's >> big iron, but they should be easily portable. Not that I've tried yet. >> >> Zotac even has barebone motherboards with the Atom 550 / ION combination >> that take 12V from a power supply. I think this is currently one of the >> cheapest and most powerful solutions in this segment. >> >> Regards, >> Björn >> >> Am 31.12.2010 um 07:17 schrieb Homer Manalo: >> >> > Thanks for the infos. The fit-pc2 looks very interesting, how would you >> compare it with this: >> http://www.pcx.com.ph/index.php/intel-blkd510mo-w-intel-atom-dc.html in >> terms of image processing capabilities? >> > >> > On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 4:13 AM, William Woodall >> wrote: >> > If you are looking for a small, low power x86 type computer you should >> checkout the fit-pc2. We've had good success with these computers. >> > >> > -- >> > >> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> > William Woodall >> > Graduate Software Engineering >> > Auburn University >> > w@auburn.edu >> > wjwwood@gmail.com >> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> > >> > >> > >> > On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 6:56 AM, Bill Mania >> wrote: >> > Homer, >> > >> > On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 06:24:22PM +0800, Homer Manalo wrote: >> > > 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? >> > >> > I'm in Chicago and building a hobby robot. I'm currently using an >> > old Dell notebook computer (with the display removed) and an AVR >> > microcontroller. I plan to have a single webcam, two motor >> > controllers, two ultrasonic rangefinders, a gyroscope and a GPS. >> > >> > So far, I seem to have sufficient computing capacity, but the >> > whole thing is a bit heavy. 8^( >> > >> > -- >> > Bill Mania /'mæ ɲə/ >> > dum vivimus, vivamus! >> > _______________________________________________ >> > ros-users mailing list >> > ros-users@code.ros.org >> > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > ros-users mailing list >> > ros-users@code.ros.org >> > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > ros-users mailing list >> > ros-users@code.ros.org >> > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users >> >> -- >> Björn Giesler >> bjoern@giesler.de >> Verschlüssel Deine Emails -- oder schreibst Du Deine Briefe außen auf den >> Umschlag? >> Meinen Schlüssel findest Du auf >> http://giesler.biz/~bjoern/downloads/bg.asc -- schick mir Deinen! >> Mehr Informationen findest Du auf http://www.gnupg.org/index.de.html >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ros-users mailing list >> ros-users@code.ros.org >> https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users >> > > > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@code.ros.org > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users > > -- Chris Aluminium Replacement Parts @arpartsau