Thanks for the insights Damon, much appreciated!


On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:43 AM, Damon Kohler <damonkohler@google.com>wrote:

> I haven't done exactly as you described, but I can say that I easily
> ran into trouble with a dual core laptop by simply using move_base and
> gmapping with laser scanners.
>
> Most of the problems, I believe, come from not being able to process
> incoming data quickly enough to make good movement decisions. Your
> robot may have to move very slowly to get this to work. Or, you'll
> have to use more performant/efficient/limited implementations of
> mapping and navigation.
>
> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 9:38 AM, Kent Williams <k3nt00@gmail.com> wrote:
> > It is our hope to make the robot a standalone unit, and therefore not
> > require any off board infrastructure. I know this is quite a vague
> question,
> > I'm really just looking to see if anyone has hit the wall big time with
> the
> > capabilities of these boards or if there is hope for leaning them down
> > enough and slowing down the update frequencies to get by.  I have been
> > considering to attempt to use a decent android phone I have as the image
> >  sensor and processing resource node using rosjava, since the vision
> > requirements are low. Then possibly the beagleboard or pandaboard would
> be
> > sufficient for hosting the rest.
> >
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