Thanks for the thoughts Arjun, At the moment I have the headless ubuntu 11.10 on the beagleboard so no X window. I'll just end up testing how many substantial nodes I can get running nicely, but ultimately it's looking like these are just not suited to be the main workhorse just yet. On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 1:03 AM, Arjun Arumbakkam wrote: > Hi Kent, > It depends on what linux distribution you are using on your board. If you > use a full fledged Ubuntu distribution, your processor and memory is going > to be loaded and there will be little room for other processes. > That said, if you use a lightweight Ubuntu distribution such as Lxde with > Lxdm, you could have room for more computation. We've used a Gumstix Overo > board with lxde and lxdm to run a roscore, olsr with two wifi interfaces > and a rosnode (with minor computation) and still found the X interface > quite responsive. It could have handled some image processing as well, but > we ran localization, planning, control and image processing nodes offboard > on a beefy laptop like Damon suggested in his email. The Gumstix Overo uses > an ARM Cortex A8 core with 512 MB, same as the beagleboard. You could go > one up by using just a console image without X. That might give you more > room for image processing, etc. > -Arjun. > > > On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 3:38 AM, Kent Williams 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. >> >> >> -- >> Kent Williams >> >> k3nt00@gmail.com >> (818)203-4394 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > > -- Kent Williams k3nt00@gmail.com (818)203-4394