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.

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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.

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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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