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 <
wjwwood@gmail.com> 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,
>
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>
> 2010/12/31 Björn Giesler <bjoern@giesler.de>
>
> 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 <wjwwood@gmail.com>
>> 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.
>> >
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>> > wjwwood@gmail.com
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>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 6:56 AM, Bill Mania <maniabill@yahoo.com>
>> 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^(
>> >
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