[ros-users] Capability of ARM dev board for ROS host

[Damon Kohler]

Hi Kent,

Is it a requirement that all the computation be done on the board?
Offloading processes to beefier CPUs over the network has worked well
for us.

Damon

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 9:06 AM, Kent Williams <k3nt00 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm having a hard time determining if an ARM development board such as the
> beagleboard or even pandaboard are capable of fulfilling the choice for the
> main computer on a current project. I have the beagleboard xm and once you
> get linux and ros up and running, that 512mb of ram doesn't look like it can
> stretch too much further. I've been examining benchmarks of these two boards
> vs single and dual core atoms and they are quite a ways off in performance.
> I mention atoms because I know the netbooks being used out there with ros
> even have a hard time with a mediocre load. What is the extent to which
> you've seen a beagleboard, pandaboard, or the like come to hosting ros and
> doing image processing, localization, and path planning?
>
> Any comments or feedback would be much appreciated!
>
> Thanks,
>
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>
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>
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