Erle-Brain (discontinued)

Erle-brain

ROS Software Maintainer: Erle Robotics

Overview

Erle-brain is a Linux-based autopilot for making drones. It consists of a BeagleBone Black and a PixHawk Fire cape that put together conform a 1GHz Cortex-A8 embedded computer that has 29 sensors and many interfacing possibilities. Erle-brain comes with a Debian image flashed, it used the APM autopilot and has ROS Hydromedusa preinstalled.

The flight software and ROS at Erle-brain are interfaced using the mavros ROS package.

Software characteristics

  • Linux 3.8 kernel compiled with the PREEMPT option (other kernels available)
  • Debian Wheezy file system
  • ROS Hydromedusa
  • mavros ROS package
  • APM running natively in Linux (and linked with ROS through mavros)

Hardware characteristics

  • 29 sensors
  • CPU: 1 GHz ARM Cortex-A8
  • GPU: PowerVR SGX530
  • RAM Memory: 512 MB DDR3
  • Flash memory: 4 GB eMMC
  • microSD slot, USB 2.0 type A host port, 10/100 Ethernet, mini-USB 2.0 client port, 2x UARTs, 1x ADC connector, 1x CAN, 3x I2C, 1x Buzzer out, 1x Safety switch, 12x PWM output channels, 1 PPM/S.Bus in, 1x Power brick and 1x Battery backup (1 LiPo cell)

Installation

ROS Hydromedusa comes preinstalled in the Erle-brain, the flight computer contained in Erle-copter.

ROS Packages

Documentation

Erle-Rover

Erle-Copter

Erle-Brain

Erle-Spider

PXFmini autopilot shield

Erle Robotics maintains a Documentation that mean to instruct how to use their technology.

A video series about how to code autonomous behaviors for drones with this technology is available at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL39WpgKDjDfVfiNVG47DBi93wsh2XHKVO.

Check out Erle Robotics official youtube channel to watch work done using ROS.

Getting Help

Post in our forum at http://forum.erlerobotics.com/.

Purchase

Erle-Brain version 1 is discontinued. The new version Erle-Brain 2 is available in the Erle Robotics store.

Wiki: Robots/Erle-brain (last edited 2016-04-25 14:10:25 by inigomuguruza)