Erle-brain, a Linux autopilot powered by ROS

Posted by Víctor Mayoral on December 22, 2014 at 12:30am

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Hi everyone,

I am pleased to announce a Linux autopilot to comes powered by ROS. As shared in the main thread, Erle-brain is sold at 269 € and puts together a BeagleBone Black (rev. C) and the PixHawk Fire Cape in a single package that weights about 75 grams and includes 25+ sensors. The hardware designs are open to anyone that wishes to improve them.

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The autopilot has a 4 GB eMMC flash memory that comes pre-flashed and provides:

  • Linux 3.8 kernel compiled with the PREEMPT option (best results we measured)
  • Debian Wheezy file system
  • ROS Hydromedusa
  • mavros ROS package
  • APM running natively in Linux (and linked with ROS through mavros)
  • preconfigured daemons for launching everything automatically, WiFi dongles support

Refer to http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/erle-brain-an-open-hardware-linux-autopilot for more details.

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Tags: hydromedusa, linux, ros, autopilot
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