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Erle-Brain v1.1: The most complete Linux autopilot

Posted by Víctor Mayoral on March 31, 2015 at 8:56am

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I’m delighted to introduce Erle-Brain v1.1 as the most complete Linux autopilot:

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Erle-Brain is being adopted by schools, universities and research centers around the world.

The journey of Erle-Brain started back on late 2013 with the BeaglePilot project giving birth of the first APM Linux-based drones and finishing up with the publication: “Towards an Open Source Linux autopilot for drones“.
Much has happened since and the BeagleBone Black was just featured at the Embedded Linux Conference as a great platform for building Linux drones.

 

Our love for Linux drones however goes far beyond making them fly and accomplish autonomous missions. As roboticsts we are already thinking about embedding more intelligence in our flying robots (obstacle avoidance, SLAM, image and speech recognition, …) and for that we are putting a lot of development time into the Robot Operating System (ROS). We are releasing demos such as this one. Expect more to come.

Just a few days ago we decided to launch a crowdfunding campaign: BeagleUAV. Through BeagleUAV, you’ll be able to access all the Erle-Brain for a discounted price of 150 €.

Go ahead and get yourself into Linux drones with the BeagleBone Black and the PixHawk Fire Cape ;).

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  • HyperGuy April 2, 2015 at 1:19am

    A bit more expensive than PixHawk but good to see a Linux based APM.

  • Víctor Mayoral March 31, 2015 at 11:05pm

    @Ravi,

    The BeagleBone Black has a micro HDMI port (so Erle-Brain does) but currently those pins are being used for other purposes. Refer to the PXF schematics. With some work, it might be possible to use those ports.

    @Ali,

    There're Android images for the BeagleBone Black available. Erle-Brain should be able to wear them as well. Never tried it myself but it sounds like a fun project.

  • ali March 31, 2015 at 8:39pm

    Good job! A somewhat not related question: How easy (or hard) is it to port the APM code (that you are running on Ubunto) to Android?

  • Ravi March 31, 2015 at 7:32pm

    so it has video over wi-fi. how would we give input for video (HDMI, H.286, AV)

  • Juan Carlos Hdez March 31, 2015 at 4:13pm

    backed.
    good job.

  • Víctor Mayoral March 31, 2015 at 11:50am

    Lucas and Gary, thanks for the support :)!

    @Lucas, there's a perk in the campaign to get both.

    We got a really interesting result with ROS today. It'll be shared in the coming weeks. Getting more and more excited about the possibilities of these technologies.
    Kind regards,

  • Amilcar Lucas March 31, 2015 at 11:30am

    Hi, I already backed you guys with 145€ (120 PXF, 20 Shipping, 5 tip).

    Is there a way to give you more money and get a BBB as well ?

    Regards,

    Amilcar

  • Gary McCray March 31, 2015 at 10:54am

    Great post Victor :)

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