Since we made Erle-Brain we’ve got a lot of feedback on what’s most used and useful for users. With this in mind we are happy to announce we have released a new version of our brain: Erle-Brain 2, a more powerful unit, smaller, faster and cheaper brain for building robots and drones.
Erle-Brain 2 ships with a cost of €199, includes a quad-core Cortex-A7 with all the sensors needed to create copters, rovers, planes or even hexapods. It includes integrated optional 1080 HD 5MP camera, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 3G/4G networks, USB, Ethernet, I2C, HDMI and UART.
The weight of the whole system is 100g and the size is a bit smaller than his predecessor with 96 x 70 x 25mm.
Some specifications regarding the sensors included:
Accelerometers: MEMS digital-output triple-axis accelerometer with a full scale range of ±8g (or alternatively ±16g) and integrated 16-bit ADCs
Magnetometers: MEMS triple-axes 16 bit (15μT/LSB) with a full scale measurement range is ±4800μT
Gyroscopes: MEMS triple-axes with a full-scale range of ±1000 (or alternatively ±2000) °/sec and integrated 16-bit ADCs
Barometers: digital pressure sensor with 10 cm resolution
For those of you interested. Erle-Brain 2 has been built on top of the Raspberry Pi 2. This decision has been made mainly due to its popularity and existing support for this board already. We are looking forward to collaborate with other existing options based on this exact same board
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@Victor ,
in our VR Brain 5 LX we are done a lot of test and i found some iusse on linux OS about the fast bootloading and arm the esc , in your revision of code how many second need for arm the esc and start the application on RPI 2 ? I'm using Embedded Ubuntu actually i'm around 12-14 sec ...
My idea is to investigate other CPU similar to RPI 2 but with nand memory onboard for have max 4 second ... no more for booting the app .. Normally with VR Brain 5 it's up in 0 sec :) So is quite strange wait the booting of linux app , some suggestion about this iusse ?
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Roberto
It's based on APM thereby MAVLink and with regard the GCS, any that support APM (APMPlanner, MissionPlanner, DroidPlanner, Tower, ...).
There's a working APM branch with instructions at http://erlerobotics.com/docs/Artificial_Brains/Erle-Brain_2/Softwar....
Comm protocol? Supported GCS?
Hi Rana,
Thanks for sharing. We are aware and quite like the idea of having several groups pushing the Raspberry Pi 2 (this is actually one of the main reasons why Erle-Brain 2 is based on the Raspberry Pi 2 and not on another board).
When compared to Raspilot, Erle-Brain 2 is a complete Linux autopilot solution instead of a shield. Our experience with the PixHawk Fire Cape actually taught us that many users and drone makers prefer a complete solution instead of a daughter board and that's what we are delivering.
Hi, I do not want to bash your product but have you heard about Raspilot ? its the same thing costing in 65$ without Pi.
Hi Gennadiy,
There's a concentration of interest on the Pi 2 so we decided to move into it a while ago as well. Like raspilot, Navio or VRBrain neuron, Erle-Brain 2 is also based on the Raspberry Pi 2 but while most of the available solutions are shields, Erle-Brain 2 is a complete autopilot solution including case, camera option, ROS official support, vibration damping, and customer support on our forum,
Is it any different from NavIO? Why your device is more expensive?
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