ROS with processor linux sdk on AM3359 Industrial Communications Engine

asked 2021-09-10 01:46:42 -0500

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I have been using the AM3359 ICE board from ti with the PLSDK running via the sd card. I wanted to inspect if this board is good for running ROS inorder to use for robotics applications. Since I've seen that the ROS wiki community offers support for the Beaglebone boards with the similar AM3359 ArmĀ® Cortex-A8 processors ( refer here ). Though the TI Sitara Processor SDK Linux Documentation does contain this ROS and RADAR application (refer here ) but using an AM57xx board, but following the same instructions for the AM335x I am unable to find a ti_mmwave_rospkg ROS driver package as mentioned in the documentation. The GitHub repo (refer here ) for meta ROS does have instructions to make meta-ros image using openembedded platforms such as Yocto, which is supported by Arago project which runs on the Processor Linux SDK. Another method i believe could be to let go of Linux and use RTOS based OS on the board and use micro-ros (refer here).
Now I believe that some these methods might work inorder to get ROS up and running on the platform, but I am skeptical about the issues one might face and the support from the community and the manufacturer for running ROS. Also if someone has experimented with this before it would be really helpful to know which methods do work and which ones do not, and if there is something I am missing and have not come across.

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