Anyone know of any production grade robots using ODrive and what they’re using instead of Arduinos/Rasberry Pis as a driver?
Hi! We have lots of customers using ODrives in high volume industrial applications, across nearly any sector you can think of!
Usually people will design custom PCBs with their microcontroller of choice – I personally like STM32s, but there’s a lot of options out there. For more powerful computers, I see a lot of Jetson products (e.g. Jetson Nano, Jetson Orin, etc), and some Intel NUCs – that being said, the new Raspberry Pis (4 and 5) are quite powerful, and there’s a lot of those being used for production applications.
Most customers will choose to use CAN from their main computer, and then use a smaller microcontroller for things like data acquisition, sensors, etc.
And there’s also nothing wrong with just using Arduinos if those work well for your application! The new Uno R4 is pretty good, and the Teensy 4 is insanely powerful – they’re just a bit more expensive than a home-rolled solution, at larger quantities.
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