How fast should I expect my robot to be able to move when running NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano with Isaac ROS Visual SLAM and Nvblox

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I’ve built a two-wheel balancing robot that is very nimble and fast. The current version is driven via an Xbox controller. I was hoping to add a NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano and 3D camera running Isaac ROS and Nvblox so that it could navigate on its own.

All the demos I’ve seen (example here) show the robot moving about the speed of my robotic vacuum. I haven’t found a single example of something moving faster. Is the Nano capable of navigating faster or would it not be able to keep up and track its position? Are there ways to speed it up?

For example, if you have already generated a map is it faster to compute a path and navigate along that path or is the compute necessary to track your location the same?

I’m new to all this so would appreciate feedback from those who have built a robot and used the stack before. Are my hopes for high performance achievable or will I be limited to vacuum speed?

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Hi @benpeart

Your project is amazing and thank you for your video!

Looking your robot and all Isaac ROS running I’ve the feeling that you don’t have enough power to manage everything at high speed.

Have you check with jetson-stats 4.3.1 if your GPU have enough power to do everything?

Best,
Raffaello