Which kind of ultrasound sensor compatible with NVIDIA Jetson Xavier Nx?

Robotics & Edge Computing Jetson Systems Jetson Xavier NX
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I’m looking for a different type of ultrasonic sensor compatible with the NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX for obstacle detection on my robot 🤖

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Hello,

Thanks for visiting the NVIDIA Developer Forums.
To ensure better visibility and support, I’ve moved your post to the Jetson category where it’s more appropriate

Cheers,
Tom

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This isn’t really an answer, but might be useful (I don’t know specific ultrasonic sensors). If a sensor is supported directly from the Linux kernel on a desktop PC (without a third party driver), then probably the same sensor works in a Jetson. The architecture is different, but drivers are generally present in all of the architectures. The main incompatibility comes when you have to get the driver from an external third party vendor; if such is the case, and if the driver is binary, then the vendor would have to build the driver for every architecture. If the driver is in the kernel source itself, then it is almost always going to “just work” when compiled for that architecture.

The above does not necessarily say that the driver is present by default, but if it exists in the source, then compiling and adding this isn’t usually too difficult (just try to get a third party vendor to release a new architecture driver though on closed source, or compatible with a new architecture; this would be the definition of difficult).

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Some other forum users have mentioned ultrasonic sensors with Jetson modules:

Along the lines of the reply from @linuxdev, the first one has a reply with a link to a driver as well.