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Ultra96 accelerates autonomous robot

Mixed Media - Ultra96 Accelerates Autonomous Robot

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The TurtleBot3 Burger is a popular Robot Operating System (ROS) platform retrofitted with an Ultra96-V2 board, upgrading the capability from the Raspberry Pi board. Using Xilinx SDSoC and Vivado HLS tools, a compute intensive portion of the Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) algorithm is accelerated within Xilinx Programmable Logic and accessed via a ROSstyle abstraction layer for the hardware accelerator.

Key Enabling Features of the Ultra96

  • Xilinx Zynq UltraScale + MPSoc ZU3EG A484
  • 2x USB 3.0, 1x USB 2.0 Type A downstream ports
  • 85mm x 54mm form factor
  • Linaro 96Boards Consumer Edition compatible


Kit Includes

  • Ultra96-V2 development board
  • 16GB MicroSD card + adapter
  • Xilinx design tools voucher

Ultra96 + TURTLEBOT3 Burger


Ultra96 accelerates autonomous robot