About the Rover Computer (Orin)

The rover uses a computer called the Nvidia Jetson Orin. It is essentially a really small, fully capable, desktop computer. If you wanted to, you could use it as a PC (please don’t we need it). It was originally designed for AI tasks, but it is more than capable of being our central computer.

Because the Orin is a computer, it runs on an OS. That OS is Ubuntu Linux, but Nvidia’s special flavor of it. But for most things, you can assume it is basically Ubuntu. Keep this in mind as you work with the Orin.

Nvidia Documentation

Nvidia has a talent of writing so much documentation, that is somehow almost useless usually, but you can find the documentation for the computer here: https://developer.nvidia.com/embedded/learn/jetson-agx-orin-devkit-user-guide/index.html.

You will also want to rely on the Nvidia forums: https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/c/agx-autonomous-machines/jetson-embedded-systems/70.

Setup

For information on how to setup, use, and debug the Orin, visit [Using and Setting up the Rover]