What are the plans for VIM3?

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Hi,

I am a PhD student at NTNU, Norway. In the past year I have been designing and testing an autonomous collision-tolerant drone that we called RFM (Resilient Micro Flyer). Needless to say, the onboard pc is a VIM3-Pro, so far the best off-the-shelf single board pc I found.
The results are impressive for such a tiny board. This is just one example of result: Autonomous subterranean exploration with the RMF aerial robot inside the Hagerbach underground mine - YouTube

The main limitation I found on this board is the limited cpu capabilities to run complex software and the RAM, only limited to 4gb.
Is there any plan to release a VIM3 v2 ? Possibly with increased cpu and ram power?

Thank you in advance

P.

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There is no upgraded SOC yet from Amlogic so I doubt there will be upgrade anytime soon.

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Hi,
Did you using NPU?
You can try use large (maximum 10Gb) swap file on a SSD.
ROS can utilize many VIMs.

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Good to see the VIM3 is powering your your drone :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

The next generation VIM with 8GB RAM is on the way

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pls post updates, very much excited for its release :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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Yes the NPU is impressive, we run in flight object detection at 5hz yolo v3. We only modified the weights and it was good to go

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Why not 16? :wink: ahaha!

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In the case when swap is 2.5 times more than RAM, performance degradation occurs.

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Please share details of the soc, there seem to be no update from amlogic though.

Happy to read this excited news.

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