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From Open Robotics
Do you want to spend the summer coding on Gazebo or ROS? Open Robotics has been accepted for GSoC and we are looking for talented students who want to participate as remote interns.
Accepted students will participate in real-world software development, contributing to open source robotics projects and engaging with the global robotics community, all while getting paid.
Check out our GSoC site and don't forget to visit our ideas page, which lists projects that we're interested in. Feel free to ask questions and propose suggestions at gsoc@openrobotics.org. The student application period opens on March 25th and closes April 9th
Get ready for a robotics coding summer!
We're now soliciting sponsors for ROSCon 2019 in Macau!
Please check the prospectus to learn about this year's benefit packages. If you're interested in sponsoring or have any questions about the sponsor program, contact the organizing committee.
We hope to see you at ROSCon 2019!
-- Your friendly neighborhood ROSCon 2019 Organizing Committee
We're happy to announce the ROS 2 release Crystal Clemmys!
Check out our installation instructions and tutorials and give it a try!
We're excited to hear your feedback and the applications that this release will enable!
Our ROS 2 distros, they grow up so fast. With the release of Crystal Clemmys we also bid farewell to Ardent Apalone which will retire with 191 packages, and Crystal is debuting with almost 300 (297 to be precise)!
To get an idea of what's in this release, be sure to read the Crystal release page.
A few features and improvements we would like to highlight in this release:
Crystal Clemmys is the third ROS 2 release and will be supported with bug fixes and platform updates (particularly on rolling dependencies like Windows and MacOS) for one year with support ending in December 2019. While we do aim to keep the API as stable as possible, we can't guarantee 100% API compatibility between releases. Check the features page and ROS 2 roadmap to evaluate whether or not ROS 2 is ready to be used for your application or if you can switch from ROS 1 to ROS 2 as it will depend on the exact feature set and requirements of your use case.
As always, we invite you to try out the new software, give feedback, report bugs, and suggest features (and contribute code!): https://index.ros.org/doc/ros2/Contact
We also invite you to release your ROS 2 packages in Crystal! Here's a tutorial to do so. A huge thanks to all those who've already participated in our pre-release testing and packaging effort.
We would also like to announce the name of the next ROS 2 release scheduled for June 2019:
Dashing Diademata
Your friendly ROS 2 Team
P.S. There's still a couple of weeks left on the T-Shirt campaign.
Looking foward to ROSCon 2018 we're highlighting presentations from last year.
Justin presents a new approach to building web interfaces for ROS applications.
This talk will introduce a set of web components, built on top of Robot Web Tools, that make it easy to build complex, ROS-integrated web applications without writing much code. Using the Polymer library with these components helps to make applications that are accessible and mobile-friendly. We will show how to use these components and show some common web programming patterns. Additionally, we will showcase some complex web applications we have developed with these tools, including a programming by demonstration interface, a web-based version of RViz, and a ROS graph explorer utility.
View the slides here
The first officially licensed local ROSCon event, ROSCon JP 2018, was held in Tokyo, Japan on the 14th of September. ROSCon JP 2018 was held in conjunction with the Open Source Robotics Foundation.
189 people participated on the day (excluding sponsors' invitations and staff). The livestream had a steady 60 to 70 people watching at any one time throughout the day. Thanks to all the participants, ROSCon JP was an exciting day for all. Presentation slides and videos will be published on the website in a few weeks.
The invited talks from Brian Gerkey (Open Robotics) and Nicholas Yeo (ROS-Industrial Asia Pacific), 14 submitted talks, 13 lightning talks, 26 exhibitors' booths, and everything else about the conference was of high quality. Topics of presentation included
a presentation from Panasonic comparing navigation using the navstack with using commercial navigation system for hospital delivery robots;
the use of ROS in space robotics by JAXA;
the application of ROS and Gazebo to a marine robotics challenge (which finished with a surge in donations to the presenters' crowdfunding page to help them attend the next challenge); and
a discussion of how Sony applied ROS to the development of the newest Aibo. (Find out more at ROSCon 2018 in Madrid)
A catered lunch and reception and a popular exhibitors' hall provided many opportunities for participants to mix with each other and make new connections.
ROSCon JP 2018 was sponsored by the following companies and organisations:
Silver: eSOL, GROOVE X, EAMS Lab
Bronze: Honda Research Institute Japan, RT Corporation, Mamezou, INTEC, Robotis, Z Robotix
Friendship: Tokyo Opensource Robotics Kyokai Association
As our first event, we consider ROSCon JP 2018 to have been a massive success and a credit to the Japanese ROS user community.
Looking foward to ROSCon 2018 we're highlighting presentations from last year.
Chris presents a new approach for integrating ROS using Node.js as an alternative to the rosbridge suite.
For years, the RosBridge suite (and it's corresponding javascript library roslibjs) have been the most practical way to integrate ROS and javascript. While this combination works fairly well in light-weight applications or as a prototype solution for pumping ROS topics into a web page, it starts to break down as the demands on the system increase. With the rise in popularity of backend javascript engines, particularly Node.js, relying on RosBridge to connect ROS and javascript code becomes a bottleneck in industrial applications with serious performance requirements. New web technologies (like Electron) also make the prospect of integrating a native ROS client library in Node.js more appealing.
View the slides here
Looking foward to ROSCon 2018 we're highlighting presentations from last year.
Michael presents on how to bring ROS into safety critical systems.
This presentation gives an overview about our "Kontrol" development environment for safety critical controllers using ROS and Gazebo. We first analyze existing standards for safety critical controllers for different applications and present the results of an extensive industry survey which concludes that 70-80% of the development costs are spent during the serial development phase. To overcome this burden, we present our approach of a model-based development environment which significantly reduces this cost. We show how ROS and Gazebo can be integrated into one development tool. Finally, we demonstrate the automatic code generation for ROS and ROS2 nodes using Scilab.
View the slides here
