Aerial Robotics meeting - Duckiedrone - Nov 20 2024

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Hi all!

Here an announcement for this month’s Aerial Robotics Meeting in 2 weeks( 20th of November). This time we will be having a presentation by Davide Iafrate (@Tuxliri) from Duckietown to talk about the new Duckiedrone!

We will also have roundtable updates about Aerial Robotics in ROS, some highlights from ROSCon and general announcements.

2024-11-20T16:00:00Z→2024-11-20T17:00:00Z
Meeting link: https://meet.google.com/vqa-nwxg-jkt
Presentation: “Introducing the DD24: Duckietown’s latest platform for learning aerial robotics” by Davide Iafrate (@Tuxliri)

https://docs.duckietown.com/daffy/opmanual-dd24/intro.html

Since we are going to monthly meetings now, there is no aerial robotics community group meeting today. See you the 20th!

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Small reminder on the meeting today! In about 2 hours we will hear more about the Duckiedrone DD24. Check the join information in the first post.

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Here is the recording of yesterday’s meeting:

Thanks @Tuxliri about presenting about the Duckiedrone DD24

Here are the slides:

Aerial Robotics WG Meeting Nov 20 2024.pdf (959.9 KB)
Duckietown Sky - Duckiedrone - ROS Aerial meeting - 20241120-compressed.pdf (1.1 MB)

And here are some of the things we discussed with the links:

Announcements:

  • ROSCon Odense Aerial robotics meetup was a great success! Thanks Dronecode Foundation for the Drinks and Pizza
  • Ardupilot conference: @RFRIEDM had a presentation on ROS 2 on Ardupilot (see video here). Ryan if you want you can share the slides underneath here.

Aerial Robotic Landscape updates since Oct 11

  • University of Southern Denmark (SDU):
    • Yearly Summer school at SDU UAS Center (link)
    • MSc Robots Systems Specialization Drone and Autonomous Systems (link)
  • Quadcopter Build and Programming guide (link) contributed by Abdullah
  • Several improvements like link checking and update date plugin. by @TOTON95
    Check out the Aerial Robotics landscape here:

Updates from the Community:

  • @Tejal_Barnwal shared instructions to use Bonxai for 3D planning with a quadcopter (link)
  • @RFRIEDM Shared an web based map display for mavproxy called MAVCesium (link)

Links shared in the chat (not shared above):

Next meeting should be the Wednesday 18th of December. I’ll start a new thread for that for the announcement.