Thanks everyone for a fantastic first meeting!
We had a successful kick-off of the ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration Working Group where we discussed how we can make ROS 2 faster through FPGAs and GPUs with open technologies, initially focusing on C++ and OpenCL. We registered 27 participants initially and reached more than 30 (I’m being told) during the course of the meeting. This was a first for me in a WG kick-off session. We are very excited and thankful for the interest and the support messages received. Looking forward to continue contributing!
Here’s a summary of the resources discussed:
- Minutes
- ros-acceleration Github organization
- KV260 kit as reference hardware platform
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source code contributed:
- ament_vitis, CMake macros and utilities to include Vitis platform into the ROS 2 build system (ament) and its development flows.
- Xilinx Runtime (XRT), an open-source standardized software interface that facilitates communication between the application code and the accelerated-kernels
- and finally, the video recording the session:
For those of you that don’t have the time to watch the whole piece, see below for a chapter-ed split:
0:00 Introduction
12:25 Objectives, rationale and hardware reference platforms
16:40 Initial hardware acceleration architecture
22:10 Short demonstration
26:44 Community hardware platforms
29:48 Q&A
43:00 Final remarks
We’ll be following up shortly on a number of the topics discussed over the call. Stay tuned for the next meeting and enjoy summer time 
!