Community meeting: Ignition and ROS

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Hi ROS community!

The simulation team at Open Robotics started hosting monthly meetings with the community in order to give visibility into our development process and roadmap, strengthen collaboration with community members outside of Open Robotics, as well as offer a space for anyone to provide feedback.

Next month’s topic will be the integration between Gazebo’s next generation, Ignition Gazebo, and ROS (1 and 2), so we’re cross-posting the announcement here:

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Date: 2020-11-10T23:00:00Z
Place: Google Meet
Event: Calendar event
Topic: Ignition integration with ROS 1 and 2
Agenda: Everyone is welcome to add items to the agenda.

As always, the meeting will be recorded and posted on the community meetings playlist on the GazeboSim YouTube channel.

Be sure to subscribe to the Ignition community calendar to receive invitations the meeting every month.

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Here are some recent posts about Ignition that ROS users may be interested in reading beforehand:

Ignition Gazebo Simulator for Noetic and Foxy

The simulation team at Open Robotics is happy to announce the release of Ignition integrations for ROS Noetic and Foxy! ROS users have easy access to Ignition Citadel, which is Ignition’s first 5-year LTS, to be supported until 2025. [image] Gazebo’s next generation Ignition is the next generation of the Gazebo simulator, with an updated architecture and new features that are aimed at improving your simulation experience. Some of Ignition’s new features are: Plugin-based physics and render…

Ignition Dome Released! T-Shirts for Sale

[image] Get started with these instructions. The simulation team at Open Robotics is happy to announce another major release of Ignition, code named Dome! This is the fourth major release of Ignition, following Citadel, Blueprint and Acropolis. Dome is a short-term release supported until December 2021. Here are a few highlights since Citadel’s release 9 months ago: GUI : Lots of new GUI features and widgets Customizable layout : Customize the graphical interface to your own needs an…

Thoughts on Ignition Gazebo Simulator and ROS2 bridge

First, excellent work from the Ignition Dev Team, and congrats on the new release of Citadel! Reading through the feature comparison between this and Gazebo-classic version 11 and the status of their migration to Ignition Citadel, I noticed the new approach for ROS integration: ROS integration with Ignition will be done primarily via a transport bridge instead of plugins, contained in the ros_ign package. Ignition Robotics ros_ign_bridge provides a network bridge which enables the excha…

See you at the community meeting!

The Ignition Dev Team