Edge AI Working Group

joespeed · 2020-01-03T17:53:38.153Z

@LewisLiuPub loved seeing that work in ROScon Day 2 talk and MoveIt Macau workshop, @mkhansen is working on having Intel contribute to Edge AI WG.

Adrian_Bedford · 2020-01-07T12:39:44.796Z

Hi Katherine,
Imagine many autonomous cars all being driven by NNs. Each of these cars could gather vast data sets from all their cameras, lidars and other sensors and transmit this data back to the manufacturer. This would be a prohibitively huge amount of data, but would be useful for training and improving the next generation of NNs for the cars.

If instead, any small improvements, ie changes in the weightings of the NN, were transmitted back, these could be averaged over all the cars, and then the improved weightings could be sent back to the cars.

All the cars will be learning from each other’s experiences. This is just one example.

c_h_s · 2020-01-20T11:52:56.471Z

Hi Joe,

We here at Fraunhofer IPA are also interested in the topic of how to deploy AI modules to robotics systems running ROS. Recently, we have started a research project that touches the area.
I think this can be one major differenciator of ROS in the future compared to other industrial robot systems.

We should certainly also focus on FPGA and neuromorphic chips as this seems to be an upcoming topic.

Best regards
Christoph

crystaldust · 2020-02-09T11:59:37.301Z

Great proposal, is there some designs on architecture yet? If possible, I would like to make contributions, we have our smart device which accelerate the deep neural network, hope the arch will adapt multiple devices.

joespeed · 2020-02-19T04:21:14.085Z

Sounds lovely, happy to include you

joespeed · 2020-02-20T05:57:45.446Z

Hi Folks, Please pick the times that can work for you next week, thanks!
-Joe

sumandeepb · 2020-02-21T10:28:16.457Z

Hi @joespeed, great initiative. This in lines of something I have been ideating on in the past few months. I have also jotted down some ideas and approaches to attack this type of task. I am relatively a new comer to ROS but have extensive background in a variety of computer vision / machine learning / deep learning algorithm and product development including academic research, working on mine and other’s startups. I definitely want to contribute and be part of this.

I have worked on Intel Movidius, Jetson, Tegra GPU platforms, sensors such as RealSense, embedded boards such as RasberryPI, Tinkerboard etc. Portability and reusability of implementations and compute hardware / sensor support for widely varying hardware platforms has been a common challenge I have faced and continue to do so. Anything I can do to help the greater community and help speed up the overall pace of work in this domain is very much my intent.

I am currently working on Robotics Perception Problems at Rapyuta Robotics, Tokyo. We are a cloud robotics platform based on ROS. Kindly have a look at my profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/sumandeep-banerjee-1436a17/

joespeed · 2020-02-22T14:50:35.820Z

Edge AI WG kick off will be 2020-02-27T14:00:00Z. Excited to form a plan together and make ROS better!

Here is the work in progress agenda, please add your interest, agenda items, what you’d like to do. If long, please give brief description and link(s) to more details.

Please join the Edge AI WG (thanks Tully!) to receive the meeting invite. I’ll assume Zoom is OK a’la Real-Time WG, right? It will include a dial-in option but quality is best with Internet audio + headset. Here are two headsets with great mics:

$28 Mpow HC6 USB + 3.5mm, tight if big headed, isolates your ears from ambient noise
$42 Sennheiser SC 60 USB used for years, is quite good

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gbiggs · 2020-02-25T06:05:09.885Z

Don’t forget to add the meeting to the ROS events calendar so we don’t miss it!

joespeed · 2020-02-25T22:59:54.744Z

@gbiggs added to ROS events calendar for 2020-02-27T14:00:00Z

more info about WG here https://discourse.ros.org/t/proposed-edge-ai-wg/12011

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joespeed · 2020-02-27T10:21:30.217Z

@boba Ultra96? Cool! That’ll make @YangZ and @sgermanserrano very happy Excited to work with you.

joespeed · 2020-03-09T05:08:30.274Z

next Edge AI WG call is 2020-03-12T14:00:00Z details are in ROS events calendar.

Zoom conference, use Internet audio and a headset for best results https://zoom.us/j/9891014875

Agenda is here

please contribute to list of packages using ML https://discourse.ros.org/t/packages-using-ml
(yes, we discussed making the list in GitHub instead, but this was easiest to get started)

joespeed · 2020-03-26T21:06:43.637Z

ROS 2 Edge AI WG Online Meeting 3 - Thursday March 26th 03:00PM PST (UTC-8) Next Generation ROS

3rd Edge AI WG meeting is 2020-03-26T22:00:00Z (UTC), details are in ROS events calendar. Zoom conference, use Internet audio and a headset for best results https://zoom.us/j/9891014875 If you must use phone, dial-in numbers are in the meeting invite. Agenda and meeting minutes are here please contribute to the list of packages that use ML ROS 2 packages using ML (yes, we discussed making the list in GitHub but this was easier to get started) attn @smac @gbiggs @Aaron_Blasdel @hyang5 @Lewi…

smac · 2020-04-07T19:47:12.859Z

Another thing to add to your list: https://github.com/mlherd/donttouchyourface from @mlherd. Not robotics per-say but a good tutorial view

LewisLiuPub · 2020-04-09T02:47:22.058Z

As to ROS2 cv_bridge, I have discussed with its maintainer (Ethan Gao), and tested the guideline, it works and fits the latest ROS2 system. It likely needn’t update for the general use.

Furthermore, I updated its code to support OpenCV 4.x and submitted one PR, which is under code review now.

ipa-hsd · 2020-05-22T08:31:20.697Z

I am quite new to the topic and would like to lurk around

joespeed · 2020-06-18T19:50:37.154Z

Cancelled this week. We need more responses to the ROS users ML survey so we can map out next steps! Please promote the survey, thank you!

ROS ML survey
https://twitter.com/OpenRoboticsOrg/status/1266050022962913281

updated Edge AI WG agenda and meeting minutes to have information about how to join the meeting invites.

RahulRavishankar · 2020-07-28T06:26:20.750Z

Hi everyone,
I’m a beginner in ROS and I’m interested in contributing to this. Can someone guide me through?

Katherine_Scott · 2020-07-28T16:31:19.458Z

The meetings are public. Just show up. There is usually a post prior to the meeting. Most meetings end up on the ROS events Calendar.

Behnood_Farshbaf · 2022-05-12T14:41:36.534Z

Hi everyone,
does anybody know why Edge AI WG agenda and meeting minutes are not accessible any more?
Is there any publicly available archive from videos or meeting notes?