Hardware Acceleration WG, meeting #11

[vmayoral]

Hey all,

After a good summer break, I’m happy to call for the 11th Hardware Acceleration Working Group meeting to be held on 2022-09-29T16:00:00Z (your browser’s time). In case you missed past meetings, here’s the ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration Working Group list with past recordings the WG is keeping. As for other working group resources, find them below or in the WG community repo:

ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration Working Group (HAWG) resources

• Objective: Drive creation, maintenance and testing of acceleration kernels on top of open standards (C++ and OpenCL) for optimized ROS 2 and Gazebo interactions over different compute substrates (including FPGAs, GPUs and ASICs).
• Reference hardware platform: Kria K26 Adaptive SOM
• Meetings invite group: ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration WG Google Group
• Instant messaging: Matrix community (Matrix is an open network for secure, decentralized communication).
• Backlog management: DEPRECATED (use official backlog): Phase 1: tools, examples, benchmarking and first demonstrators · GitHub
• Github organization: ros-acceleration
• Meeting minutes: HAWG minutes
• Discourse tag: wg-acceleration
• Previous meetings:
  • ROS 2 Hardware Accelerating WG, meeting #1
  • ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration WG, meeting #2
  • ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration WG, meeting #3
  • ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration WG, meeting #4
  • ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration WG, meeting #5
  • ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration WG, meeting #6
  • ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration WG, meeting #7
  • ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration WG, meeting #8
  • ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration WG, meeting #9
  • ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration WG, meeting #10

In the last meeting we had 207 attendees so expect the upcoming gathering to be packed . We have exciting updates coming up: a) Robotic Processing Unit updates and release, b) Hardware acceleration in ROS 2 and Gazebo community survey updates and release schedule, c) REP-2008 updates, d) ROSCon and IROS hardware acceleration talks and e) a new WG subproject (roscore-v) that will design an open source software and hardware ROS 2 microcontroller unit (MCU) powered by RISC-V.

The meeting is scheduled to be 60 minutes. Coordinates for the meeting below:

• Time: 2022-09-29T16:00:00Z
• Duration: 60 minutes
• Coordinates: https://meet.google.com/nqg-gmyq-oek
  • LinkedIn event
• Preliminary agenda:
  1. Welcome and newcomers intro
  2. Old business and admin
     • 2.1 Robotic Processing Unit exciting updates and release!
     • 2.2 Hardware acceleration in ROS 2 and Gazebo survey updates and release schedule
     • 2.3 REP-2008 status and updates after discussion with TSC
  3. Progress review and new business
     • 3.1 ROSCon 2022 and IROS 2022 Hardware Acceleration Talks
     • 3.2 new subproject: Robotics MCU, an open source software and hardware ROS 2 microcontroller unit (MCU) powered by RISC-V
     • 3.3 ROS Robotics Companies list
     • 3.4 (other business, if any and time allows)
  4. No guest talk this time (too many topics to cover)
  5. Q&A

[vmayoral]

The upcoming meeting has already over 200 attendees registered. If you’re looking to learn about Hardware Acceleration, have a look at REP-2008 and join us in the meeting.

[vmayoral]

Meeting’s happening tomorrow 2022-09-29T16:00:00Z (your browser’s time). There’re 325 attendees registered. Join us!

[vmayoral]

A very well attended meeting (will need to scale soon our Google Meet capabilities )!

00:00 Welcome
03:02 Robotic Processing Unit
10:48 Hardware acceleration in ROS 2 and Gazebo survey
17:40 REP-2008 status and updates after discussion with TSC
23:34 ROSCon 2022 and IROS 2022 Hardware Acceleration Talks
25:52 new subproject: Robotics MCU, an open source software and hardware ROS 2 microcontroller unit (MCU) powered by RISC-V
40:06 ROS Robotics Companies list
42:00 Q&A

Minutes | LinkedIn event

[lonebots]

It was my first session with the H/W Acceleration WG, and was a great one indeed. Looking forward for more!