Hardware Acceleration WG, meeting #13

Hey all,

I’m happy to call for the 13th Hardware Acceleration Working Group meeting (LinkedIn event) to be held on 2022-12-13T16:00:00Z (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

In this meeting we will touch on two topics we didn’t expand last time: a) Updates on the Robotic Processing Unit and Robotics MCU projects and b) discussion around REP-2014 and RobotPerf including the recent community discussion and other updates on hardware acceleration. The session will also include a guest talk provided by Piotr Rybicki from Robotec.ai. He’ll be telling us about his recent work around the RobotecGPULidar, a cross-platform (Windows and Linux), C/C++ library for simulating LiDARs on CUDA-enabled GPUs, accelerated by RTX cores if available.

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

  • Time: 2022-12-13T16:00:00Z
  • Duration: 60 minutes
  • Coordinates: https://meet.google.com/wns-ihie-mzc
  • Preliminary agenda:
    1. Welcome
    2. Old business and progress review
      • 2.1 Updates on the Robotic Processing Unit and Robotics MCU projects
      • 2.2 discussion on REP-2008, Q&A and vote for draft status (announcement)
      • 2.3 discussion around REP-2014 feedback and RobotPerf including the recent community discussion
      • 2.4 other updates
    3. New business
      • 3.1 None planned
    4. Guest talk: Piotr Rybicki, RobotecGPULidar, a cross-platform (Windows and Linux), C/C++ library for simulating LiDARs on CUDA-enabled GPUs, accelerated by RTX cores if available.
    5. Q&A
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Updated the agenda above. Added REP 2008 final review and draft vote - ROS 2 Hardware acceleration architecture and conventions.

Come join us this afternoon to discuss updates on RobotPerf (see RobotPerf benchmarks, the benchmarking suite to evaluate robotics computing performance using ROS 2) and more.

Thanks all for a good meeting yesterday.

00:00 Welcome
01:23
Updated Robotic Processing Unit (RPU) mechanical design
03:27
Updates on Robotics MCU project
07:57
RobotPerf, benchmarking suite to evaluate robotics computing performance
14:25
Standardization effort updates
32:50
REP 2008 vote result
33:33
Guest talk: RobotecGPULidar, Adam Dabrowski
49:13
Q&A

Minutes | LinkedIn event

Meeting polls

Conducted to pick the opinion of the WG on some of the previous discussions at:

Should REP 2008 be accepted as a draft and move forward in the standardization process?

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(22 Yes, 0 No)

How should input data be provided to benchmarks?

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Should tests require access to the source code running on each hardware, are we fine accepting binaries or just the results?

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