Hello all,
I’m calling for the ninth Hardware Acceleration Working Group meeting to be held on 2022-05-31T16:00:00Z (your browser’s time). In case you missed past meetings, here’s the ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration Working Group list with past recordings we are keeping. As for the working group resources, find them below:
ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration Working Group (HAWG) resources
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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
Plan of record is to touch on a) Humble transition, b) status of hardware support and other updates. In addition, we’ll have Christophe Bourque Bédard (@christophebedard) from Polytechnique Montréal telling us about extensions to ros2_tracing
with the analysis and visualization of the flow of messages across distributed ROS 2 systems. Their method detects one-to-many and many-to-many causal links between input and output messages, including indirect causal links through simple user-level annotations, providing valuable timing and scheduling information to further study and improve the any ROS 2 system. This is very valuable for hardware acceleration purposes. Their paper is titled: “Message Flow Analysis with Complex Causal Links for Distributed ROS 2 Systems”
The meeting is initially scheduled to be 60 minutes. Coordinates for the meeting below:
- Time: 2022-05-31T16:00:00Z
- Coordinates: https://meet.google.com/oxm-yffu-aex
- Preliminary agenda:
- Welcome and newcomers intro
- Working group progress review:
- Humble transition
- Status of hardware support
- Other updates
- Guest talk: Christophe Bourque Bédard, Message Flow Analysis with Complex Causal Links for Distributed ROS 2 Systems
- Q&A