We were a bit slow kicking off this year, so welcome to the first ROS Maritime Community Group meeting in 2025!
NOTE: we are moving the meeting to an hour later (9 am Pacific) starting this month, in response to past feedback. We hope this accommodates US West Coast attendees.
If you have suggestions for quality speaker candidates for future meetings or want to present your work, or have ideas for community projects for the working group to discuss, we are all ears. Please direct message @mabelzhang and @evan-palmer in a group message.
This month, we will hear from Vu Tien Luc, now at Swedish Maritime Robotics Centre, about NTU Singapore team Mecatron’s UnitySim, a simulator built on Unity3D + ROS for underwater robotics competitions such as the Singapore AUV Challenge and can be adapted for Robosub. The talk was originally given at the Singapore ROS Meetup. The simulator is closed source, but we thought the combination of Unity and ROS is still interesting for this community to see.
Description: Drone testing for autonomous missions is inherently risky; as such, code validation in simulation is crucial in saving time, costs and increasing chances of success. In this session, Luc will share about how he and his team use Unity3D, a game engine which offers quality physics and graphics, to validate autonomous programs before they are deployed on actual AUVs (Autonomous Underwater Vehicle).
Bio: Luc is the Executive Lead of Mecatron, the underwater robotics team from NTU, Singapore. He has experience with training reinforcement learning model in Unity and deploying it on an underwater drone in real life. He specialises in simulation (Unity, UE), drone software (ardupilot/px4) and is passionate about product development for AUV/UAV.
When: 2025-02-18T17:00:00Z→2025-02-18T18:00:00Z (NOTE time change!)
Where: Virtual at Launch Meeting - Zoom
Calendar event: Google Calendar
Agenda: ROS Maritime Community Group meeting agenda - Google Docs
We are looking for speakers and meeting content for subsequent months this year. Please get in touch if you have ideas.
See you there!
Quick links to resources for the Community Group:
ROS Discourse Maritime category
Agenda
Google Group (only used to send meeting calendar invites)
Public Google Calendar
GitHub kanban board
GitHub community
Matrix chat