Navigation Working Group Meeting Minutes - Feb 15
Attendees:
- Steve Macenski
- Sachin Kumar
- Michael Ferguson
- David Lu!!
- Pradheep Krishna
Topics
Announcements:
- N/A
New additions of note:
- New Graceful Controller plugin! (Alberto Tudela)
- Adding new default Nav2 rviz plugin for algorithm selectors (Neobotix)
- New Docker Development Guide Docker for Development: Zero to Hero — Nav2 1.0.0 documentation (Open Navigation)
- Behavior Server updated topic to use collision monitor and velocity smoother command pipeline (Open Navigation)
- Adding velocity scheduled zones for the collision monitor (Dexory)
- New Cost Critic in MPPI which users report better experiences with (Robocc, Open Navigation)
- Fix to MPPI’s PathAlign Critic which improves performance substantially for path tracking (Open Navigation)
- Added progress checker selector BT node (Open Navigation)
Ongoing:
- Davide working on BT.CPPv4 migration for Jazzy
- Loopback simulator with incremental progress
New bugs of note:
- N/A
Anything else?
Round Robbin (questions, comments, what youre working on, updates, etc)
- Steve: Created the Docker Development guide, resolved the MPPI PathAlign and Cost Critic problems, updating content on the Nav2 website, fixed a number of flaky tests. Currently experimenting with some MPPI technique variants to further optimize C-space search while being smooth & figuring out the last CI bug.
- Fergs: Blogs and graceful controller items, image pipeline documentation
- Pradheep: Rviz selector panel
- Sachin: N/A
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