Navigation Working Group Meeting Minutes - Sept 14
Attendees:
- Steve Macenski
- Francisco Martin Rico
- Josh Wallace
- Magda Skoczen
- Alexey Merzlyakov
- Sayed Sheikh
- Sachin Kumar
New people introduce themselves
Topics
Announcements:
- N/A
New additions of note:
- Fixing RQT Reconfigure for Controller Server in main branch (Open Navigation)
- New Collision Detection node within the Collision Monitor package (Pixel Robotics)
- New Unique vs Cloned multi-robot launch files (LG)
- Fixing lifecycle node cycling in Humble due to costmap threads (Open Navigation)
- Expose the action server result timeout as a parameter as a medium-term work around to the rcl actionlib bug (Kiwibot)
- Added support for multi-robot and namespacing to the Simple Commander API (Open Navigation)
- Fixed bug in BT navigator preventing getting of node parameters in the BT node plugins (Open Navigation)
Ongoing:
- GPS tutorial coming shortly (Kiwibot) GPS WPF tutorial by pepisg · Pull Request #457 · ros-planning/navigation.ros.org · GitHub
- VIO tutorial with Stereolabs SDK coming shortly (Open Navigation)
- Interpolating lookahead point at the goal pose to get to the goal pose after in RPP (James Ward)
- Velocity-dependent Polygons in Collision Monitor (Robocc)
New bugs of note:
- MPPI binaries are broken for TBD reason. Build from source.
Anything else?
Round Robbin (questions, comments, what youre working on, updates, etc)
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Steve: stereolabs guide, vio tutorial, roscon talk finalizing,
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Alexey: added videos on the collision monitor to readme/docs. Working on Sphinx updates on nav2 docs. ROS rate work in rclcpp.
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Francisco: working non-planar navigation this summer! Shown a cool videos!
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Josh: Route server progress
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Magda: Costmap subscriber questions
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Sachin: GPU openCL interest. Collision checking, amcl, and voxel layer. Batch processing or per-line segment.