Nova Carter AMR for ROS 2 w/ 800 megapixel/sec sensor processing

[brettpac]

Following up on Steve’s comments, after posting our own demo with the new NOVA Carter AMR here…

Autonomous Mapping with SMACC & Isaac Sim (with VIDEO!)

Hi Everyone, I wanted to show off an autonomous exploration and mapping application we wrote using SMACC, the Nova Carter AMR and Isaac Sim. Be sure to watch it in HD if you can. [Autonomous Exploration & Mapping with SMACC inside Isaac Sim] This example uses ROS 2 Humble and is our first example to integrate with issac_ros_nitros and the isaac_ros_map_localization packages. We also ported a modified version of the famous rrt_exploration package from ROS to ROS 2 which we used to …

I can’t help but agree that the sensor suite and compute power on this robot is absolutely incredible. I know of nothing comparable on the market.