Robot Development Kit v0.3.0 release

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Here comes the v0.3.0 release of Intel® Robot Development Kit . Comparing to v0.2.0, CNN based visual grasp detection accelerated by OpenVINO™ and two performance measurement tools are added:

  • Visual Manipulation
    • ros2_grasp_library accelerated by OpenVINO™, CNN based grasp planning and detection for industrial robot visual manipulation.
    • Unified native APIs for different robot arm and gripper drivers.
    • Sample applications for key manipulation usages: Draw “X”, Fixed pick and place, Random pick and place, Recognized pick and place.
      See demo video for Random pick and Recognized pick , enjoy!
  • Performance Tools
    • A profiling tool rtmonitor built to monitor and capture real time performance metrics of ROS2 C++ Application.
    • ROS2 topics performance measurement tool rdk_perf to show result in rqt at run time.

Any issues please report to github.

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Good progress for making it done, Thanks!

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That is good, look forward to trying it.

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It’s more convenient to use ROS2 with Intel Technology. Good progress.