ROS News for the Week of 7/27/2020

[Katherine_Scott]

New Semantic Segmentation Model

Champ Quad Controller

ROS News for the Week of 7/27/2020

DARPA SubT News

• SubT Challenge is going fully virtual.
• Qualify by 9/15 to enter competition
• SubT Hello World
• New SubT Models in Forbes

Tutorials and Videos

• Innovation Coffee with Alessandro Grande and Raffaello Bonghi
• How to Simulate A TB3
• Tutorial: PR2 in Hospital Simulation
• Apex AI Autoware Lecture 12: Motion Control

Surveys
Please take the time to help make the community better by giving feedback

• ROSBag Introspection Survey
• URDF Exporter Survey
• Config File Survey

Events

• US Department of Transport Panel on Open Source and Mobility

ROS 2 News*

• Fergs on What ROS 2 Needs
• Fraunhofer on ROS 2 (German)
• ROS 2 in Production from ROS Industrial

Packages and Such

• MavSDK 0.29.0 Released
• RPM Build Farm Support
• Freedom Robotics Robot Resource Monitor Free Trial
• ROS Quadruped Robot Controller
• Package to convert point clouds to Open3D
• New semantic segmentation models trained on combined data sets
• MoveIt Melodic Release

Everything Else

• ROS Gundam gets a head.
• Forbes/iRobot on the future of Robots
• Vanttec Team uses ROS to win RoboBoat 2020
• Six River System CEOs on the Pandemic

Bad Robot Ideas
This week seemed to be full of really dangerous robot applications. I think the pandemic is making people stir crazy

• Razor Robot
• Haircut Robot
• Acrobat Robot

Got something interesting to share? Have an event planned? Please drop it in the comments or drop me a line.

[smac]

@Katherine_Scott

Package to convert point clouds to Open3D

You should update to the new URL: GitHub - ros-perception/perception_open3d: Open3D analog to perception_pcl, containing conversion functions from Open3D to/from ROS types I’ve been working with them to add this to the ros-perception org.

Also gave a talk on ROS2 https://www.robobusiness.com/the-life-and-times-of-ros2-a-look-at-the-future-of-robotics-infrastructure/ that can be viewed.

[mkhansen]

Thanks Kat for the links as usual! I’m glad to see @mikeferguson’s blog, I wasn’t aware of that before.

[Katherine_Scott]

Maybe if we say @mikeferguson name three times he’ll show up and drop a knowledge bomb on us.

[sjhansen3]

@Katherine_Scott - that semantic segmentation is really cool. Love these weekly updates along with the gifs!