ROS News for the Week of April 19

[Katherine_Scott]

Week of 4/19/2021

Yes, that’s Gazebo on Windows with hardware support!



James Bruton makes a Jamming Phase Gripper

Events

• 4/28/2021 Gazebo Community Meeting on Bullet
• 5/31/2021 ICRA Workshop on Autonomous Racing
• 6/19/2021 Construct ROS Developers Day
• 6/22/2021 ROSConJp
• 7/9/2021 ROSCon CFP Closes
• 7/9/2021 ROSCon Diversity Scholarshop Application Deadline
• 10/21/2021 ROSCon is Back!
• 11/22/2021 ROSCon Fr

News

• IEEE Spectrum: 15 AI Graphs
• The Most Canadian Robot
• Kat on Contextual Electronics
• Nuro Pizza Delivery Robot
• James Bruton Rolls His Own Jamming Phase Gripper
• Open Robotics is looking for GSoD students (DEADLINE EXTENED TO MONDAY)
• Forbes: Toyota Selects Apex.OS for Autonomy Stack
• TC: Attack of the Robot SPACs
• Forbes: Canvas raises $24M
• Vicarious Surgical Raises $425M
• TC: Toyota Taps Apex.AI
• TuSimple Raises $1B in IPO
• K3lso Quadruped Update

ROS Related

• F1TENTH Build Video from UPenn
• MoveIt 1.1.2 for Noetic
• MoveIt 1.1.2 Blog Post
• Clear Path Robotcs ROS Tutorials
• Linux GUI apps on Windows?!
• A guide to Docker & ROS
• ROS 2 / PX4 Tutorail
• Boston Dynamics Spot Model on Ignition Fuel
• Autonomous Rover from Scratch Video
• microROS Hits Quality Level Two
• Microsoft Enables Linux GUI Apps on Windows 10 for Developers
• Indy Autonomous Challenge ROS 2 / Autoware Tutorial Video
• High Assurance ROS
• ROS 1 Bag to ROS 2 Bag Tooling
• XRCE-DDS Client makes Quality Level 1
• ROS 2 Packages by Quality Level
• Robonomics Hackathon for Home/Office Automation

Questions

• What is best practice for setting a QoS profile in a rclcpp publisher or subscriber? edit
• How to Detect a Cliff Using Pointcloud Data
• Apply Software Binning for Camera Images

[gavanderhoorn]

My nominations for the “ROS Questions” section:

• What is the relation of releases on different ROS2 release channels
• Are there examples of robots using diff_drive_controller in ros2_control?
• ros2 application testing guide: “Are there any guides/tutorials on how community developing applications on top of ros2 are testing/integrating their code?”
• Problems with rclcpp executor as class member

[mkhansen]

Can someone with better eyes than me make out the RTF and FPS for the WSL running Gazebo demo?

[peci1]

In the video, he was saying 60 FPS.

[chfritz]

@mkhansen

Can someone with better eyes than me make out the RTF and FPS for the WSL running Gazebo demo?

RTF looks like 1.2 to me (more easily readable in the original post than in the GIF included here).

[gavanderhoorn]

@mkhansen

Can someone with better eyes than me make out the RTF and FPS for the WSL running Gazebo demo?

A still of the video:

RViz FPS is probably capped to 30.