ROS News for the Week of August 26th, 2024
We need your help testing the next Gazebo release! The Gazebo Ionic Test and Tutorial party kicked off this week. We need all of our Gazebo users to take a moment and test the pre-release binaries. We’re offering our top ten testers free Gazebo swag.
The ROSCon Birds of Feather session sign up sheet is now live. If you and your friends want a dedicated time and space to meetup we recommend you organize a session.
FINAL REMINDER: 2024-09-03T07:00:00Z is the last day to get discounted ROSCon early bird registration.
This Thursday, 2024-09-05, we’ve got a ROS By-The-Bay Meetup planned. Our ROS and Gazebo summer interns will be presenting and we’ll have a really exciting talk about integrating microROS with microPython.
As of this week all active ROS 2 versions have binary packages for the MOLA 3D LiDAR odometry, mapping and localization package. This is some fantastic work and worth checking out.
This week @tomoyafujita introduced an rsyslog backend for ROS logging. Not only is this new backend 
rocket fast, it is also super easy to integrate with a bunch of cloud log management systems.
Events
2024-09-05 ROS By-The-Bay- 2024-09-09 ROS Industrial APAC meeting
- 2024-09-16 F1Tenth @ IEEE Smart Mobility
- 2024-09-17 → 2024-09-18 Control of a mobile robot and motion planning using ROS 2 (Japan)
- 2024-09-17 ROS Meetup in Waterloo Ontario
- 2024-09-18 Foxglove Actuate San Francisco
- 2024-09-19 ==> 2024-09-20 ROSCon Spain
- 2024-09-05 ICRA 2025 Tutorial / Workshop CFP Deadline
- 2024-09-18 ROS Meetup Stuttgart
- 2024-09-19 ROS Meetup Colombia
- 2024-09-19 ROS Meetup Argentina
- 2024-09-25 ROSConJP
- 2024-10-04 F1Tenth Race at IROS 2024
- 2024-10-21 → 2024-10-24 ROSCon 2024 in Odense, Denmark
- 2024-10-22 → 2024-10-24 AgRobot FIRA in Sacramento
- 2024-10-24 → 2024-10-25 ROS Industrial Conference EU in Odense
- 2024-10-23 → 2024-10-25 16th International Conference on Social Robotics +AI
- 2024-11-02 → 2024-11-03 ROSCon China in Shenzhen
- 2024-11-6 → 2024-11-7 ROS-Industrial APAC Summit
- 2024-12-03 ROSCon Germany
- 2024-12-05 ROSCon India
News
- ROSCon Birds of Feather Sessions
- 74 Robotics Companies that are Hiring
- New ROS Book in Japanese
GSoC 2024 Project DAVE Migration and Upgrade- GSoC 2024: Project DAVE Sonar Simulation
- Open Source Robotics on OpenCV Weekly
- Indy Autonomous Challenge AI & Automation Summit
- Women in Robotics Scholarship
- Awesome Point Cloud Scene Flow
- Drone-assisted Road Gaussian Splatting with Cross-view Uncertainty
- DeRO: Dead Reckoning Based on Radar Odometry With Accelerometers Aided for Robot Localization
- Luxonis ToF Sensor Calibration
- Fieldwork Berry Picking Robot
- Robot Electricians in Denmark
- Video Friday
- Top Programming Languages 2024
- How to Glue This to That
ROS
- WE NEED YOUR HELP: Gazebo Ionic Tutorial Party
- rsyslog Backend for ROS Logging
- New 3D LiDAR odometry, mapping and localization packages
- September 2024 Meetings Aerial Robotics
- 62 New and 407 Updated Packages for Humble
- 65 New and 201 Updated Packages for Jazzy
- Open Navigation X AMD Collab – Source
- Understanding Misconfigurations in ROS: An Empirical Study and Current Approaches
- A ROS package for the Arduino Nicla Vision board
- Articulate Robotics on Zenoh
- Gazebo Classic with Aruco Markers
- FZI/KIT: Efficient Edge AI: Deploying Convolutional Neural Networks on FPGA with the Gemmini Accelerator
- LIDAR Place Recognition
- The MIKRIK Project Delivers an Accessible Platform for ROS and ROS 2 Robots, with Visual SLAM
- Lenny’s ROS 2 Tutorial
- Accurate Prior-centric Monocular Positioning with Offline LiDAR Fusion
- How I Set Up ROS 2 on My MacBook Using Docker Without Losing My Sanity
- Drone simulation environment setup (PX4, ROS2, gazebo)
- YOLO V10
Got some time this weekend? 
We need your help testing the next Gazebo release! It shouldn’t take you more than an hour to run a Gazebo test, and it really helps us make sure Ionic is ready to go!