ROS News for the Week of February 6th, 2023

[Katherine_Scott]

ROS News for the Week of February 6th, 2023

We announced the OSRF Project Committee for Space ROS this week!

The 2022 ROS Metrics Report is out. ROS 2 is now ~40% of all ROS downloads and Humble is 10% of all ROS downloads. There were HALF A BILLION ROS packages downloaded in 2022!

Building a (ROS-based) legged robot in 80 days: Lessons learned, tears shed, blood spilled.

There were a lot of fantastic tutorials published this week! Everything from launch file conversion, Kubernetes and ROS, OpenAI Whisper, graph databases, PID controllers, and a lot more! Make sure to check them out!

Events

• 2023-02-13 Reunión ROS Es/Sp
• 2023-02-14 Be an Issac ROS DevOps Hero
• 2023-02-15 ROS 2 Industrial Manipulation Workshop
• 2023-02-23 How to Generate Synthetic Data for Training AI Models with Isaac Replicator
• 2023-02-26 Robots on Ice!
• 2023-03-07 ROS Industrial Training
• 2023-03-09 ROS Meetup Stuttgart
• 2023-03-?? Bangalore ROS Meetup
• 2023-04-08 Robot Block Party
• 2023-04-28 Open Hardware Summit
• 2023-05-10 Robotics Summit with our Dr. Grey
• 2023-06-02 ICRA Robot Wrestling Competition
• 2023-07-04 → 2023-07-05 ROScon France in Bordeaux – in conjunction with RoboCup
• 2023-09-26 ROSCon JP

News

• Announcing the OSRF Project Committee for Space ROS
• 2022 ROS 2 Metrics Report
• Building a legged robot in 80 days: Lessons learned, tears shed, blood spilled.
• New InOrbit Robot Shop in Mountain View
• Inverse Reinforcement Learning Framework for Transferring Task Sequencing Policies from Humans to Robots in Manufacturing Applications
• Berkshire Grey and Locus Robotics join forces to maximize cross-platform robotic automation
• Interesting: NVIDIA based, modular, PLC controller
• The Future of Mobility with Jan Becker of Apex
• Real-Time Simultaneous Localization and Mapping with LiDAR intensity
• How the Best Developers Get Hired: Establishing Your Brand
• Self-driving truck companies face a potential roadblock in California
• Get $500 to Tweet from ICRA!
• Single-Shot is Enough: Panoramic Infrastructure Based Calibration of Multiple Cameras and 3D LiDARs
• Rapid Robotics and Universal Robotics Team Up
• Programming a Robot with ChatGPT?
• Autonomous Unimog!
• F1Tenth at ICRA Registration
• ROS and DDS: Making the Most Out of Your Software Framework
• IROS 2023 CFP – DEADLINE 2023-03-01
• Visual SLAM Comparison with Containers
• Training a Custom Image Classification Network for OAK-D
• More Bark for Your Buck
• IR-MCL: Implicit Representation-Based Online Global Localization

ROS

• OpenAI Whisper ROS Interface
• How to do ROS K8 Deployment
• A Multi-Robot System Application: Starbots Coffee
• Behavior Tree Beta 5!
• Rosetta_launch - Everything I Know About ROS 1 and ROS 2 launch files
• Connect Reliably to ROS 1 and 2 Stacks with High-Rate Data and Large Messages
• Inquiry about use of security code scanning in ROS projects
• MVSim: Vehicle dynamics simulator: C++ library, ROS1 & ROS2 nodes
• A ROS2 Humble fully configurable PID library based on Brett Beauregard Arduino PID library
• Mininal example of ROS and MemGraph interaction
• ROS Workspace for Open Deep Robotics
• AprilTags Model for Gazebo
• NEW: micro-ROS Book Chapter
• An Illumination-Robust Point-Line Visual Odometry
• Fully autonomous real-world reinforcement learning with applications to mobile manipulation
• RaspberryPi OS + ROS 2 Book (Japanese)
• SWRI ROSBag Database

Questions

• Gazebo: disable physics or enable kinematics through code/command line?
• Get absolute orientation from angular velocity and linear acceleration data?
• GNSS reference document?

[msadowski]

@Katherine_Scott

NEW: micro-ROS Book Chapter

It’s such a shame this is paywalled, looks like a great read!

[ralph-lange]

It’s such a shame this is paywalled, looks like a great read!

Small consolation: The reading sample at Google Books is quite extensive.

[msadowski]

I did start with that but was bummed by the missing pages. Will Springer ever allow you to publish this or will this always remain in a walled garden? Are the rules here the same as with scientific publishing, where the authors could in theory host the copies on their personal website?

[gavanderhoorn]

+100 on getting the chapter published @ralph-lange et al.

@msadowski: although the chapter provides a nice consolidated overview of micro-ROS, there doesn’t appear to be any really new information in it. The micro-ROS documentation and tutorials seem to cover the same content (perhaps the explanation of the design and design choices is a bit harder to find, but IIRC, should be described in the OFERA deliverables on micro-ROS?).

[ralph-lange]

Will Springer ever allow you to publish this or will this always remain in a walled garden? Are the rules here the same as with scientific publishing, where the authors could in theory host the copies on their personal website?

That’s allowed only after a 24 months embargo period. Of course, we will do that then.

[Katherine_Scott]

Yes it is paywalled, but I also think it is important that we provide pointers to resources, both paid and open-source.

Unfortunately, producing high-quality content takes a lot of time and not everyone can dedicated their time without compensation. There’s nothing wrong with paying authors if you can afford it. For those who can’t afford it there are often other means of obtaining those references both legitimate and illegitimate (e.g. libraries, Google dorking, LibGen, etc).