ROS News for the Week 7/5/2021
Tool from Tangram: Compare FOV and Working Distance for Depth Cameras
I really appreciate this work, one thing that frustrates me as a computer vision person is when people don’t do basic specification checking when evaluating a new sensor.
NIST has Announced the 2021 ARIAC Winners
This week, my wonderful intern noticed that YouTube thinks RVIZ is a musical artist.
**ROSCON TALK PROPOSALS & DIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS ARE DUE TODAY!!!**
Events
- 7/9/2021 ROSCon CFP Closes
- 7/9/2021 ROSCon Diversity Scholarshop Application Deadline
- 7/25/2021 Black in Robotics Build a ROS 2 Robot
- 8/18/2021 ROS Industrial AP Workshop
- 9/14/2021 PX4 Dev Summit
- 9/16/2021 ROSConJp
- 10/16/2021 Self Racing Cars Bay Area
- 10/21/2021 ROSCon is Back!
News
- 2021 NIST ARIAC Competition Results
- OpenCV + Tangram on Sensors and Calibration
- Throwback: Robotics Research in the 90s
- Twitch Plays Operation using ROS
- Launch of the Open3D Foundation – FOSS Render Engine
- Robots X Arts Exhibition at RSS
- Madhur Behl (F1/Tenth) Awarded NSF Research Grant
- Techcrunch Weekly Roundup on Robotics Funding
- Ars Technica on Indy Autonomous Challenge
- Robotics Science and Systems 2021 is Next Week
- International Federation of Robotics on ROS Industrial
- Open Source Software Drives Indy Autonomous Challenge Racecars
- Women in Autonomy on Mentorship
- Autonomous Excavators powered by ROS
ROS
- Paper on Automatically Checking TF Frames for Issues
- HW Acceleration Working Group Meeting Recording
- Deep Learning for Manipulation Using Embedded GPUs
- Awesome micro-ROS Teensy Tutorial
- micro-ROS Teensy Support
- 15 New and 26 Updated Packages for Rolling Ridley
- Profiling ROS 2 Memory Usage
- MoveIt 2.2 Support for Foxy, Galactic, Rolling
- Fraunhaofer & ROS Industrial Open Source their Industrial Training
- ROS Mobile 2.1 Released
- RCLShark – Tool for ROS 2 IP Discovery + System Monitoring
- MoveIt 2.2 Change Log / Discussion
- SUPER COOL Tool from Tangram: Compare FOV and Working Distance for Depth Cameras
- Image Based Orientation Estimation using ROS
- PX4 Supports ROS Galactic
Questions
I chose these questions this week because they are questions that come up way too often and indicate that we need to improve the ROS 2 docs. If you are interested in helping with the ROS 2 docs, or are willing to port an article from the ROS Wiki to the ROS 2 Docs, please let me know. In particular, if you have a lot of experience with ROS 2 launch files I would love your help.
