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ROS 2 Embedded SIG meeting Agenda 11/05
05 NOVEMBER 2018 17:00 PM, Hangouts Meet.
ATTENDEES
- eProsima: Jaime Martin, Borja Outerelo
- Bosch: Ingo Lütkebohle
- Acutronic Robotics: Iñigo Muguruza
- eSOL: Akihiko Tsukuda, Shoji Morita (supporting Renesas, https://www.esol.com/embedded/emcos.html)
- Amazon: Nick Burek
- Renesas: Osamu “Max” Matshushima
- AIST: Geoffrey Biggs
AGENDA
Quick presentations
Quick presentations on each of the attendees.
By turns, each of the attendees introduces themselves. Check Attendees section for the list.
Embedded ROS 2 Design
Summary of the current status of the design.
PR on ROS2 Design:
Original design doc from OFERA/microROS:
Discussion
Ingo: What kind of devices we are targeting?
Geoffrey Biggs: Possible two targets:
Bigger devices using the current stack.
Smaller devices using something more like rosserial.
Iñigo: We are not very far from small devices on OFERA project we are squeezing the sizes with pretty good results (XRCE-DDS client is taking ~4k RAM)
Nick: We are looking at TurtleBot. We don’t think we need a smaller implementation.
They have one implementation targeting Arduino, extending TurtleBot that is already integrated on Arduino platform.
Ingo: May OSRF can help with some optimisations and modularisation on RCL and RMW.
Ingo & Geoffrey Biggs:
One of the most significant issues is the statically concept in RCL and RMW.
Ingo: We should engage OSRF for ensuring the success of this work. Some layers will need to be modified in future.
Current work review
List and review of currently available approaches.
Borja: The current release of OFERA/micro-ROS:
Project’s GitHub page:
Nick:
Very thin wrapper over Micro XRCE-DDS with pretty simple basic ROS 2 concepts.
Don’t need to touch ROS 2 core.
Having a lot of rosserial users, It looks a good idea to have a migration path to ROS 2.
Open question: Is the use case people bringing ROS 2 nodes to microcontrollers or just implementing specific nodes?
Ingo: People worrying about minimal impact will do their custom implementation.
People on ROS 2 community side, may want the full stack approach.
If we can get RCL/RMW really small would be the ideal approach.
Nick: H-ROS is other interesting approach using microprocessors. But how small they are targeting?.
Iñigo: H-ROS uses H-RIM to set a standard information model to be able to plug and play components.
H-ROS would like to integrate microcontrollers.
Ingo: We plan to benchmark the memory usage of the provided solutions.
We think that the messages buffers are probably the biggest consumers.
Nick: Will be Lovely to have measures on current consumption of RMW and RCL
Osamu “Max” Matshushima: RTOS is the biggest consumer on the system. In our POC FreeRTOS uses more ram than Micro XRCE-DDS implementation. TCP/IP stack included.
Link to the source code?
Borja: You can select the protocol you want to use under micro XRCE-DDS: TCP, UDP, Serial even personalise yours.
Ingo: We use FreeRTOS on XDK, see https://xdk.bosch-connectivity.com/hardware
Further actions
Organisation and further actions of a joint effort towards embedded ROS 2.
Ingo: Trying to get further information on the RCL and RMW implementation.
Maybe engage in a discussion on the size of the layers once we have some data.
Iñigo & Ingo & Borja:
RTOS implementation for later.
Osamu “Max” Matshushima:
Provide POC code.
AP
Provide some demos for memory usage measures.
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