ROSCon 2025 Workshops Announced / Registration Open
Hi Everyone,
ROSCon 2025 workshops have been announced and we’ve opened up ROSCon registration. We recommend you register for ROSCon ASAP as our workshops usually sell out fast! The last day for early bird registration is 2025-08-17T07:00:00Z.
ROSCon 2025 Workshops
Half-Day Morning Workshops (8 AM - 12 PM)
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ros2_control: Fun With Robot Drivers
- Speakers: Dr. Denis Stogl (Stogl Robotics), Bence Magyar (Locus Robotics)
- Summary: This workshop offers a practical, deep dive into writing robot drivers using
ros2_control, a hardware-agnostic control framework. Participants will get hands-on experience integrating an embedded board for a differential drive robot, exploring best practices and examples for increased flexibility and robustness.
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Scalable Multi-Robot Scene Workflows using ROS Simulation Interfaces Standard in Isaac Sim
- Speakers: Ayush Ghosh (NVIDIA), Raffaello Bonghi (NVIDIA)
- Summary: Learn about the new ROS Simulation Interfaces standard and its practical implementation within NVIDIA Isaac Sim. The workshop will demonstrate how this standard facilitates reproducible multi-robot scene generation, deployment, and environmental manipulation, ideal for automated testing and leveraging Isaac Sim’s photorealistic, GPU-accelerated capabilities.
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ROS 2 & micro-ROS Dive In: Low-Cost Underwater Robotics
- Speakers: Abu Bakr Azam, Mohammad Aasim Khan, Nguyen Trung Kien (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
- Summary: This workshop guides participants in building a cost-effective, closed-loop AUV control framework using ROS 2 for sensing and micro-ROS on an ESP32 MCU for real-time actuation. Attendees will gain hands-on experience with thruster control, sensor integration (Blue Robotics Ping SONAR), and sensor-fusion techniques.
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Introducing AI PCs for Embodied AI
- Speakers: Graham Schelle, Sonya Yang, Joshua Lu, Ken O’Brien (AMD), Chun-Yi Lee (National Taiwan University)
- Summary: Get hands-on experience with embodied AI open-source software running on new AI PC platforms, combining CPUs, iGPUs, and NPUs. The workshop will explore various robotics frameworks, demonstrate computation across processor types, and introduce an LLM-driven NPU code generator for ROS 2 software.
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Introduction to ROS and Building Robots with Open-Source Software
- Speakers: Katherine Scott (Intrinsic)
- Summary: This workshop provides an introduction to building robots with open-source software, particularly ROS. It covers fundamental concepts through talks and practical exercises, discussing open-source contribution, governance, and licensing, along with insights into OSRF projects like Gazebo, Open-RMF, and Turtlebot.
Half-Day Afternoon Workshops (12 PM - 5 PM)
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ROS 2 Networking Redefined: Deep Dive into RMW Zenoh
- Speakers: Julien Enoch (ZettaScale Technology), Alejandro Hernández Cordero (Honu Robotics), Yadunund Vijay (Intrinsic)
- Summary: Explore RMW Zenoh, a Tier 1 solution for ROS 2, and its differences from DDS-based RMWs. This workshop provides comprehensive insights into configuring RMW Zenoh for various scenarios, including intra-robot and extra-robot communications, constrained networks, Internet connectivity, and SROS for security.
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How to Implement a Full ROS 2 Application: a Tic-Tac-Toe Player Robot
- Speakers: Ricardo Tellez (The Construct), Brandy Xue (AgileX)
- Summary: Learn to build a complete ROS 2 application that integrates perception, robot arm motion, and AI by programming an arm robot to play tic-tac-toe. The workshop covers integrating a robotic arm, camera, and AI engine, using both simulation and a real robot.
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Reinforcement Learning for Deliberation in ROS 2
- Speakers: Christian Henkel (Bosch Research), Sebastian Castro (Robotics and AI Institute)
- Summary: Hosted by the ROS Deliberation Community Group, this beginner-friendly workshop introduces Reinforcement Learning (RL) for high-level decision-making in ROS 2. Through hands-on exercises, participants will learn core RL concepts like data collection, hyperparameter tuning, policy training (PPO, SAC), and result interpretation in a simulated robot environment.
Full-Day Workshops (Time TBD)
- Hands-On Aerial Robotics Using PX4 and ROS 2
- Speakers: Ramon Roche (Dronecode Foundation), Patrik Pordi (ARK Electronics), Beniamino Pozzan (PX4 Autopilot)
- Summary: This full-day, hands-on workshop demonstrates how PX4 powers high-reliability robotics projects. Participants will learn to integrate their ROS 2 setup with PX4, stream live telemetry, explore perception integrations (ArUco, LiDAR), and build high-level control routines in ROS, all within a fully open-source environment.