KimMcG
August 29, 2024, 9:12am
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Hi all!
Summer holidays is over so it is time for a new bunch of aerial ROS meetings!
The first one will be a scientific meeting so it meanst that we will have an presentation by an external about an important topic in Aerial Robotics!
Wednesday 11th of September
2024-09-11T16:00:00Z →2024-09-11T17:00:00Z
Meeting link: https://meet.google.com/vqa-nwxg-jkt
The presenter is Giuseppe Silano (@gsilano , https://giuseppesilano.net/ ) an Associated Researcher at the Czech Technical University in Prague and he will be presenting about an upcoming paper in IEEE RAM ‘Survey of Simulators for Aerial Robots.’ The presentation is called ‘Are Robotic Simulators a Solved Problem? Criteria for Selection and Customization’
The paper on which this presentation is based on can already be read on ArXiv
Uncrewed Aerial Vehicle (UAV) research faces challenges with safety, scalability, costs, and ecological impact when conducting hardware testing. High-fidelity simulators offer a vital solution by replicating real-world conditions to enable the...
These meetings are planned on the ROS community calendar so make sure to add those to your own. Also we keep these meetings sycned on the Github projects list for meetings on the ROS-aerial repository .
Hope to see you on the 11th!
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Jasiex
September 5, 2024, 5:29am
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Cant wait for first meeting after the break!See you soon
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KimMcG
September 5, 2024, 6:30am
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The paper from the presentation has just been published online on IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine:
Uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) research faces challenges with safety, scalability, costs, and ecological impact when conducting hardware testing. High-fidelity simulators offer a vital solution by replicating real-world conditions to enable the...
The Arxiv paper has been updated to have included the latest changes before publication in case you don’t have access to IEEE papers:
Uncrewed Aerial Vehicle (UAV) research faces challenges with safety, scalability, costs, and ecological impact when conducting hardware testing. High-fidelity simulators offer a vital solution by replicating real-world conditions to enable the...
RFRIEDM
September 11, 2024, 9:45pm
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Darn, I missed this notification. Any change that the meeting was recorded? Thanks for the paper link!
KimMcG
September 12, 2024, 7:44pm
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@RFRIEDM : too bad you couldn’t make it, but yes there is a recording! Here it is
Here are the slides of @gsilano talk:
Presentation Slides Aerial Simulation survey 11 Sep 2024 (2.2 MB)
The citation of the paper that this presentation featured:
C. A. Dimmig et al., “Survey of Simulators for Aerial Robots: An Overview and In-Depth Systematic Comparisons,” in IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine 2024
Thanks @gsilano for this very interesting presentation!
Also we had some announcements as well:
Next meeting will be a developer meeting which willl be on Wednesday 25th of September , 4 pm UTC . It will be announced in this same thread.
You can find these meetings on the ROS community calender or the ROS-aerial github repo .
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RFRIEDM
September 12, 2024, 11:54pm
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One more update - I have proposed adding GeoPoseStamped
to REP-147.
ros-infrastructure:master
← Ryanf55:clarify-aerial-orientation
opened 11:50PM - 12 Sep 24 UTC
# Purpose
Recommend a standard way of publishing the pose of an aerial vehicl… e and clarify ambiguities with regards to geographic orientation values in outdoor scenarios.
# Details
This clarifies a standard way to publish global pose of a vehicle. This has been adopted by the ArduPilot DDS interface and is part of the stable 4.5 release. I added another example to REP-103 to remove ambiguity of the orientation.
Once we add a test in ArduPilot for the orientation, I would like to link the code directly here in the REP as a reference.
# Rendered
![image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/365368e9-c3bc-4bf9-be91-9d05d19a3bf7)
Now that ArduPilot (and a couple other projects I work on) have adopted this, I am more confident in its acceptance to the REP.
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