September 2024 Meetings Aerial Robotics - back from summer!

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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

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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Cant wait for first meeting after the break!See you soon :slight_smile:

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The paper from the presentation has just been published online on IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine:

The Arxiv paper has been updated to have included the latest changes before publication in case you don’t have access to IEEE papers:

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Darn, I missed this notification. Any change that the meeting was recorded? Thanks for the paper link!

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@RFRIEDM : too bad you couldn’t make it, but yes there is a recording! Here it is :smiley:

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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One more update - I have proposed adding GeoPoseStamped to REP-147.

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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Next meeting will be next week, which is a developer meeting!

2024-09-25T16:00:00Z→2024-09-25T17:00:00Z → CANCELLED
Meeting link: This meeting is cancelled

We will have a round table of updates of what people have been working on in the summer just to catch up and to see who needs help. Also we will be taking a look at the aerial robotics landscape of the current state and see what is still missing.

Hope to see you there!

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Sorry all! Since the gazebo meeting about the new ionic release is planned, this week’s meeting (25th of September) will be cancelled! I’ll announce the next meeting which will be in 2.5 weeks in the next thread next week.

In the mean time I highly encourage you to go to the Gazebo Ionic release meeting instead: