Unity releases ROS support. Autoware LGSVL Sim CycloneDDS works too

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Unity has released support for ROS


Also Autoware Foundation developer default RMW Eclipse Cyclone DDS “just works” in Unity 3D and LGSVL Simulator via Robotec.ai contributed integration because CycloneDDS is a pure C implementation without conflicting dependencies. Which is why LG adopted Eclipse Cyclone DDS for their Unity LGSVL Sim.

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Good work from Unity 3D, recognizing the importance of connecting simulation with the middleware that is the most important for robotics!

While Unity-Robotics-Hub is ROS 1 based, ROS 2 support is also possible indirectly, through bridging.

Robotec.ai has developed a separate solution, ROS2 for Unity, which uses ROS2 client library directly, without a need any bridges or sockets in between. Based on an open source project (ros2_dotnet), we have focused on performance and stability. For our ROS2 module, the default middleware is RMW Eclipse CycloneDDS.

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Hi Adam,

Just an update. We wrote a post here several months ago about our Fast DDS support for LGSVL - Unity 3D

Initially, Unity had a recognized bug, and we published a workaround while they were fixing it, but fortunately now it is fixed.

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