<div dir="ltr"><div>I had planned to CC TriEmbed on this announcement, but hit send too soon. The next IEEE Robotics and Automation meeting will be on ROS - an open source, distributed control framework that allows tying together a wide range of sensors and computing nodes. It has been used on several high profile robots, and is the control framework for the IEEE humanoid project as well.<br><br></div>Would love to have a few TriEmbed members join us - please sign up on the link below.<br><br><div><div><div><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Rodney Radford</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ncgadgetry@gmail.com">ncgadgetry@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 2:20 PM<br>Subject: IEEE/TAR meeting this Monday - Robotic Operating System (ROS)<br>To: trianglerobotics <<a href="mailto:trianglerobotics@yahoogroups.com">trianglerobotics@yahoogroups.com</a>><br><br><br><div dir="ltr">A reminder that this Monday (Nov 3), we will have a meeting on the Robotic Operating System (ROS).<br><div><br><a href="https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/m/29267" target="_blank">https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/m/29267</a><br><br></div><div>Daniel McDonald has been working hard on his presentation and has shown great progress with ROS for control and vision processing. I am really looking forward to this presentation and I hope you can attend.<br><br></div><div>Please remember to sign up so we can get an idea of how many will be there for food/drink ordering. <br><br></div><div>This is the description from the IEEE vtools page:<br><br><hr><br>Since its introduction in 2009, ROS, the
Robot Operating System has grown into a flexible and feature rich, open
source framework for writing robot software. ROS provides a message
passing communication system to enable the subsystems of a complex robot
to talk to each other. Standard message formats are predefined for
most common concepts such as poses, transforms, sensor readings,
including images and laser scans, and navigation messages such as
odometry, paths, and maps. In addition, tools are provided for
diagnosing and visualizing the robot's state along with out-of-the-box
pose estimation, localization, and navigation capabilities.
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<br>ROS includes integration with the Gazebo 3D simulator and physics
engine, OpenCV computer vision library, PCL, the Point Cloud Library,
for processing 3D data, and the MoveIt! motion planning library. It is
impossible to cover all of this functionality in one talk, but we will
take a quick overview of the ROS ecosystem and the breadth of
functionality available. We will survey the key features of the ROS
framework to understand how to use and extend it.
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<br>A demo of ROS components interacting across a variety of hardware
will bring to life the capabilities of this remarkable system by
allowing you to see a few of its features in action.
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