This episode is dedicated to all those people that are thinking to move their robots to ROS2. One of the problems to move to ROS2 was the lack of a stable navigation system for ROS2 robots. But as you will learn today, this problem has been solved. So if you want to move to ROS2 and want to try to make a robot navigate, then this episode is dedicated to you.

Today we are going to talk about the ROS2 navigation stack which allows ROS2 robots to navigate autonomously.

But before going into that, let me remind you about our ROS online academy. Yes, at the Construct we have created an online academy named The Robot Ignite Academy which contains a ROS learning path for beginners. The path is composed by:

* Linux for Robotics* Python for Robotics* ROS Basic Concepts* Understanding TF* URDF for modeling robots* ROS Control* Build your own robot and ROSify it… and become a ROS Developer!

Now let me introduce you Steve Macenski. Steve works for Samsung Research America. There he is the open source robotics engineering lead of the company. He is a member of the board of the ROS2 Technical Steering Committee, and maintainer and developer of many important ROS2 packages related to the navigation system in ROS2.

This is the second time Steve comes to the podcast. Actually Steve was the winner of the ROS Award 2020 as the best ROS Developer of the world.

Congratulations and welcome to the podcast Steve!

Related links:

* Follow Steve Macenski on LinkedIn* Previous interview to Steve on the ROS Developers Podcast about SLAM Toolbox* ROS Developer Awards 2020* The ROS2 Navigation Stack* The ROS2 Marathon paper Steve presented at IROS2020* SLAM Toolbox* Behavior Trees implementation in ROS*