In this episode, Audrow Nash talks to Davide Faconti, the creator of BehaviorTree.CPP and Plotjuggler. BehaviorTree.CPP helps you organize complex robot behaviors, and PlotJuggler makes it easier for you to understand and debug robotic applications. The ROS community has widely adopted both BehaviorTree.CPP and PlotJuggler.
In this interview, you’ll learn about these projects and how to use them to be more productive. You’ll also know how Davide thinks about side projects so that you can build projects with more impact.

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EPISODE LINKS:
– Davide Faconti’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/facontidavide/?originalSubdomain=es}
– BehaviorTree.CPP’s website: https://behaviortree.github.io/BehaviorTree.CPP/}
– BehaviorTree.CPP’s Discourse: https://discourse.behaviortree.dev/}
– PlotJuggler’s website: https://www.plotjuggler.io/}

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OUTLINE:
– (0:00:00) Start
– (0:01:44) Introducing Davide Faconti
– (0:06:34) History of BehaviorTree.CPP
– (0:19:51) Explaining Behavior Trees
– (0:51:04) Orthogonality in Behavior trees
– (0:54:01) Handling events with behavior trees
– (0:57:12) Teasing BehaviorTree.CPP 4.0
– (0:59:40) PlotJuggler
– (1:10:10) Memes in PlotJuggler
– (1:14:50) Picking project scope
– (1:19:57) Business model + scaling
– (1:22:18) Thoughts on web technologies
– (1:23:32) Direction and ambitions
– (1:28:51) On having a side project
– (1:32:32) Lessons on starting open source project
– (1:36:55) Future of robotics
– (1:44:21) Links and contact info

SOCIAL:
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– Discourse: https://discourse.ros.org/c/sensethinkact/71}