ROS Developers Podcast

That is why today, I would like to dedicate the episode to all the listeners of this podcast. It is thanks to you that are listening, that we can keep doing this podcast. Thanks to your support, to your comments, to your shares in the social networks, that our podcast has a reason of being.

Today, I would like to dedicate the episode to all those ROS developers that attended the ROSCON 2019 a couple of months ago. I can tell you that it was the best ROSCON ever. I hope that you enjoyed it as much as I did, and that you learned as much as I did. I mean, you can learn so much in such conference that at the end of the day you can feel how your brain cannot handle anymore. Amazing!

Today we are going to talk with one ROS student that attended to the last ROSCON thanks to the Diversity Scholarship that Open Robotics delivers. The ROSCON is the official ROS conference organised by Open Robotics.

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. We start by teaching you Linux and Python for robotics, and we continue teaching you all the basic ROS concepts required to become a master of ROS. We conclude with a course that teaches you how to build your own robot and how to ROSify it, add ROS control to it so you can finally become a ROS Developer. I'll put a link to the academy in the show notes: www.robotigniteacademy.com

So now, it is my pleasure to introduce you to Drashti Patel. Drashti is Master student of the Master of Science and computer engineering of the New Jersey Institute of Technology in New York. There she also works as teaching assistant. She is a ROS developer specialized in Embedded systems and SLAM. Let's talk with her about her experience in her first ROSCON.

Welcome to the podcast Drashti!

Show notes here: http://www.theconstructsim.com/ros-in-micro-controllers-using-u-ros-with-borja-outerelo

Today, I would like to dedicate the episode to all those ROS developers that are figuring out new ways to use ROS. We know ROS is used in a robot with a computer that runs Linux Ubuntu and we program in C++ or Python. That's it. But then, there are a lot of people thinking about how to use ROS in Windows machines, or ROS in a micro controller, or ROS on a fridge!!! Well, that episode is dedicated to you (call me if you are putting ROS on a fridge!!)

Today we are going to talk with one of the persons leading the development o micro-ROS. What is micro-ROS? For what can we use it? Well, those are the questions that we are going to have answered today.

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. We start by teaching you Linux and Python for robotics, and we continue teaching you all the basic ROS concepts required to become a master of ROS. We conclude with a course that teaches you how to build your own robot and how to ROSify it, add ROS control to it so you can finally become a ROS Developer.

By the way, have you checked our latest course about how to program web interfaces for robots. That is a course that teaches you how to build web pages that connects to to ROS robots and allows us to present information on the screen and also command the robot. Check it out because it is a very good course pioneer in the world: www.robotigniteacademy.com

So now, it is my pleasure to introduce you to Borja Outerelo. Borja is a senior software engineer at eProsima, the company that develops the protocol underneath u-ROS. Borja is going to explain us what is micro-ROS, what is this protocol about, for what should we use it and how can we start testing it and doing our experiments.

Today we are going to talk with Joe Speed from ADLink, one of the companies that are pushing ROS 2 forward with their DDS implementation: Cyclone DDS.

Today we are going to talk with the person behind the development of ROS for Windows, Lou Amadio.

Lou is Principal Development Lead in the core operating system group at Microsoft focusing on robotics and autonomous systems. I presume that that role is the one that leads him to get interested in ROS, but we are going to know about it in this interview.