ROS Developers Podcast

Tully is the man behind the ROS maintenance. Of course, he is backed up with a team of ROS developers, some of which, we have already interviewed here in previous episodes. But we can say that Tully is the manager. In Spanish we would say that Tully is "el que corta el bacalao".

Get the show notes here: http://www.theconstructsim.com/rdp042-ros-developed-ros-platform-manager-tully-foote

Hi ROS Developers and welcome to the ROS Developers Podcast: the program, the podcast that gives you insights from the experts about how to program your robots with ROS.

This is Ricardo Tellez, from The Construct. Today, I would like to dedicate the podcast to all those ROS developers that are in charge of the whole development structure that allows a ROS developer create, test and debug his ROS programs under a safe net. Those developers that create all the Q&A mechanisms to prevent us from breaking functionalities. You are the thougher!

And the guest of today is one of those tough guys!

We are going to interview Victor Lopez, Software engineer at Pal Robotics. Victor has been working for more than 9 years at Pal Robotics developing software for the robots, and in the last 5 years, being in charge of the whole infrastructure of development for robots of Pal Robotics.

Interview to Alexander Rossler. Alexander is a solopreneur providing services for developing embedded systems and HMI at his company Roessler Systems. He has a very interesting blog called Machine Koder (with K) where he posts about development for robots us.

We are going to interview Omri Ben-Bassat from Tel Aviv, a self-taught programmer, hacker and robotics enthusiastic ever since joining the FIRST robotics competition team back in high school. Omri Ben-Bassat has created the vector-ros package, a package to ROSify the Anki Vector robot, you know, that super cute small robot made by Anki company. With this package, you can control the Anki robot using ROS programs.

We are going to interview Gonzalo Casas Software engineer at ETH Zurich. There, Gonzalo has developed the ROSlibPy a library that allows to create Python programs that can connect to ROS without having to install ROS in your system. It is very useful to interact from Windows or Mac machines with ROS robots

Davide is a fervent developer of tools for robotics. So this time, he is going to talk about another super useful tool that he has developed. It is called PlotJuggler. Let's learn with Davide what is PlotJuggler, how you can use and which are the best practices

Today we are going to talk with Mirko Bordignon, a co-manager of ROS-Industrial Consortium Europe. He is going to tell us about what is this consortium, what is its goal, and how you can use ROS with industrial robots by using the software they are release

Today, we are going to talk with Thilo Zimmermann, one of the leaders of the ROSin European Project, a project aiming to provide ROS-industrial quality assured robot software component.

The project has several components, and Thilo is going to teach us today which components are those and how can we contribute to them while getting some funding.