[19-21 October 2022] ROSCon 22

[cristidragomir97]

Prerequisites

Event Name

ROSCon2022

Type

Conference

Focus / Event Nice / Target Audience

Robotics Developer

Medium

Hybrid

Location

Kyoto, Japan

Date

19-21 October 2022

CFP and last date

Yes (Applied) - June 9th, 2022

Talk title

1. Canonical was wrong ! ROS and docker ARE indeed a good fit, here's why
2. ros-io, a hardware abstraction layer for electronics
3. Using balenaBlocks to simplify prototyping and deployment of robot solutions

Duration

1. 10 minutes
2. 20 minutes
3. 30 minutes

Description

1. Canonical was wrong ! ROS and docker ARE indeed a good fit, here's why

Last year, Canonical published an article called "ROS Docker; 6 reasons why they are not a good fit" https://ubuntu.com/blog/ros-docker

Their arguments are centered around the danger of using privileged containers to talk to external hardware, the lack of transactional and delta updates as well as complaining about the difficulty of configuring networking.

This talk will not only give technical counter-arguments on why they are wrong but also give a few arguments on why it’s easier, more secure and in general a better experience to use docker containers to prototype and deploy ROS-based robotics solutions.

2. ros-io, a hardware abstraction layer for electronics

We are living on a global chip shortage. Some of the under development ROS projects do not have some specific sensors or actuators due the shortage. We aim to solve that by creating a hardware abstraction layer for modules that are connected to I2C, UART and GPIO interfaces. This allows makers to prototype much faster, and companies the ability to replace hardware with available options, without changing their code-base. This reduces friction by eliminating the need to write low-level code, firmware or ROS nodes and replaces it with a config file similar to the way docker-compose works.

3. Using balenaBlocks to simplify prototyping and deployment of robot solutions

In this talk we are going to explore how using balenaBlocks can speed up prototyping, make your code more reusable, and bring in network effects in the community, all while making it extremely easy to deploy and provision devices. We are going to go through the advantages of using containers for robotics, and how to do that in the most efficient way possible. We are also going to show you how to develop and configure robots using just one file: docker-compose.yaml

Full content of all three talks available on google docs

Hardware Needed

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[iayanpahwa]

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