Time for another ROS meetup?

[Adrian Apps]

Hi All,

I've been thinking it's time for another ROS meetup, so how does the 3rd May suit everyone? 

Place to be determined but a couple of our options are: 

- Robots and Dinosaurs @ Meadowbank; or

- RoboDojo @ Campbelltown.

Thoughts, things that you'd like to see covered? 

I'm planning on rebuilding my laptop so will be curious to see what has changed in the latest updates. Also this time around I have a Turtlebot 2, so have some hardware to bring along on the day.

Cheers,

Adrian

[Alex McClung]

Yes I'm definitely keen for another ROS meetup, but Ill be in Perth that weekend, I think I'm free all the other weekends in May, do any of those suit?

Alex

[Adrian Apps]

I'm free every weekend at this stage other than the 17th May. Just wanted to put something far enough out there notice-wise so everyone can put it in their calendars. 

So how about the 10th May people?

Adrian

[Gav]

That sounds like a plan. RnD is happy to host if that suits. I can't make the 10th, but other than that I'm free. 

ROS has had a couple of nice changes recently, there's a 'frontier exploration' plugin I've been waiting on. If you've already got your mapping (SLAM) set up like in the workshop, it allows you to automatically generate move_base commands to the edges of the map where it can acquire new data. 

http://wiki.ros.org/frontier_exploration

There's also a new 2D simulator that looks nice:

http://wiki.ros.org/stdr_simulator

I'll be off to the ICRA robotics conference at the end of May, so I'll report back on what robotic goodies are coming out :-)

[Adrian Apps]

Looks as if I won't be able to do this weekend after all. So can I suggest that with Gav going away at the end of May we move the meetup to June some time (perhaps 7th?) so that he can report on all the new tech out there.

On Monday, 14 April 2014 17:15:13 UTC+10, Gav wrote:

That sounds like a plan. RnD is happy to host if that suits. I can't make the 10th, but other than that I'm free. 

ROS has had a couple of nice changes recently, there's a 'frontier exploration' plugin I've been waiting on. If you've already got your mapping (SLAM) set up like in the workshop, it allows you to automatically generate move_base commands to the edges of the map where it can acquire new data. 

http://wiki.ros.org/frontier_exploration

There's also a new 2D simulator that looks nice:

http://wiki.ros.org/stdr_simulator

I'll be off to the ICRA robotics conference at the end of May, so I'll report back on what robotic goodies are coming out :-)

[Gav]

That's probably a good plan. 

I'll be overseas for a bit after ICRA, visiting a few people and hackerspaces. How about Saturday June the 28th at Robodino? That'll give me a bit of time after getting back to get some stuff in order to show. 

Anybody got any particular interests I should look out for? I'll try and grab some glossy brochures on various hardware and software stuff as usual. 

Cheers,

Gavin 

[Alex McClung]

I think I'm free on both of those dates, whatever suits.

Definitely keen to get working on my Robot again and get back down (been busy with school), also keen to check out what everyone else has been up to and hear about some of the "robotic goodies" at ICRA. :-)

Cheers,

Alex

[Adrian Apps]

So June 28th it is. 

Maybe bring back a PR2 or similar? :D