Taking ROS-Industrial and ROS 2 Training to Boston

In mid-October, my colleague, Lily Baye-Wallace, and I made trip out to Analog Devices in Boston, Massachusetts to provide ROS 2 training to members of our ROS-Industrial community. Analog Devices, a full ROS-Industrial Consortium member took advantage of the ability to host a ROS-I training event, bringing ROS-I training to the East Coast.

From ROS 2 basics and fundamentals to a new image processing pipeline exercise, our attendees were able to explore the many different aspects and capabilities of both ROS 2 and ROS-Industrial as well as explore the beautiful historic city of Boston.

The Analog Devices “Analog Garage”

We had many attendees fly in from across the country this week (and even a few international ones!) to hear us talk about ROS and its importance to the robotic community around the world. Beginning with the basics of how to set up a ROS workspace, we led the students through various exercises designed to guide them through the process of how to set up a ROS environment and incorporate it into their various projects. Other content included using MoveIt! for motion planning and how to create a URDF. Our recently updated advance topic, Building a Perception Pipeline, taught the students how to use several tools within the Point Cloud Library (PCL) to filter and segment camera data to be used with their robots.

Overall, this was a great way to engage with members of the robotics community and share some of our knowledge and expertise with them. All of our training material can be found on our ROS-Industrial Training wiki. We hope to see you at our next training event in Febuary 2023 in San Antonio, TX!

Note: If you are interested in learning more about hosting a ROS-Industrial Consortium training event, reach out to a team member!