ROS 2 Foxy with Eclipse Cyclone DDS

Hi All,

I hope you and those closest to you are staying safe. For obvious reasons, it has been some time since our group has met. However, I'm happy to announce a Virtual Philly ROS Meetup for July! This month we will be joined by our colleagues from ADLINK to discuss ROS 2 Foxy and Eclipse Cyclone DDS.

As noted above, this meeting is virtual. We will be hosting this meeting on Google Meet (https://meet.google.com/). To RSVP, you will have to join our Meetup group. Once you RSVP, you will be given the link to the meeting. The meeting is scheduled for 12 PM EST as our guest speakers are located in both Europe and the West Coast of the US. This start time was determined as the most equitable. We hope you will take a lunch break to hear the latest updates on Cyclone straight from two of the key people behind the technology.

ABSTRACT:

Eclipse Cyclone DDS is a Tier 1 ROS middleware for ROS 2 (https://www.ros.org/reps/rep-2000.html#foxy-fitzroy-may-2020-may-2023). It seeks to give the easiest, smallest, fastest, and most reliable ROS 2 experience. Let the Cyclone blow you away!

Eclipse Cyclone DDS is built into ROS 2 and Autoware autonomous driving. It is a project of Eclipse IoT and OpenADx (https://openadx.eclipse.org) autonomous driving WGs. It is a next generation implementation of the OMG Data Distribution Service (DDS) specification (http://www.omg.org/spec/DDS/) and the related specifications for interoperability (http://www.omg.org/spec/DDSI-RTPS/).

Eclipse Cyclone DDS adopters include Arm, Autoware, Bosch, Box Robotics, Intel, Open Robotics, Ouster, and many more. See: https://iot.eclipse.org/adopters/#iot.cyclonedds

In this Philly ROS Virtual Meetup, Eclipse Cyclone DDS lead committer, Erik Boasson, and ROS 2 TSC member, Joe Speed, will present the current state of Cyclone and ROS 2 integration. They will look at Cyclone's advantages and give an insider's view on ways to tune Cyclone DDS for various workloads in ROS 2 Foxy. Additionally, Erik and Joe will give a preview of what is in development and what is coming in ROS 2.

ABOUT OUR SPEAKERS:

Erik Boasson is the driving force behind Eclipse Cyclone DDS. Having started his career by single-handedly building the proto-DDS implementation that played a key role in convincing the US DoD to mandate data-centric systems, this project brings him back to his roots, but with two decades of additional experience.

Joe Speed is Field CTO at ADLINK and a member of the ROS 2 and Autoware TSCs. Joe has spent his career developing and advocating for open-source at organizations to include IBM and the Linux Foundation. Among his accomplishments, Joe helped make MQTT an open standard and open-source. However, he's most proud of his contributions to accessible autonomous mobility for the elderly and disabled: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjP6aRtuEv4