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gbeuzeboc
25 September 2024

TurtleBot3 OpenCR firmware update from a snap

Article IoT

The TurtleBot3 robot is a standard platform robot in the ROS community, and it’s a reference that Canonical knows well, since we’ve used it in our tutorials. As a matter of fact, we use it to demonstrate some of our work, such as distributing a ROS stack through snaps. This robot embeds two boards, a

gbeuzeboc
25 September 2024

gbeuzeboc
15 June 2023

ROS architectures with snaps

Article Robotics

Choosing the right architecture can be hard, but we want to help. In this blog, we’ll look at different architectures and their pros and cons. We’ll also show you how to apply the chosen architecture to a mobile robot software stack with three essential apps. With this blogpost, we will see the different ROS architectures

gbeuzeboc
15 June 2023

gbeuzeboc
27 April 2023

Optimise your ROS snap – Part 6

Article Robotics

Welcome to Part 6 of our “Optimise your ROS snap” blog series. Make sure to check Part 5. This sixth and final part will  summarise every optimisation that we did. We will provide a critique for every optimisation that we tried along this series of blogs. Finally, we have reached the last part of this

gbeuzeboc
27 April 2023

gbeuzeboc
24 April 2023

Optimise your ROS snap – Part 5

Article Robotics

Welcome to Part 5 of our “Optimise your ROS snap” blog series. Make sure to check Part 4. This fifth part is going to cover two different optimisations. The first one, covers the compression algorithm. The second one, is about implementing extremely risky but efficient file deletion. We are going to present two...

gbeuzeboc
24 April 2023

gbeuzeboc
21 April 2023

Optimise your ROS snap – Part 4

Article Robotics

Welcome to Part 4 of our “optimise your ROS snap” blog series. Make sure to check Part 3 before. This fourth part is going to explain what dynamic library caching is. We will present how to use it to optimise ROS snaps, along with the different points to be careful about. Finally, we will apply

gbeuzeboc
21 April 2023

gbeuzeboc
17 April 2023

Optimise your ROS snap – Part 3

Article Robotics

Welcome to Part 3 of our “optimise your ROS snap” blog series. Make sure to check Part 2. This third part is going to present safe optimisations consisting of removing duplicates and unnecessary files. We will present three different methods as well as their cumulative benefits for the performance of ROS snaps. When snaps are

gbeuzeboc
17 April 2023

gbeuzeboc
11 April 2023

Optimise your ROS snap – Part 2

Article Robotics

Welcome to Part 2 of the “optimise your ROS snap” blog series. Make sure to check Part 1 before reading this blog post. This second part is going to present initial optimisations already used in the Gazebo snap. We will present the benefit that they could bring to our ROS snaps as well as the

gbeuzeboc
11 April 2023

gbeuzeboc
6 April 2023

Optimise your ROS snap – Part 1

Article Robotics

Do you want to optimise the performance of your ROS snap? We reduced the size of the installed Gazebo snap by 95%! This is how you can do it for your snap. Welcome to Part 1 of the “optimise your ROS snap” blog series. This series of 6 blogs will show the tools and methodologies

gbeuzeboc
6 April 2023

gbeuzeboc
22 September 2022

ROS orchestration with snaps

Article Robotics

Application orchestration is the process of integrating applications together to automate and synchronise processes. In robotics, this is essential, especially on complex systems that involve a lot of different processes working together. But, ROS applications are usually launched all at once from one top-level launch...

gbeuzeboc
22 September 2022

gbeuzeboc
20 July 2022

How to use ROS 2 shared memory in snaps

Article Robotics

If you already tried to package ROS 2 Foxy applications into snaps, you might have encountered the following error regarding shared memory: This log is stating that FastDDS (formerly known as FastRTPS) couldn’t create a file for the shared memory mechanism due to denied permission. Fortunately, FastDDS is smart enough...

gbeuzeboc
20 July 2022

gbeuzeboc
8 July 2022

Install Gazebo for ROS 2 in under a minute

Article Robotics

Recently, we announced the beta release of the Gazebo snap to help you install Gazebo for ROS 2. The gazebo snap is easy to install on dozens of Linux distributions and comes bundled with all the dependencies and the ROS 2 integration. It currently supports Gazebo Citadel and thus ROS 2 Foxy. For the sake

gbeuzeboc
8 July 2022