Hi ROS Developers and welcome to the ROS Developers Podcast: the program, the podcast that gives you insights from the experts about how to program your robots with ROS.

In this episode, I talk to Dirk Thomas about ROS2 and some other details about development tools of ROS 1.

He will explain about:

• Why roscd bring us to the devel directory instead of to the compilation directory.
• Why they decided to change from rosbuild to catkin_make
• What can be used ROS buildfarm for
• Why ROS2 is necessary
• How to use the ros1_bridge to connect ROS1 programs with ROS 2 ones
• Some examples of ROS2 applications already working
• What is the ROS2 roadmap
• … and many more things

Selected quote from the interview:

With ROS2, the communication protocol is DDS which allows a completely distributed system. The main advantage is that you don’t have a central instance being the unique point of failure.

Dirk Thomas

Dirk Thomas talks about ROS2 for the ROS Developers Podcast

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Related links:

• Follow Dirk Thomas on LinkedIn
• ROS2 online course for beginners
• Catkin compilation tool
• ROS buildfarm
• ROS Nodelets in ROS 1
• ROS Discourse (notifications about novelties in ROS)
• ROS answers (the forum for questions and answers about ROS)
• ROS 2 Ardent: first ROS 2 non-beta! (for installation)
• Rviz visualization tools for ROS
• ROS2 to ROS1 bridge (and vice-versa)
• Demonstration of using Cartographer (navigation system) with ROS2 with a Turtlebot
• ROS2 wiki
• ROS2 roadmap
• ROS2 presentation given at the ROSCon2017 by Dirk Thomas and Mikael Arguedas
• The Robot Ignite Academy online academy that teaches you ROS in 5 days

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