WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:12.960 So I wanted to talk about all my frustrations with a robot operating system and my experience 00:12.960 --> 00:15.640 building Ross Powell robots. 00:15.640 --> 00:19.680 So first of all, I think Ross is great for academia and industry. 00:19.680 --> 00:25.640 So if you think about universities, they're often you can improve a small component. 00:25.640 --> 00:28.440 And you can just focus all your time work on that. 00:28.440 --> 00:31.320 Then getting the whole stack for free is amazing. 00:31.320 --> 00:36.320 In industry, you can spend a lot of time, like actually get paid to learn how to use things. 00:36.320 --> 00:40.760 And you get a very powerful stack for free. 00:40.760 --> 00:45.720 However, I think a lot of spare time hobbyists have different needs than the groups which 00:45.720 --> 00:48.280 Ross is currently addressing very well. 00:48.280 --> 00:53.400 And when I think about myself as a robot hobbyist, I often notice I'm more budget-constrained 00:53.400 --> 00:55.040 and that makes Ross harder. 00:55.040 --> 00:58.160 I often want to have something move as fast as possible. 00:58.160 --> 01:02.520 And I want to have Ross as a high level platform for new behaviors. 01:02.520 --> 01:07.520 So what I want to do in this talk is give some insights into what problems hobby robots 01:07.520 --> 01:10.640 system might encounter. 01:10.640 --> 01:15.080 Maybe we can as Ross community think a bit about how we can better cater to them. 01:15.080 --> 01:20.480 And I also want to introduce a new Ross package for an affordable robot to make robotics 01:20.480 --> 01:23.400 easier to get into. 01:23.400 --> 01:29.200 So first of all, for the robotics on a budget, if you're asking people, like whenever 01:29.200 --> 01:34.440 people say, hey, I want to get into robotics, often you tell them, hey, why not use Ross? 01:34.440 --> 01:38.680 And the absolute best way, playing with the P.D. games. 01:38.680 --> 01:43.640 Now, the absolute best way to get into Ross is buying one of the third robots, which cost 01:43.640 --> 01:52.880 740 euros or 3.2 for the third of all four, but that's quite steep to get into a new 01:53.000 --> 01:57.920 hobby in my opinion, whereas something like the F.M. Rover, this one, I'm actually doing 01:57.920 --> 02:01.320 it off, and it's on table. 02:01.320 --> 02:03.960 So something like this only costs 100 euros. 02:03.960 --> 02:08.080 You need to have your own Raspberry Pi, but I think everyone who is interested in robotics 02:08.080 --> 02:09.720 probably already has one. 02:09.720 --> 02:13.200 So this is way cheaper to get into this new hobby. 02:13.200 --> 02:19.880 So I made Ross two package in preparation for the stock for this robot. 02:19.880 --> 02:24.280 The other thing which I often notice when talking about Ross and when working with Ross 02:24.280 --> 02:29.640 is that my goal, as I hope, is that what I think makes Robotics fun, is have anything 02:29.640 --> 02:31.240 move as fast as possible, right? 02:31.240 --> 02:36.280 You want to be able to drive to a room, you don't really care about his going straight line 02:36.280 --> 02:37.280 or not. 02:37.280 --> 02:43.160 However, if you take a look at the tutorials and like Ross website, you start with Odyssey or 02:43.160 --> 02:47.360 I-Tools or the Klein libraries to be fair, it's a good start because you're going to spend 02:47.360 --> 02:51.240 all your time debugging this stuff, but it's not very fun. 02:51.240 --> 02:56.040 It would be more fun if we can get people started with anything which moves a bit. 02:56.040 --> 03:00.720 And then you can start introducing them to, if you want to improve this, this is what 03:00.720 --> 03:06.200 you need to know about topics, this is what you need to know about publishes and subscribers. 03:06.200 --> 03:11.320 But there is material out there which helps you, like for example, the construct makes 03:11.320 --> 03:15.840 great tutorials, where at least you can very quickly see a robot in simulation. 03:15.840 --> 03:21.760 I still want people to actually have something physical moving through the living room. 03:21.760 --> 03:27.720 And the last point for me is I want to see Ross more even more as a high level platform. 03:27.720 --> 03:32.680 So I think as hobbyist, you want to be creative, you want to make a robot which brings 03:32.680 --> 03:37.600 you beer or a cloud mat, and you don't want to end up debugging in your roster, which 03:37.680 --> 03:41.200 is what's happening in practice to be honest. 03:41.200 --> 03:48.760 And I think that a lot of their roles, components, are very high level, but you need to 03:48.760 --> 03:55.120 have like a laser scanner, have like a map of your house, leg of this is quite well. 03:55.120 --> 03:58.560 There's also some good tools like FoxLaw, which help you get insights into your set 03:58.560 --> 04:03.120 quite quickly, so more of those components would really help us. 04:03.200 --> 04:09.880 If you want to use my package, when preparing this talk, I create a package for these robots. 04:09.880 --> 04:14.880 I hope it can lower the entry bar into robotics and it can be in a affordable start into 04:14.880 --> 04:16.400 your robotics journey. 04:16.400 --> 04:20.720 You can find it here, reach out to me, help me to ignore person. 04:20.720 --> 04:21.720 Yeah, that's it. 04:21.720 --> 04:22.720 Thank you very much.