News

ROS 2 Humble Hawksbill Release

Source: Open Robotics, May 25, 2022 [1]
Humble Hawksbill is a long-term support (LTS) release that will be supported until May 2027. This is the first ROS 2 release on Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish). Humble support three Tier 1 operating systems: Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish (both arm64 and amd64 architectures) and Windows 10.

Improve Perception Performance for ROS 2 Applications with NVIDIA Isaac Transport for ROS

Source: NVIDIA Technical Blog, May 24, 2022 [2]
NVIDIA and Open Robotics are introducing two important changes to the Humble ROS 2 release for improved performance. The new ROS 2 Humble hardware-acceleration features are called type adaptation and type negotiation. These additions will significantly increase performance for developers seeking to incorporate AI/machine learning and computer vision functionality.

FogROS brings robotic cloud computing to the Robot Operating System

Source: TechCrunch, May 23, 2022 [3]
FogROS is a cloud-based platform for offloading robotic tasks to a remote server. It's part of the latest version of the open source Robotic Operating System, ROS 2 Humble Hawksbill. Advances to server-side computing can also be applied to robotics operations.

The ‘substantial contributions’ Intel has promised to boost RISC-V adoption

Source: The Register, May 17, 2022 [4]
Intel will contribute to RISC-V as part of its bet that the instruction set architecture will fuel growth for its revitalized contract chip manufacturing business. The chipmaker also launched a $1 billion innovation fund that will support chip designers, including those making components.

NVIDIA Partners Announce Wave of New Jetson AGX Orin Servers and Appliances at COMPUTEX

Source: NVIDIA Blog, May 23, 2022 [5]
NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin-powered production systems unveiled at COMPUTEX in Taipei. Jetson Orin packs 8x processing power of predecessor, NVIDIA AGX Xavier, in the same pin-compatible form factor. New products are coming from Taiwan-based camera, sensor and hardware providers for use in edge AI, robotics and embedded applications.

Nvidia promises annual updates across CPU, GPU, DPU lines

Source: The Register, May 24, 2022 [6]
Nvidia will introduce a new GPU architecture every two years. Products will be updated in years between the release of new architectures. Intel is again delaying a planned entry to the discrete GPU market.

From Cloud to Car: How NIO Develops Intelligent Vehicles on NVIDIA HGX

Source: NVIDIA Blog, May 20, 2022 [7]
Electric vehicle maker NIO is using NVIDIA HGX to build a data center infrastructure for developing AI-powered, software-defined vehicles. With high-performance compute, the automaker can continuously iterate on sophisticated deep learning models. The company has already launched its fully electric, intelligent flagship sedan, the ET7.

AMD to use Google Cloud for enhancing chip design workloads

Source: TechHQ, May 23, 2022 [8]
AMD will run electronic design automation (EDA) for its chip-design workloads on Google Cloud, , which is expected to further extend the on-premises capabilities of AMD data centers.

Intel takes the SYCL to NVIDIA's CUDA with migration tool

Source: The Next Platform, May 20, 2022 [9]
Intel's cross-platform OneAPI aims to simplify development across a broad range of compute engines. The effort, which Intel built as an open standard, comes with a variety of toolkits. There are many things Intel needs to get right with OneAPI if it wants to compete with Nvidia's CUDA.

ROS 2 Humble

ROS 2 Humble in AMD KR260 with Yocto

Source: Acceleration Robotics, May 24, 2022 [10]
This article provides a walkthrough on how to build a Linux operating system with ROS 2 Humble for the AMD KR260 board

ROS 2 Humble in AMD KV260 with Yocto

Source: Acceleration Robotics, May 24, 2022 [11]
This article provides a walkthrough on how to build a Linux operating system with ROS 2 Humble for the AMD KV260 board

ROS 2 Humble in AMD ZCU104 with Yocto

Source: Acceleration Robotics, May 24, 2022 [12]
ROS 2 Humble is the latest LTS of the Robot Operating System (ROS), the de facto framework for robot application development. Yocto and ROS 2 allow you to build custom Linux-based production-grade operating systems for robots that obtain best performance for your use case.

ROS 2 Humble in AMD ZCU102 with Yocto

Source: Acceleration Robotics, May 24, 2022 [13]
This article provides a walkthrough on how to build a Linux operating system with ROS 2 Humble for the AMD ZCU102 board.

ROS 2 Humble in NVIDIA Jetson Nano with Yocto

Source: Acceleration Robotics, May 24, 2022 [14]
This article provides a walkthrough on how to build a Linux operating system with ROS 2 Humble for the NVIDIA Jetson Nano board

ROS 2 Humble in NVIDIA Jetson AGX Xavier with Yocto

Source: Acceleration Robotics, May 24, 2022 [15]
This article provides a walkthrough on how to build a Linux operating system with ROS 2 Humble for the NVIDIA Jetson AGX Xavier board

ROS 2 Humble in Microchip PolarFire Icicle Kit with Yocto

Source: Acceleration Robotics, May 24, 2022 [16]
This article provides a walkthrough on how to build a Linux operating system with ROS 2 Humble for the Microchip PolarFire Icicle Kit board

Papers

RobotCore: An Open Architecture for Hardware Acceleration in ROS 2

Source: Acceleration robotics, May 8, 2022 [17]
Hardware acceleration can revolutionize robotics,enabling new applications by speeding up robot response times while remaining power-efficient. However, the diversity of acceleration options makes it difficult for roboticists to easily deploy accelerated systems without expertise in each specific hardware platform.

FogROS 2: An Adaptive and Extensible Platform for Cloud and Fog Robotics Using ROS 2

Source: Acceleration robotics, May , 2022 [18]
FogROS2 allows roboticists to launch parts of their ROS 2 computational graphs into the cloud while addressing interoperability and scalability issues. Accelerate your ROS graphs with the cloud.

Previous Hardware Acceleration in Robotics Newsletters

Past ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration Working Group meetings

  1. Open robotics (2022, May 25). Open Robotics. https://www.openrobotics.org/blog/2022/5/24/ros-2-humble-hawksbill-release ↩︎

  2. Andrews, G. (2022, May 24). Improve perception performance for ROS 2 applications with NVIDIA Isaac transport for ROS. NVIDIA Technical Blog. https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/improve-perception-performance-for-ros-2-applications-with-nvidia-isaac-transport-for-ros/ ↩︎

  3. Heater, B. (2022, May 23). FogROS brings robotic cloud computing to the robot operating system – TechCrunch. TechCrunch. https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/23/fogros-brings-robotic-cloud-computing-to-the-robot-operating-system/ ↩︎

  4. Martin, D. (2022, May 17). Intel promises ‘substantial contributions’ to RISC-V growth. The Register: Enterprise Technology News and Analysis. https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/17/intel_riscv_contributions/ ↩︎

  5. Peddireddy, D. (2022, May 23). NVIDIA partners announce new Jetson AGX Orin servers and appliances at COMPUTEX. NVIDIA Blog. https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2022/05/23/computex-jetson-orin-agx/ ↩︎

  6. Sharwood, S. (2022, May 24). Nvidia promises annual datacenter product updates. The Register: Enterprise Technology News and Analysis. https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/24/nvidia_enterprise_product_release_cadence/ ↩︎

  7. Ferchau, J. (2022, May 20). How NIO develops intelligent vehicles on NVIDIA HGX. NVIDIA Blog. https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2022/05/20/nio-develops-nvidia-hgx/ ↩︎

  8. Raj, A. (2022, May 23). AMD to use Google cloud for enhancing chip design workloads. TechHQ. https://techhq.com/2022/05/amd-to-use-google-cloud-for-enhancing-chip-design-workloads/ ↩︎

  9. Intel takes the SYCL to Nvidia’s CUDA with migration tool. (2022, May 20). The Next Platform. https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/05/20/intel-takes-the-sycl-to-nvidias-cuda-with-migration-tool/ ↩︎

  10. Mayoral, V. (2022, May 24). ROS 2 Humble in AMD KR260 with Yocto. Hardware Acceleration in Robotics. https://news.accelerationrobotics.com/ros-2-humble-in-amd-kr260/ ↩︎

  11. Mayoral, V. (2022, May 24). ROS 2 Humble in AMD KV260 with Yocto. Hardware Acceleration in Robotics. https://news.accelerationrobotics.com/ros-2-humble-in-amd-kv260-with-yocto/ ↩︎

  12. Mayoral, V. (2022, May 24). ROS 2 humble in AMD ZCU104 with Yocto. Hardware Acceleration in Robotics. https://news.accelerationrobotics.com/ros-2-humble-in-amd-zcu104-with-yocto/ ↩︎

  13. Mayoral, V. (2022, May 24). ROS 2 Humble in AMD ZCU102 with Yocto. Hardware Acceleration in Robotics. https://news.accelerationrobotics.com/ros-2-humble-in-amd-zcu102-with-yocto/ ↩︎

  14. Mayoral, V. (2022, May 24). ROS 2 Humble in NVIDIA Jetson Nano with Yocto. Hardware Acceleration in Robotics. https://news.accelerationrobotics.com/ros-2-humble-in-nvidia-jetson-nano-with-yocto/ ↩︎

  15. Mayoral, V. (2022, May 24). ROS 2 Humble in NVIDIA Jetson AGX Xavier with Yocto. Hardware Acceleration in Robotics. https://news.accelerationrobotics.com/ros-2-humble-in-nvidia-xavier-agx-with-yocto/ ↩︎

  16. Mayoral, V. (2022, May 24). ROS 2 Humble in Microchip PolarFire Icicle Kit with Yocto. Hardware Acceleration in Robotics. https://news.accelerationrobotics.com/ros-2-humble-in-microchip-polarfire-icicle-kit-with-yocto/ ↩︎

  17. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2205.03929.pdf. (2022, May 8). arXiv.org e-Print archive. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2205.03929.pdf ↩︎

  18. Ichnowski, J., Chen, K., Dharmarajan, K., Adebola, S., Danielczuk, M., Mayoral, V., Zhan, H., Xu, D., Ghassemi, R., Kubiatowicz, J., Stoica, I., Gonzalez, J., & Goldberg, K. (2022, May 19). FogROS 2: An Adaptive and Extensible Platform for Cloud and Fog Robotics Using ROS 2. arXiv.org e-Print archive. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2205.09778.pdf ↩︎