Nov 19, 2019
Today, we are continuing with the series of podcast interviews that we did at ROSCON. Also I would like to dedicate the episode to those ROS developers that do not use ROS on Ubuntu.
Today we are going to talk with the A team of people that work a Canonical, you know, the company behind the development of Ubuntu.
But before going into that, let me remind you about our ROS online academy. Yes, at the Construct we have created an online academy named The Robot Ignite Academy which contains a ROS learning path for beginners. We start by teaching you Linux and Python for robotics, and we continue teaching you all the basic ROS concepts required to become a master of ROS. We conclude with a course that teaches you how to build your own robot and how to ROSify it, add ROS control to it so you can finally become a ROS Developer.
I’ll put a link to the academy in the show notes. www.robotigniteacademy.com
So now, it is my pleasure to introduce you Jeremy Deray and Dragan Stancevic, two guys from Canonical that are attending here to the ROSCON
Jeremie is a software developer at robotics team of canonical, ROS developer with several years experience building ROS software for humanoid robots, and Dragan is robotics security engineer at canonical, responsive for securing ROS
Welcome to the podcast Jeremie and Dragan!
- What do you do at canonical? What is the relation of your work with ROS?
- Why so many people from Canonical here at the ROSCON? Are you presenting something?
- Is there a special team dedicated to everything related to ROS?
- What is the problem of real time in robotics and how Ubuntu handles that at present?
- How can we work with Ubuntu in simpler computers? Any versions of Ubuntu for smaller machines, like Raspberry Pi? Anything available for micro-controllers?
- What are snaps and why are they important for robotics?
- What other projects related to robotics is Canonical working at?
- Recently Canonical joined the ROS 2 technical steering committee. What is your role there?
- Anything special for ROS 2 from Canonical?