Foxglove

Visualized using Foxglove: A simulation of NASA’s Valkyrie humanoid lifting an item… perhaps in space? 🚀 NASA’s Valkyrie humanoid was designed and built by the Johnson Space Center (JSC) Engineering Directorate to be a robust, rugged, entirely electric humanoid robot capable of operating in degraded or damaged human-engineered environments. The robot is running #ROS and is equipped with a Carnegie Robotics MultiSense SL in head providing lidar depth, stereo depth, and monocular vision. It also has secondary head cameras, torso cameras, shin cameras, knee lidars, and six-axis force-torque sensors in feet. Actuation is provided by five series-elastic rotary actuators and two linear actuators in the arms; six finger and thumb actuators; five series-elastic rotary actuators in the upper legs and two in ankles; five series elastic rotary actuators drive the torso. In total, Valkyrie has 44 degrees of freedom – (Neck: 3 DoF; Arm: 4 DoF x 2; Wrist: 3 DoF x 2; Hand: 4 DoF x 2; Torso: 3 DoF, Leg: 6 DoF x 2; Ankle: 2 DoF x 2). You can keep track of and visualize all of these transforms by visualizing them in Foxglove. The Foxglove UI also allows you to easily tweak transform values to account for calibration or alignment offsets. When viewing a transform in the 3D panel go to panel settings> transforms> editable "On". Then go to the specific transform you're interested in and edit the ‘translation’ or ‘rotation’ offset. Keep in mind this will adjust the transform for visualization purposes only, it does not edit messages. This dataset was provided by Velin Dimitrov and Northeastern University. Link to the dataset in the comments. 👇 #DataViz #Analytics #Robotics

🚨 New speaker announcement: Jeremy Steward, Senior Software Engineer, Tangram Vision is ready to talk and rock at #Actuate2024 👋 Welcome, Jeremy, we're very much looking forward to your talk September 18. Get your tickets today hear what Jeremy has to say at Actuate! https://lnkd.in/gg5VZ6EM

🚨 New speaker announcement: Kalpana Seshadrinathan, Head of Deep Learning, Skydio has joined the #Actuate2024 speaker lineup! 👋 Welcome, Kalpana, we can't wait to learn from you on September 18. Get your tickets today and hear Kalpana speak at Actuate! https://buff.ly/3Rnfteb

🔦 Student Spotlight: The Véhicule Autonome Université Laval (VAUL) team, champions at the 15th Grand Prix in Yokohama, Japan during ICRA 2024. 🏆 The F1TENTH is an open-source platform for autonomous systems research and education. Students and researchers around the world use it to learn and experiment with perception, planning, and control by building an RC car 1/10th the size of an F1 car. Weighing around 4kg, their cars are capable of driving autonomously up to speeds of 12 m/s and enduring lateral accelerations of 5 m/s^2 while cornering. The car is equipped with a lidar, an IMU, and an on-board Jetson Orin NX that does all the calculations –external computing is not allowed in competition. To get real-time data from their car, they use the Foxglove bridge to stream data over a local websocket connection. The bridge handles local networking details so anyone on the team can use Foxglove to visualize data from and assess the performance of the car. A special thanks to William Fecteau, Tommy Bouchard Lebrun, Effie Daum, Jean-Michel Fortin, and Nicolas Lauzon from the VAUL team for helping put this article together. Link to the spotlight article, which includes a very cool sample dataset visualization using Foxglove, in the comments. 👇

🚨 Announcing several additions to the line up at Actuate 2024! 💜 This is the robotics & embodied AI conference of the year. Actuate is a one-day single-track event with speakers from some of the best robotic companies on the plant, like: Wayve Intrinsic Physical Intelligence Electric Sheep Skydio Blue River Technology Open Robotics Foxglove Tangram Vision Agility Robotics Scythe Robotics Open Navigation LLC Farm-ng Go to actuate.foxglove.dev today while there's still some tickets remaining. This is going to be a sold out event so don't miss out. 68 days to go! #Actuate2024 #Robotics

At Actuate 2024 Chris Lalancette from Intrinsic Open Robotics will be speaking about Zenoh and ROS 2. “To simplify deployment and debugging, the ROS 2 core team has spent a good part of the last year integrating Zenoh into ROS 2.” Sounds interesting, and maybe we can all stop fighting with DDS soon? Use code ADRIANSOCIAL for 25% discount on tickets. https://lnkd.in/gi_PNUEA

A big day for Chef Robotics. We’re very proud of everything that’s been accomplished and honored to continue to be a part of everything that’s to come!

Really excited for actuate! I'll be showcasing what it takes to make long horizon end2end systems work in the real world.

“For those of us working on robots with ROS middleware, it’s hard to beat the capability of Foxglove”. Val Schmidt, Lead at the Marine Robotics Department, Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping / NOAA-UNH Joint Hydrographic Center Check out the Foxglove + CCOM JHC case study to learn more. 💜 Read the case study 👉 https://lnkd.in/gaaYmxAq

We have more great speakers lined up for you at Actuate 2024 San Francisco! Hear from top robotics & embodied AI leaders about how they ship robots in production. Wayve Intrinsic Physical Intelligence Electric Sheep Skydio Blue River Technology Open Robotics Foxglove Tangram Vision Agility Robotics Scythe Robotics Open Navigation LLC Farm-ng Use code ADRIANSOCIAL for a 25% discount. https://lnkd.in/gaup-dm4