ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration Workshop | ROSCon 2022

[vmayoral]

The objective of this ticket is to discuss and coordinate the upcoming proposal the HAWG will submit for a workshop during ROSCon 2022.

Important aspects:

• deadline: 2022-05-06
• Title (maximum 70 characters)
• Presenter(s) (name and affiliation)
• Summary - for public consumption, used in the program schedule (maximum 100 words)
• Description - outline and goals, for review by the program committee. Describe the intended audience and what resources (if any) would be required. Please be sure to include enough information in your proposal for the program committee to evaluate the above review criteria

Topics desired:

• ROS 2 hardware acceleration (FPGA, GPU and in any other compute substrate)
• Compute architectures in robotics
• Use cases demanding hardware acceleration

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• Title: ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration Workshop
• Presenter(s):
  • (TBD: compile final list and add presenters)
• Summary: The decline of Moore’s Law and Dennard Scaling limit the performance of ROS computational graphs in traditional CPU computing. This positions hardware acceleration as an important emerging solution to achieve higher performance and power efficiency. To do so, compute platforms must map ROS graphs efficiently to CPUs, but also to specialized hardware including FPGAs and GPUs. This workshop discusses the status of hardware acceleration in ROS 2. We'll summarize the progress of the Hardware Acceleration WG delivering speedups for both single ROS nodes and complete graphs, discuss computing architectures in robotics and present various ROS use cases demanding hardware acceleration.
• Description: WIP

[vmayoral]

Skipped this time due to a lack of resources.