Steve Macenski's guest appearances

Steve Macenski

The ROS Developers Podcast

Sense Think Act Podcast

Automate It

Dave Coleman

Brett Aldrich

Michael Ferguson

Christian Fritz

Tim Chung

Olivier Michel

Lou Amadio

Roger Barga

Raffaello Bonghi

Greg Epps

Simon Steinmann

Gerard Canal

Michael Cashmore

Wolf Vollprecht

Tully Foote

OwlTail

On episode 18 - it's our first guest! Steve Macenski, Chief Navigator for ROS2 joins Ilia for a deep dive on the open source robotics community. They get into where the community is today, what contributions Steve would like to see, and where he thinks the community is headed. It's an in-depth technical discussion for all you die hard roboticists out there.   Questions? You can tag Steve on https://answers.ros.org/questions/ or on the Nav2 Slack channel: navigation2.slack.com.

On episode 18 - it's our first guest! Steve Macenski, Chief Navigator for ROS2 joins Ilia for a deep dive on the open source robotics community. They get into where the community is today, what contributions Steve would like to see, and where he thinks the community is headed. It's an in-depth technical discussion for all you die hard roboticists out there. Questions? You can tag Steve on <a href="https://answers.ros.org/questions/" rel="noopener noreferer nofollow" target="_blank">https://answers.ros.org/questions/</a> or on the Nav2 Slack channel: <a href="http://navigation2.slack.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">navigation2.slack.com.</a>

Ep 18 - The Top Contributions Open Source Robotics Needs Now (Steve Macenski, Chief Navigator for ROS2)

In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks to Steve Macenski, who is the Open Source Robotics Engineering Lead at Samsung Research America. Steve leads the Nav2 project, which is an open source robot navigation framework. In this conversation, they talk about the problem and challenges of robot navigation, how Nav2 works at a high level, hybrid planners, and about Steve’s experience working with the Nav2 community.EPISODE LINKS:– Nav2’s Website: https://navigation.ros.org/– Steve’s Website: https://www.steve.macenski.com/– Steve’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steve–macenski–41a985101/– Samsung Research’s Website: https://research.samsung.com/PODCAST INFO:– Podcast website: https://sensethinkact.com– Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sense–think–act/id1582090036– Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/52wK4oMDvgijRk6E82tC5d– RSS: https://sensethinkact.com/itunes.xml– Full episodes: https://www.youtube.com/c/SenseThinkActPodcast– Clips: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChfnCpNwZzYtZ32J–pZvNDgOUTLINE:– (0:00:00) Start– (0:00:39) Introducing Steve and Nav2– (0:01:07) History of the navigation stack and Nav2– (0:06:10) What problems does Nav2 solve?– (0:08:05) How Nav2, MoveIt, and ROS Control relate– (0:10:59) Challenges in navigation– (0:14:22) Working in a grid world– (0:24:36) Motion primitives– (0:40:26) Potential fields– (0:46:12) Unknown maps– (0:48:03) Relating paths to wheel velocities– (0:50:55) When is Pathplanning used?– (0:52:57) Hybrid planners– (0:54:59) Changing environments– (0:57:11) Behavior trees– (1:01:42) Behavior tree example– (1:06:16) Behavior trees versus alternatives– (1:08:19) Nav2 and SLAM– (1:10:41) Nav2 for different types of surface environments– (1:13:27) Experience with the Nav2 community– (1:18:02) Open Source as a business model– (1:19:09) Getting involved– (1:22:29) Career adviceSOCIAL:– Twitter: https://twitter.com/sense_think_act– Discourse: https://discourse.ros.org/c/sensethinkact/71

In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks to Steve Macenski, who is the Open Source Robotics Engineering Lead at Samsung Research America. Steve leads the Nav2 project, which is an open source robot navigation framework. In this conversation, they talk about the problem and challenges of robot navigation, how Nav2 works at a high level, hybrid planners, and about Steve’s experience working with the Nav2 community. EPISODE LINKS: – Nav2’s Website: <a href="https://navigation.ros.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://navigation.ros.org/</a> – Steve’s Website: <a href="https://www.steve.macenski.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.steve.macenski.com/</a> – Steve’s LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/steve–macenski–41a985101/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/steve–macenski–41a985101/</a> – Samsung Research’s Website: <a href="https://research.samsung.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://research.samsung.com/</a> PODCAST INFO: – Podcast website: <a href="https://sensethinkact.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://sensethinkact.com</a> – Apple Podcasts: <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sense–think–act/id1582090036" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sense–think–act/id1582090036</a> – Spotify: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/52wK4oMDvgijRk6E82tC5d" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://open.spotify.com/show/52wK4oMDvgijRk6E82tC5d</a> – RSS: <a href="https://sensethinkact.com/itunes.xml" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://sensethinkact.com/itunes.xml</a> – Full episodes: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/SenseThinkActPodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/c/SenseThinkActPodcast</a> – Clips: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChfnCpNwZzYtZ32J–pZvNDg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChfnCpNwZzYtZ32J–pZvNDg</a> OUTLINE: – (0:00:00) Start – (0:00:39) Introducing Steve and Nav2 – (0:01:07) History of the navigation stack and Nav2 – (0:06:10) What problems does Nav2 solve? – (0:08:05) How Nav2, MoveIt, and ROS Control relate – (0:10:59) Challenges in navigation – (0:14:22) Working in a grid world – (0:24:36) Motion primitives – (0:40:26) Potential fields – (0:46:12) Unknown maps – (0:48:03) Relating paths to wheel velocities – (0:50:55) When is Pathplanning used? – (0:52:57) Hybrid planners – (0:54:59) Changing environments – (0:57:11) Behavior trees – (1:01:42) Behavior tree example – (1:06:16) Behavior trees versus alternatives – (1:08:19) Nav2 and SLAM – (1:10:41) Nav2 for different types of surface environments – (1:13:27) Experience with the Nav2 community – (1:18:02) Open Source as a business model – (1:19:09) Getting involved – (1:22:29) Career advice SOCIAL: – Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/sense_think_act" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/sense_think_act</a> – Discourse: <a href="https://discourse.ros.org/c/sensethinkact/71" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://discourse.ros.org/c/sensethinkact/71</a>

Open Source Robot Navigation

This episode is dedicated to all those people that are thinking to move their robots to ROS2. One of the problems to move to ROS2 was the lack of a stable navigation system for ROS2 robots. But as you will learn today, this problem has been solved. So if you want to move to ROS2 […] The post 76. ROS2 Navigation Stack with Steve Macenski appeared first on The Construct.

This episode is dedicated to all those people that are thinking to move their robots to ROS2. One of the problems to move to ROS2 was the lack of a stable navigation system for ROS2 robots. But as you will learn today, this problem has been solved. So if you want to move to ROS2 […] The post <a href="https://www.theconstructsim.com/76-ros2-navigation-stack-with-steve-macenski/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">76. ROS2 Navigation Stack with Steve Macenski</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.theconstructsim.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Construct</a>.

76. ROS2 Navigation Stack with Steve Macenski