Open Navigation LLC

AMD and Open Navigation LLC have collaborated to showcase the powerful #RyzenAI technologies for use in robotics applications! We have put together 3 demonstrations: Outdoor #GPS Navigation, Urban #3D Navigation, and Indoor #LongDuration Navigation, each with proof-of-concept autonomy systems for getting started. Check out https://lnkd.in/g-xN9eVa to see the videos, download datasets, learn how to setup and use #ROS2, #Nav2 for Indoor, Urban, and 3D SLAM-based navigation! Bonus: We also include a series of guides for how to bootstrap a new robot: PC, software bringup, time synchronize multiple machines, and more! These devices contain the powerful, modern AMD x86 CPUs you know and love, married with a Radeon GPU, Neutral Processing Unit (NPU), and more to run hardware accelerated and AI applications on your robot products. We at Open Navigation have benchmarked that all of autonomous navigation, 3D perception, localization, and autonomy applications can be performed with under 15% of total resource utilization, leaving plenty of room for many user applications, advanced AI, and more -- all for an amazing price point. If you are working on robotics systems and require powerful x86 cores, we definitely recommend looking into #RyzenAI. Make sure to checkout our collaboration below to learn more and get started fast with AMD and Nav2! https://lnkd.in/g-xN9eVa

And #ROSCon 2024 is a wrap! Thanks everyone for coming out to see Steve Macenski's talk on #Nav2's new Docking Server - brought to you in partnership with NVIDIA Robotics, one of our Gold Sponsors! Now, all robots everywhere can autodock with ROS 2, batteries included to the world's most deployed autonomous mobile robotics framework. I want to thank deeply also Stereolabs, Dexory, and Polymath Robotics for their partnership and support for #ROS, Nav2, and our open-source ecosystem. We could not keep the AMR community going without all of their active support and collaboration! If you use Nav2 in your product or service, please do reach out as we're planning for 2025 ?? #goros #yourfriendneighborhoodnavigator

Missed Steve Macenski's Nav2 session at #ROSCon2024? Watch his talk introducing Nav2's new autonomous docking package. He discusses key server aspects, shares demonstrations, and explains how to integrate it into your applications. https://nvda.ws/3YVv9YX

#ROSCon2024 last week was a blast, and definitely the biggest and most exciting edition ever ?? ?? ! It was amazing to be able to show off with our full scale robot (a bit more impressive than its Lego mock up). I think we won the robot size contest of the show ?? The response of the community was great and we had non stop conversations at our booth (“and what about drones ?”). And an interview by the Linkedin robotics superstar Lukas M. Ziegler. We participated in a nice panel discussion “Mobile Robotics Scale-up Leveraging ROS", thanks Christine Fraser for animating it. Ruffin White presented some DevOps magic with “Accelerating the CI/CD-to-robot cycle by 10x for 1/10th the cost“ Davide Faconti had a nice lightning talk on DataTamer (and some nice meme quotes in other talks) Marcus Scheunemann and I were fortunate to have the second day 9.00am slot keynote, with a beautiful crowd despite the “intense networking” the night before. We shared our crazy Dexory scale-up journey from 0 to 90 robots in 2 years (with ROS 2!), and enjoyed the debates and discussions that followed: BalenaOS, Grafana, nav2, 3D lidars, mapping, nav2, fleet management and many more! Also always nice to catch up face to face with our suppliers and partners: Robotec.ai, Olive Robotics, Foxglove, Luxonis, NVIDIA Robotics, ZettaScale Technology, Open Navigation LLC, Open Robotics, Bosch Rexroth to mention a few. A huge thanks to our incredible team: Camille Gatti, Jackie Bibby, Martin Eskdale Moen, Jay Young, Dean,Ruffin White, Ignacio Vizzo, Tiziano Guadagnino, Davide Faconti, Tom Lachlan and Adrian Negoita And to everybody in the organisation that made it happen (getting the beast in was not easy): Britta Ehnebuske, CMP, Dorthe Kramer and Martin Knudsen. Legends!

At #ROSCon today in Odense? Make sure to join our #Nav2 user meetup at 1pm at the Odeon! We'll be giving an opportunity for everyone to network, the state of the project, and what the next big upgrades to the stack that are planned. Make sure to come with questions or ideas of where you're interested in contributing!

Check out the #Nav2 birds of a feather meetup at #ROSCon during the first day (workshops)! It'll be a great time to hear about the state of Nav2 and network with other Nav2 users!

We want to thank Kosta Sidopoulos for his leadership and vision to create this collaboration! The results of this project showcase important and missing technology demonstrations of #mobility and #ROS2 in open-source using #Nav2 and #RyzenAI. It is also a great backbone to start from for integrating new and advanced technologies from #AMD into open-source robotics to continue to accelerate the industry. Watch this space!

Thanks Karelics! Others can hear more about it at #ROSCon 2024 or through the webinar we did in partnership with NVIDIA Robotics if you can’t wait that long!

?? Get ready for another amazing session at the ROS Industrial Conference 2024 in Odense, Denmark! ?? We’re excited to feature Steve Macenski from Open Navigation LLC, who will present on "Mastering Nav2: Techniques and Applications Powering an Industry." Register Now! https://lnkd.in/ee_mgsHN Fraunhofer IPA | Robot Technology - Danish Technological Institute #goROS #riceu2024 #MobileRobotics

I am very proud to be part of company that we play the ROS open-source game fairly. On top of our regular open-source contributions, we sponsor Open Navigation LLC / nav2, the OSRA and the ROSCon (both the French and the World edition). Thanks Dexory !