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Outdoor Rover Series: ExoMy– Open-Source Model from The European Space Agency – DPRG Virtual Monthly Meeting, May 8th, 2021

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This month DPRG welcomes special guests Miro Voellmy and Max Erhardt, ex-members of the European Space Agency team, who will present from Germany and Switzerland! Their presentation is on the educational mobile robot, ExoMy. ExoMy is inspired by the Mars rover Rosalind Franklin of the European Space Agency.

ExoMy features a triple-bogie locomotion subsystem with six steerable wheels. All mechanical parts are 3D printed. The electronics consist of a battery, power distribution, on board computer and camera, using parts that are widely available and cost-efficient. The software allows teleoperation of ExoMy using a gamepad, or a custom web interface which provides a camera view. It is programmed in Python, within the ROS framework to make future expansion easy and is deployed with Docker.

The project is published under an open-source license and comprehensive assembly and installation instructions are provided. ExoMy has successfully been built by people all around the world and is a great introduction to space robotics for students and enthusiasts.

Learn more about ExoMy at its project web page https://esa-prl.github.io/ExoMy/ and wiki https://github.com/esa-prl/ExoMy/wiki

When

• Saturday, May 8th, starting at 1:00 PM Dallas time (CDT).

How

• Join Hangouts Meet https://meet.google.com/hey-jxuo-esf
• Or join by phone ‪+1 405-586-5598‬ ‬ PIN: ‪682 931 335 #‬

About DPRG Monthly Meetings
DPRG hosts interesting presentations each month during its regular membership meeting. These meetings and presentations are open to public and free to attend. We hope to see you online. Everyone is welcome to attend.

Note: we do record a video of these sessions and post them on the DPRG YouTube channel. By joining the meeting you’re giving consent to be included in the recording.

About DPRG
Dallas Personal Robotics Group has been actively building robots for fun since 1984. We meet every Tuesday evening and every 2nd Saturday, and frequently participate in community events.
In normal times we meet at the Dallas MakerSpace. During the Covid-19 pandemic, we have met virtually using Google meet.  Our virtual meetings have attendees from multiple countries and locations in the USA. We always welcome guests of all ages and skill levels!

ROS & Robots At Scale – Microsoft Edge Robotics – DPRG Virtual Monthly Meeting, July 11th, 2020

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Meeting is at 1:00 PM CDT (not DPRG’s normal Noon time)!

In Coordination with Hackster DFW

Special guest speaker Lou Amadio is a Principal Software Development Lead at Microsoft corporation in the Core Operating Systems group focusing on Robotics and autonomous systems.

Lou is leading the effort to enable ROS on Windows and to expand Microsoft’s ROS1 and ROS2 portfolio. Additionally, he and his team are working with customers to deploy ROS on Windows and ROS with Azure Cloud Services and to expand the ecosystem, while improving reliability and stability through a DevOps for Robotics initiative.

Lou will walk through a cool presentation touching on lots of interesting areas, and has asked if we can make this an interactive session. So let’s start at the intersection of Robots and Microsoft, and find some good branches to explore!

For example:
• Windows 10 IoT
• ROS at Microsoft
• DevOps for Robotics
• Azure Kinect DK ROS node
• Onnx Runtime ROS Node
• Azure IoT Hub ROS Node
• Visual Studio Code for ROS
• Mixed Reality Toolkit ROS module
• MRTK ROS For Unity

To attend the meeting navigate to Hangouts Meet https://meet.google.com/hey-jxuo-esf . If you wish to join by phone use +1 405-586-5598‬ ‬ PIN: ‪682 931 335 #‬.

In addition to Lou’s presentation, it time permits, there will be an Open Web-Cam Show & Tell. This a great time to share your projects with others, or if you’re stuck on something, ask a question to the club.

DPRG hosts presentations each month during its regular membership meeting. These meetings and presentations are open to public and free to attend.

We hope to see you there. Everyone is welcome to attend.

Note: We do record a video of these sessions and post them on the DPRG YouTube channel. By joining the meeting you’re giving consent to be included in the recording.