Sony R&D Center ROS Development / Activity

Tomoya Fujita - Tomoya.Fujita@sony.com

R&D US Laboratory
Sony Corporation of America

Who am I?

Senior Staff Engineer
Sony R&D Center, US Laboratory
Former ROS TSC (Technical Steering Committee)
OSRA ROS Project Management Committee

Open Source Robotics Alliance

• The OSRA is the last step in a yearlong process to move ROS, Gazebo, Open-RMF, and Infra to an independent non-profit organization.
• OSRA is currently seeking members, both individuals and organizations to financially support the ROS infrastructure and its development.

Why Open Source matters?

• Network Effects / Feedback Circles

  • Value increases based on size of use cases
  • Bigger community, more ideas, variety of experience and skills
  • Standard API / Interface, Collaboration / Presence

• Open Source is the new “Standard”: Linux is the standard Operating System

• Cost Effective

  • Only specific part of product is differentiating feature

ROS Community

• Open Source Robotics Alliance -> Project Management

• Working Groups -> Specific Interests, Usecases

• ROS Discourse -> Discussion

• Robotics Stack Exchange -> Questions

• ROS Github -> Development

• ROSCon -> Global Conference

Sony Robotics Products

• aibo, poiq and Airpeak S1 Drone

  • All there products are based on ROS 1 and empowered by Open Source.

• Features Sony developed in the past

  • True Zero Copy Data Sharing via Fast-DDS
  • Wait for Acknowledgements
  • Content Filtered Topic
  • minor enhancements, many bug fixes and so on.

Let's just jump in ROS Community

• 1st, let’s do it! We can always ask for the help!
• Be constructive, productive and inclusive! Let’s say “we”!
• Respect, nobody works for free. (Don’t ignore feedback)
• But trust needs to be earned.
• Solve community problem, not only yours.
• Worldwide community / different culture.