Sony Robotics Introduction for ROS-Industrial Asia Pacific Workshop 2020

1. Sony R&D Robotics System Architecture with ROS
Tomoya Fujita @ Sony Corporation R&D Center
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2. Agenda
Introduction
Sony Robotics Architecture
ROS Product & Technical Extension
ROS Eco-System
ROS2 Activity
Distributed System
Kubernetes on Edge
Dynamic Cluster Reconfiguration
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3. Who am I?
Tomoya Fujita
Sony R&D Center, Tokyo Lab
github
linkedin
ROS Related Work
ROSCon2018 Presentation
ROSCon2019 Panel Talk
ROSCon2019 LT
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8. ROS Transport Overview
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9. ROS Transport Extended
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10. Github Repository
https://github.com/fujitatomoya/ros_comm/tree/topic-kinetic-devel-uds-support
https://github.com/fujitatomoya/ros_comm/tree/topic-melodic-devel-uds-support
Contributor
Tomoya Fujita Tomoya.Fujita@sony.com
Barry Xu Barry.Xu@sony.com
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11. ROS Eco-System
Open Source
Meta-Operating System Support
Publisher/Subscriber
Architecture
Simulation
Visualization
Debug Utility
Hardware Abstraction
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13. ROS2 Activity
eProsima FastDDS Shared Memory Project
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rmw/rcl/rclcpp contribution.
minor feature extension.
bug fixeds such as memory leak.
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14. Distributed System
Fail independently
It appears to be a single system
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15. Background
Robotics Orchestration
Highly task, more collaborate
Factory, Logistics, Entertainment
Application Lifecycle
Fleet Management
Development
Frequently Update (No Down Time)
Easy, Quick and Efficient for Application Developer
Maintenance
Don’t want to get paged in the night.
Hardware Abstraction
Compatible / Consistent Platform for Application
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17. Kubernetes Advantages
Deployment / Maintenance
Rollup / Rolldown (no down time)
Administration / Management
Scalability
Simplified Development
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19. Device Abstraction
Dynamically load device into Kubernetes Cluster.
Devices will be controlled by custom resource.
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