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Co-Sponsor: Robert Toppel, Axiom Electronics

Mission

“Our Mission is to foster the development and facilitate the exchange of scientific and technological knowledge in Robotics and Automation that benefits members, the profession and humanity.” The Oregon IEEE RAS Chapter places an emphasis on sharing technical knowledge. In particular, we focus on projects with the ROS (Robot Operating System). We also have occasional research topics.

ROS is an industrial and research grade robot framework that used in Retink Robotics’ Baxter, robot navigation research and in the Turtlebot educational system. Understanding ROS requires good computing skills, a knowledge using a high level language in an Ubuntu development environment, and an ability to understand how large software systems fit together. We sponsor and develop open labs and workshops to develop understanding.

Links to Highlighted Meetings

• Creating a Robot that Stars in a Microsoft Surface Commercial
• Engineering the Magni Open Source ROS Robot Platform
• Overview of Intel’s RealSense Depth Sensors
• Overview of LIDAR Scanning Technology

Other Topics

• Mapping and Navigation with ROS
• OSU Autonomous Wheelchair Project using ROS
• Dexter Robot Arm Control Architecture
• Using ROS and OpenCV CamShift to Create a Follow Program
• Building a Motor Driver
• Open ROS Develop Labs