Louise Poubel | QCon San Francisco 2018

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Speaker: Louise Poubel

Software Engineer @OpenRoboticsOrg

Louise Poubel is a software engineer at Open Robotics working on free and open source tools for robotics, like the robot simulator Gazebo and the Robot Operating System (ROS). Louise first got involved with Open Robotics through GNOME’s Outreach Program for Women. Louise grew up in Brazil and went to college in Japan, where she received her BS in electromechanical engineering from Chiba University. She also holds a joint MEng in advanced robotics from École Centrale de Nantes and Warsaw University of Technology, where her research focused on real-time, whole-body human motion imitation by humanoid robots.

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Talk : Open Source Robotics: Hands on with Gazebo and ROS 2

Track : Future of Human Computer Interaction

Location : Seacliff ABC

Day of week : Wednesday

Duration : 2:55pm - 3:45pm

In large part, the recent advancements in robotics have been made possible by open source tools. Open Robotics, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the development, distribution, and adoption of open source software in robotics, supports two main projects — ROS (Robot Operating System) and Gazebo, a multirobot simulator — both of which are widely used by the global robotics community, including industry, academia, and hobbyists.

ROS is a framework that lets you quickly set up the various parts of a robot and get them all to work together as a meaningful application. ROS does this by setting a common transport layer for all the software inside the robot, from sensors and actuators to decision making. Around the common transport layer, there are several tools built to help developers introspect and diagnose their robots with ease. Gazebo is a simulator that calculates rigid-body dynamics, generates all kinds of sensor data, and allows user interaction through both a programming API and a powerful graphical interface. Some of the uses for Gazebo include robotics competitions, continuous integration, prototyping, machine learning and education.

In this talk, Louise will give an overview of ROS and Gazebo, the problems they've been solving so far and what's in the roadmap for the future. In the second half of the talk, a hands-on demo will walk through the creation of a robot in simulation and controlling and inspecting it using ROS 2, the next generation ROS.

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Monday, 5 November

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Evolving, observing, persisting, and building modern microservices
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Practical approaches using DevOps & Lean Thinking
JavaScript & Web Tech

Beyond JavaScript in the Browser. Exploring WebAssembly, Electron, & Modern Frameworks
Modern CS in the Real World

Thoughts pushing software forward, including consensus, CRDT's, formal methods, & probabilistic programming
Modern Operating Systems

Applied, practical, & real-world deep-dive into industry adoption of OS, containers and virtualization, including Linux on Windows, LinuxKit, and Unikernels
Optimizing You: Human Skills for Individuals

Better teams start with a better self. Learn practical skills for IC

Tuesday, 6 November

Architectures You've Always Wondered About

Next-gen architectures from the most admired companies in software, such as Netflix, Google, Facebook, Twitter, & more
21st Century Languages

Lessons learned from languages like Rust, Go-lang, Swift, Kotlin, and more.
Emerging Trends in Data Engineering

Showcasing DataEng tech and highlighting the strengths of each in real-world applications.
Bare Knuckle Performance

Killing latency and getting the most out of your hardware
Socially Conscious Software

Building socially responsible software that protects users privacy & safety
Delivering on the Promise of Containers

Runtime containers, libraries, and services that power microservices

Wednesday, 7 November

Applied AI & Machine Learning

Applied machine learning lessons for SWEs, including tech around TensorFlow, TPUs, Keras, PyTorch, & more
Production Readiness: Building Resilient Systems

More than just building software, building deployable production ready software
Developer Experience: Level up your Engineering Effectiveness

Improving the end to end developer experience - design, dev, test, deploy, operate/understand.
Security: Lessons Attacking & Defending

Security from the defender's AND the attacker's point of view
Future of Human Computer Interaction

IoT, voice, mobile: Interfaces pushing the boundary of what we consider to be the interface
Enterprise Languages

Workhorse languages found in modern enterprises. Expect Java, .NET, & Node in this track

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