# April 2024 Meetings Aerial Robotics

**URL:** <https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/april-2024-meetings-aerial-robotics/37021>\
**Category:** Aerial Robotics\
**Tags:** wg-aerial-robotics\
**Created:** [April 5, 2024, 2:27pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/april-2024-meetings-aerial-robotics/37021 "2024-04-05T14:27:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![KimMcG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.openrobotics.org/kimmcg/32/23853_2.png) [@KimMcG](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/KimMcG)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2024, 2:27pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/april-2024-meetings-aerial-robotics/37021/1 "2024-04-05T14:27:25Z")

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Greetings, airborne tinkerers!

This month’s meeting announcements are here!

The next developer meeting is on:  
2024-04-10T16:00:00Z→2024-04-10T17:00:00Z  
Meeting link: [meet.google.com/vqa-nwxg-jkt](https://meet.google.com/vqa-nwxg-jkt)  
Also see [the community calendar](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=c_3fc5c4d6ece9d80d49f136c1dcd54d7f44e1acefdbe87228c92ff268e85e2ea0%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=UTC).

**Note that the time has changed** it is now moved to 4 pm UTC which is a bit more convenient for our US west-coasters but let us know if this is troublesome for you. The time on the calendar hasn’t been updated yet but I will do that asap.

This time the meeting will be lead by the great @mrpollo!

Agenda:

- 1- Intro and Announcements
- 2- Subcommittees, past present future
  - 2a - Mayank: indoor navigation ([GH project](https://github.com/orgs/ROS-Aerial/projects/4))
  - 2b - Rhys/Aarsh: simulation ([GH project](https://github.com/orgs/ROS-Aerial/projects/5))
  - 2c - Ryan: 3D outdoor planning ([GH project](https://github.com/orgs/ROS-Aerial/projects/1/views/2))
  - 2d - Ramon/Kim: Documentation ([GH project](https://github.com/orgs/ROS-Aerial/projects/3))

- 3- Discussion points
  - TBD

- 4- Conclusion

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**Author:** ![KimMcG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.openrobotics.org/kimmcg/32/23853_2.png) [@KimMcG](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/KimMcG)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2024, 1:56pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/april-2024-meetings-aerial-robotics/37021/2 "2024-04-09T13:56:09Z")

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Just a reminder for everybody that the time has changed to 4 pm UTC! So 2 hour later than usual:

**2024-04-10T16:00:00Z→2024-04-10T17:00:00Z**

Also some of the discussion points we can have for the discussion part part:

- Terrain navigation binaries being released
- Common testing environment setup/ docker formats
- Common simulation environments or setups
- Simulation subcommittee base goals

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**Author:** ![KimMcG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.openrobotics.org/kimmcg/32/23853_2.png) [@KimMcG](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/KimMcG)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2024, 9:49am UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/april-2024-meetings-aerial-robotics/37021/3 "2024-04-11T09:49:31Z")

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Here is a recording of our developer meeting yesterday lead by @mrpollo

[![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/ros/original/3X/a/b/aba3ee2a2e2765d91c7ea6c2f07c71ead91c9852.jpeg "ROS Aerial Robotics WG meeting April 2024 - 1") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4z2vpCIBqs)

Here are the slides and notes:  
[Meeting 11 Apr 2024 - Summary, Chat & Transcript](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/uploads/short-url/qKn310mms0CDoS8eGaNO7WcQVpU.pdf) (218.3 KB)  
[Meeting 11 Apr 2024 - slides](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/uploads/short-url/bvGjrpqItLA1tbd9OSTYI04lbiD.pdf) (183.6 KB)

So as of a list of todos for each subcommittee as what I could compile from the meeting notes:

- Simulation: define more precies goals for the subcommittee → Check if providing a standard set of environments would be a good one?
- Outdoor navigation: Getting help for the geo-map binary release and getting testers for the Ardupilot non-linear planner application (see the list of PRs down here)
- Indoor navigation: Determining a standard environment + simulation for people to work on. (maybe we should send out a poll)
- Documentation: Continue to work on [the website](https://ros-aerial.github.io/aerial_robotic_landscape/) + work on an outreach campaign for more contributions

Here is the list of PRs that would need some assistance:

- [Fix nav2\_costmap\_2d linkage by Ryanf55 · Pull Request #452 · ANYbotics/grid\_map · GitHub](https://github.com/ANYbotics/grid_map/pull/452) (based on [this issue](https://github.com/ANYbotics/grid_map/issues/450))
- [DDS: add guided path external control and implement for plane by srmainwaring · Pull Request #26339 · ArduPilot/ardupilot · GitHub](https://github.com/ArduPilot/ardupilot/pull/26339)
- [Plane: handle guided path requests in GUIDED mode by srmainwaring · Pull Request #26328 · ArduPilot/ardupilot · GitHub](https://github.com/ArduPilot/ardupilot/pull/26328)  
Hope I covered this all?

Next meeting is on the 24th of April, with a presentation on Terrain Navigation by @Jaeyoung-Lim

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**Author:** ![KimMcG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.openrobotics.org/kimmcg/32/23853_2.png) [@KimMcG](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/KimMcG)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2024, 2:56pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/april-2024-meetings-aerial-robotics/37021/4 "2024-04-19T14:56:22Z")

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Next week is a presentation meeting

2024-04-24T16:00:00Z→2024-04-24T17:00:00Z  
Meeting link: [meet.google.com/vqa-nwxg-jkt](https://meet.google.com/vqa-nwxg-jkt)  
Also see [the community calendar](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=c_3fc5c4d6ece9d80d49f136c1dcd54d7f44e1acefdbe87228c92ff268e85e2ea0%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=UTC).

This will be a presentation about [Terrain Navigation package](https://github.com/ethz-asl/terrain-navigation) by @Jaeyoung-Lim which allows low altitude navigation for fixed wing vehicles in steep terrains.

See you there!

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**Author:** ![KimMcG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.openrobotics.org/kimmcg/32/23853_2.png) [@KimMcG](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/KimMcG)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2024, 11:50am UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/april-2024-meetings-aerial-robotics/37021/5 "2024-04-25T11:50:04Z")

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Thanks all for joining yesterday’s presentation meeting!

Here is the recording:

[![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/ros/original/3X/e/7/e71608dea049d0be7d5a854e19a60f364644f1a8.jpeg "ROS Aerial Robotics WG meeting April 24 2024") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6RF7bpxRjw)

And here are the slides and transcripts:  
[Meeting 24 April - Slides](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/uploads/short-url/8gemc6PX85O1ax2CQN18sGntIYV.pdf) (154.1 KB)  
[Meeting 24 April - Chat, Transcript](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/uploads/short-url/uvRiCYfvBk8BTukeL5PD50VSw6Y.pdf) (160.4 KB)  
[Presentation Terrain Navigation - Slides](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/uploads/short-url/5yrNMGw0PjuOwzPiaMBNFx7L1bG.pdf) (4.2 MB)

Here are some other links that goes with the presentation:

- [GitHub - ethz-asl/terrain-navigation: Implementation for safe low altitude navigation in steep terrain for fixed-wing Aerial Vehicles](https://github.com/ethz-asl/terrain-navigation)
- [GitHub - ethz-asl/grid\_map\_geo: Geolocalization for grid map using GDAL.](https://github.com/ethz-asl/grid_map_geo)

Don’t forget the 1th of May Jazzy Tutorial party: [SAVE THE DATE: Jazzy Jalisco Testing and Tutorial Party 2024-05-01 - ROS General - Open Robotics Discourse](http://discourse.ros.org/t/save-the-date-jazzy-jalisco-testing-and-tutorial-party-2024-05-01/37155)

Try to look on the robotic stack exchange to help out newcomers in aerial robotics: [https://robotics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/drone+or+quadcopter+or+uav](https://robotics.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/drone+or+quadcopter+or+uav)

And don’t forgot to give feedback on @RFRIEDM [META - Ecosystem terrain standardization · Issue #65 · ROS-Aerial/community · GitHub](https://github.com/ROS-Aerial/community/issues/65)

Next meeting is in 2 weeks (May 8th) so I’ll make the announcement in another thread!