Hello community,
One of our GSoC students, Shashank Rao, mentored by Arjo Chakravarty, will present their work about ray-tracing senors in Gazebo 
. Next are some details:
“In this talk, GSoC student Shashank Rao and Arjo will present their significant progress on developing a hardware-accelerated Ray Tracing library specifically for Gazebo, with a dedicated focus on improving LiDARs and depth cameras. Their work leverages Rust’s WGPU library, a crucial choice that ensures hardware-agnostic ray tracing, effectively allowing the library to harness the dedicated ray tracing cores found across a wide array of GPU vendors, including AMD, Intel, and Nvidia. This advancement promises to dramatically enhance the speed, throughput and accuracy of sensor data within Gazebo simulations.”
Here’s the agenda:
- Latest news from Open Robotics about Gazebo - Carlos Agüero, Honu Robotics
- Vendor-Agnostic Ray-Tracing Sensor Plugin for Gazebo - Shashank Rao, Indian Institutes of Information Technology, Nagpur &
Arjo Chakravarty, Intrinsic Innovation LLC, Singapore
.
Optional: Lighting talks
We opened a slot for short (2 minutes) lighting presentations. If you’re interested in talking about your maritime project contact me (caguero AT honurobotics DOT com) and I’ll book your slot.
Meeting details
Date: 2025-07-30T16:00:00Z
Place: Virtual at Google Meet
Event: Calendar event
Topic: Ray tracing
Agenda: Everyone is welcome to add items to the agenda .
As always, the meeting will be recorded and posted to the community meetings playlist on the GazeboSim YouTube channel. Check out the playlist for past meetings!
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See you there!
The Gazebo Dev Team