October ROS-A Europe Community Meeting

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The next ROS-A Europe meeting will be 2020-10-23T12:00:00Z

Agenda:

• Discussion on a montage collection of clips showing ROS usage in agriculture for ROSCon (see related post:What can robots do in agriculture? - #7 by ROS-A - ROS-Agriculture - Open Robotics Discourse)
• Discussion on a potential track on agricultural applications during ROS-Industrial conference
• @ilias presenting a short event that he would like to host
• Open discussion

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Best regards,
Karen

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ROS-Agriculture Europe Meeting Minutes 2020-10-23

Attendees

Name	Organization
Gijs van der Hoorn	TUDelft
Ting-Chia Chiang	TUDelft
Ilias Amri	Sorbonne Université
Mikael Arguedas	-
Thomas Held	-

Topics

1. Call for collection of clips showing ROS usage in agriculture

2. Discussion on a potential track on agricultural applications during ROS-Industrial conference

   • Virtual ROS-Industrial Conference on December 15-16
   • If you are interested in presenting your agricultural application during this event, please contact @gavanderhoorn or @c_h_s
   • The agricultural application should have proper use potentially or preferably in commercial environment

3. Discussion on a hackathon event that Ilias would like to host

   • A tractor (or a simple four-wheel vehicle) that can gather data in an indoor environment
   • Gijs suggested we re-use the lawn_tractor demo to avoid reinventing the wheel and strengthen cooperation with ROS-A on US side

4. Long-term goal- Keep the ball rolling

   • To get more people interested, we should pick a topic, find a challenge and start working on that challenge. Especially areas like precision farming, vertical farming, and horticulture could be the ones which European side should focus on
   • Ilias has already worked on training a network to recognize plants exclusively trained from synthetic data which could be a spiritual successor for our next challenge
   • Perception challenge : identify crops using synthetic/real data

Actions

Action Items	Owner(s)	Deadline
Post the plant detector work on ROS discourse as a spiritual successor so that we can continue working on that	@ilias	Before next meeting
Might present something if he is available	@marguedas	Before next meeting
Talk with US side regarding lawn tractor demo	Karen	Before next meeting

Recording

The video of this meeting may be found here: https://youtu.be/W2ys4mhQ-vY