On March 31st, 2016; Project manager for the 3Spheres Robotics project, Jon Morris will give an update on a new collaboration in BC to design and prototype a collaborative service robot to help people with disabilities reach their personal goals and achieve greater independence.  As an open source initiative, ROS will play a key role in the development process, and Jon will share the shortcuts and challenges that ROS provides.

As project manager for the 3Spheres Robotics project, Jon Morris will give an update on a new collaboration in BC to design and prototype a collaborative service robot to help people with disabilities reach their personal goals and achieve greater independence.  As an open source initiative, ROS will play a key role in the development process, and Jon will share the shortcuts and challenges that ROS provides.

After a quick networking break, Derek Shackleford, CTO at JDQ Systems Inc, will share a real ROS technical problem with the group, highlighting the challenges of getting the latest robotics hardware (computer, sensors, mobile base) to “talk” to one another.  Using ROS, a Kobuki, a Kinect V2 sensor and laptop, Derek will either present a solution or ask the audience for help, depending on current status of the issue!

Using a real-time, wed-based, audience polling application, Jon will get feedback from the ROS users group on areas of interest and future meetup topics.

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