Open Source Robotics Foundation

Mentors: Student: Mihir Kulkarni

<p>The rendering component of Gazebo has been moved to its own library, Ignition Rendering, and is now part of the <a href="https://bitbucket.org/ignitionrobotics/ign-rendering" target="_blank">Ignition Robotics</a> project. The works involves porting a list of sensor visualization features from Gazebo to <a href="https://ignitionrobotics.org/" target="_blank">Ignition Rendering</a>. These include laser, sonar, wrench, contact visuals and more. The student will create these visuals in Ignition Rendering as loadable plugins, implement any features needed to create these visualizations, and demonstrate the results using simulated sensor data generated by Ignition Sensors.</p>

Mentors: Student: Sarathkrishnan Ramesh

<p>RViz has undeniably been a key component of every ROS developer during the development of their robot’s software stack. With the recent development in ROS2 and the refactor of Gazebo’s source code into smaller modular libraries i.e. Ignition libraries, RViz also needs a much deserved revamp. As a part of the GSoC project, a prototype of RViz will be developed from scratch using the ignition rendering library and loadable visualization plugins supporting both ROS2 and ROS.</p>

Mentors: Student: Martiño Crespo Álvarez

<p>Tactile sensors allow you to sense physical interactions with the environment. This GSoC project aimed to implement the first step in the simulation of an optical tactile sensor using a depth camera and a contact sensor. The plugin allows you to:</p> <ul> <li>Measure surface normals of the objects in contact.</li> <li>Visualize them in Ignition Gazebo.</li> <li>Access them through a topic.</li> <li>Turning the plugin on and off through a service. </li> <li>Tune the plugin with parameters like resolution, visualization and more.</li> </ul>

Mentors: Student: Mohamed Ahmed Hassan

<p>this is my initial proposal introducing myself, ideas and timeline of the project. looking forward to hearing your reply</p>

Mentors: Student: Amr Elsersy

<p>This project is about providing the simulation plotting system in ignition to plot ignition-transport messages and ignition gazebo's components during the simulation.</p>