# ROS Aerial Community Work Group ![logo](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/130599769?s=200&v=4) ## Meeting Notes - May 22nd, 2025 Forum Post: https://discourse.ros.org/t/aerial-robotics-meeting-may-22th-2025/43748 **Hosts** * Kimberly McGuire * Ramón Roche **Attendees** * Alexis Guijarro (live from Xpo) * Mihir Kulkarni * Damien LaRocque * Pierre Kancir * _19 people joined at its height_ ## Agenda * Announcements * Aerial gym Simulator Presentation * Discussion * Announcement next meeting ### Announcements * Kilted Kaiju will be released * First ROS 2 distro with Zenoh_rmw standard intergrated * Check out the release date: https://docs.ros.org/en/rolling/Releases/Release-Kilted-Kaiju.html * ROSCON deadlines * 2nd june Singapore ROSCon * *ROSCon FR + DE deadline on July 18* * 26th may ROSCon UK * ROS 1 end of life (EOL) 31th of May * Who is still using ROS 1? * What to do with the landscape with ROS 1 packages? * Planned changes on ROS discourse * Aerial will be moved to community groups * https://discourse.ros.org/t/planned-changes-to-the-osrf-discourse-s/43723/4 * *Ardupilot summer of code programs* * *https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/2025/organizations/ardupilot* * Current and upcoming events * 19-23 May - [ICRA](https://2025.ieee-icra.org/), Atlanta, GA, USA ([aerial robotics workshop](https://aerial-robotics-workshop-icra.com/)) * 18-19 June, Odense, Denmark [International Drone Show](https://internationaldroneshow.com/) * Aug 25-27, Amsterdam, Netherlands, [Embedded Linux Conference Europe (part of OSS)](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-europe/) * More aerial related events on the [aerial robotics landscape](https://ros-aerial.github.io/aerial_robotic_landscape/events/) ### Presentation #### Aerial Gym Simulator Mehir Kulkarni From NTNU Aerial Gym Simulator: https://github.com/ntnu-arl/aerial_gym_simulator #### ROS 1 EOL: have you updated yet? 🍗 Live Poll | **Which version of ROS do you use?** * ROS 1 - **1 vote** * ROS 2 - **6 votes** * Both ROS 1 and ROS 2 - **4 votes** * What's ROS? - **2 votes** 🧪 Discussion | **Why haven't you updated yet?** * Not all components are under our control in the system * Older project no longer maintained at that level but project still deployed. * DDS / Communication issues * Lots of legacy code for SLAM / Planning * Intel Realsense T265 has no oficial drivers for ROS 2 * NDA issues on some hardware parts * Love for technical debt! ❄️ ### Discussion * Who is still on ROS1? * Why? ### Next meeting Next meeting will be on Thursday 19th of June, 5 pm UTC. No presentation lined up yet but will notify once we do. Add the [ROS community event calendar ](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/embed?src=c_3fc5c4d6ece9d80d49f136c1dcd54d7f44e1acefdbe87228c92ff268e85e2ea0@group.calendar.google.com&ctz=UTC)to your calendar to see our planned meetings. We also post an announcement [Aerial Vehicles category](https://discourse.ros.org/c/aerial-vehicles/14) on ROS discourse with the [wg-aerial-robotics tag](https://discourse.ros.org/tag/wg-aerial-robotics) about one week before the meeting starts. <iframe src="https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/embed?src=c_3fc5c4d6ece9d80d49f136c1dcd54d7f44e1acefdbe87228c92ff268e85e2ea0@group.calendar.google.com&ctz=UTC" style="border: 0" width="800" height="600" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe> ### Want to nominate someone/yourself for a presentation? Send us a message on the #aerial-robotics channel channel (link below) we are always looking for cool open source projects to spotlight. **👉 Reach out to Kim / Ramón.** ### Handy Links * [ROS Discourse wg-aerial](https://discourse.ros.org/tag/wg-aerial-robotics) * [ROS Aerial Community Github](https://github.com/ROS-Aerial) * [#aerial-robotics Discord Channel (Open Robotics Server)](https://discord.gg/open-robotics-1077825543698927656) * [Aerial Robotic Landscape](https://ros-aerial.github.io/aerial_robotic_landscape/)