RobotOS.jl
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jdlangs
ROS2 support
As a robotics engineer, I’m working with ROS2. From an (software) engineering and research perspective, I’m quite interested in Julia however with the lack of a ROS2 client library for Julia, it’s for me currently a bit difficult to start using Julia. Is there the plan to support ROS2?
Hi Andreas, the short answer is yes, I want this package to support ROS2. I also use ROS2 at work so I have some incentive to work on it. I did do some initial prototyping work a few months ago to experiment with using librcl directly and to do Julia type generation. The basics for all that has been worked out but I haven't yet been able to get back to fleshing it out properly.
At this point, with the covid disruption, it's hard to say when I can get back into working on this package. I'm expecting to have a bit less workload come mid-summer so that might be the timeline.
Great news! I plan to start learning Julia as I switch to ROS2 end of this year. Can't wait to try this out
Any chance that ROS2 will be implemented via Cxx instead of PyCall, as was in the case of RobotOS.jl? Is there any update on "ROS2 on Julia"?
I'm really looking forward to use ROS2 in Julia as a newbie of both ROS2 and Julia! 😄
@jdlangs you said you already started playing around with wrapping librcl in Julia. Do have a branch or a repo with your initial sketch? I'd be interested in doing some more poking.
@lassepe thanks for your interest here. I'm happy to make my initial work public and you can now find it on the ros2 branch. As usual, I don't expect to have much bandwidth to continue working on this currently but maybe this starting point will inspire some further efforts.