ROS Awards 2022 outcomes – Robohub

The ROS Awards are the Oscars of the ROS world! The intention of those awards is to specific recognition for contributions to the ROS group and the event of the ROS-based robotic business, and to assist these contributions achieve consciousness.

Situations

• Number of the winners is made by nameless on-line voting over a interval of two weeks
• Anyone within the ROS group can vote by the voting enabled web site
• Organizers of the awards present an preliminary checklist of 10 doable initiatives for every class however the checklist will be elevated at any time by anyone through the voting interval
• For the reason that Awards are organized by The Assemble none of its merchandise or builders will be voted
• Winners are introduced on the ROS Builders Day yearly convention
• New on 2022 version: Winners of earlier editions can’t win once more, in an effort to not focus the give attention to the identical initiatives on a regular basis. Bear in mind, with these awards, we wish to assist unfold all ROS initiatives!

Voting

1. Each individual can solely vote as soon as in every class
2. You can not change your solutions after getting submitted your vote
3. Voting is closed 3 days earlier than the convention, and an inventory of the finalists per every class is introduced in the identical week
4. Voters can’t use flaws within the system to affect voting. Any detection of attempting to trick the system will disqualify the votes. You possibly can, although, promote your favourite amongst your networks so others vote for it.

Measures have been taken to forestall as a lot as doable batch voting from a single individual.

Classes

Greatest ROS Software program

The Greatest ROS Software program class contains any software program that runs with ROS. It may be a bundle printed on the ROS.org repo of only a software program that makes use of ROS libraries to supply an enter. Open Supply and closed supply are each legitimate.

Finalists

1. Ignition Gazebo, by Open Robotics
2. Groot Conduct Tree, by Davide Faconti
3. Webots, by Cyberbotics
4. SMACC2, by Brett Aldrich
5. ros2_control, by a number of ROS builders
6. PlotJuggler, by Davide Faconti

Winner: Webots, by Cyberbotics

Be taught extra concerning the winner on this video:

Greatest ROS-Primarily based Robotic

The Greatest ROS-Primarily based Robotic class consists of any robotic that runs ROS inside it. They are often robotics merchandise, robots for analysis, or robots for schooling. In all circumstances, they should be working ROS inside.

Finalists

1. Panda robotic arm, by Franka Emika
2. TIAGo, by Pal Robotics
3. UR robotic arm, by Common Robots
4. Turtlebot 4, by Clearpath
5. Nanosaur, by Raffaello Bonghi
6. Leo Rover, by Leo Rover

Winner: Nanosaur, by Raffaello Bonghi

Be taught extra concerning the winner on this video:

Greatest ROS Developer

Builders are those that create all of the ROS software program that we love. The Greatest ROS Developer class means that you can vote for any developer who has contributed to ROS growth in a single sense or one other.

Finalists

1. Francisco Martín
2. Davide Faconti
3. Raffaello Bonghi
4. Brett Aldrich
5. Victor Mayoral Vilches
6. Pradheep Krishna

Winner: Francisco Martín

Be taught extra concerning the winner on this video:

Insights from the 2022 Version

1. This 12 months, the third time we organise the awards, we’ve got elevated the full variety of votes by 500% So we are able to say that the winners are illustration of the sentiments of the group.
2. Nonetheless this 12 months, the winners of earlier editions acquired many votes. Luckily, we utilized the brand new rule of not permitting to win earlier winners, to offer area for different ROS initiatives have the give attention to the group, and therefore assist to create a wealthy ROS ecosystem.

Conclusions

The ROS Awards began in 2020 with a primary version the place the winners have been a few of the greatest and well-known initiatives within the ROS world. On this third version, we’ve got massively elevated the variety of votes from the earlier version. We count on this award will proceed to contribute to the spreading of excellent ROS initiatives.

See you once more at ROS Awards 2023!

tags: open supply