Highlights from ROSCon 2025 and Scan-N-Plan Overview
January 22 @ 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Michael Ripperger will reprise the talk he gave at ROSCon 2025 on Scan-N-Plan. ROSCon is the flagship 3-day annual conference for the Robot Operating System (ROS) project, hosted by the Open Source Robotics Foundation. This conference provides the community with an opportunity to discuss the project roadmap and new developments in the ROS ecosystem and to share interesting work using ROS across a variety of robotics fields. We’ll share highlights from the conference as well as an overview of the sponsor workshop we presented about the ROS-based Scan-N-Plan framework maintained by SwRI through ROS-Industrial. Scan-N-Plan is a suite of tools that enable real-time robot trajectory planning from 3D scan data. Traditional industrial robot programming is performed using either online, teach-pendant programming or offline programming with a simulated version of the robot and work piece. The Scan-N-Plan approach overcomes limitations in traditional robot programming for applications that have highly variable part mixes such that hand programming is impractical or do not have CAD part models available. Speaker(s): Michael Ripperger, Agenda: 11:30: Lunch and Networking time 11:45: Virtual meeting will be opened (with time to troubleshoot any technical glitches) 11:55: Program Begins with brief remarks related to IEEE/RAS 12:00: Main Presentation begins 12:45: Questions 1:00: Meeting Ends Bldg: SwRI Cafeteria, 145 Tom Slick Ave, San Antonio, Texas, United States, 78238, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/524773