The Robot Report

NVIDIA improves ROS 2 pipeline processing with hardware acceleration

Organization: NVIDIA
Country: USA
Website: nvidia.com
Year Founded: 1993
Number of Employees: 25,000+

Description:
2023 RBR50 LogoNVIDIA and Open Robotics developed new features for ROS 2 Humble in July 2022 that enabled NVIDIA Jetson to operate a hardware-accelerated pipeline more efficiently. NVIDIA achieved a 7x speed boost from ROS 2 Foxy to Humble using the Jetson AGX Orin machine. Isaac ROS also published NVIDIA's NITROS processing pipelines, which incorporate type adaption and negotiation features from ROS 2 Humble. Isaac ROS helps ROS 2 developers integrate AI and CV technology into their robotic applications.

Analysis:
The Robot Operating System (ROS) has been instrumental in advancing the robotics sector. But users experience limitations in the ROS framework due to its inefficiency in mapping to modern heterogeneous architectures like the NVIDIA Jetson and SOCs from many other vendors. NVIDIA Isaac ROS addressed this by adding type adaption and type negotiation to ROS 2 Humble, providing a standard and ROS-compatible way to build hardware-accelerated applications. NVIDIA Isaac ROS also delivered a comprehensive set of artificial intelligence and computer vision packages to the ROS developer community that offer high performance and are easy to leverage. When used with NVIDIA’s Jetson edge AI platform and GPU-based systems, ROS 2 developers enjoy reduced development time and improved performance. - Mike Oitzman collections of robots in Isaac SIM.

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