CATEC has been part of the organizer of the international event RosCón Spain 2024, the national conference on the Robot Operating System that was held at the University Pablo de Olavide in Seville on September 19 and 20, in collaboration with the Open Source Robotics Foundation. Our colleagues Eduardo Ferrera and Rafael Luque have been at the forefront representing us in the organization of this event that, with more than 200 participants, has become a reference in the field of robotics in Spain.
The event has been a unique opportunity for ROS developers of all levels, from beginners to experts, from the Spanish-speaking robotics community. For two days, attendees were able to learn, share knowledge and network with the ROS community, exchanging ideas and experiences on the latest advances in robotics.
In this second edition, there has been a day of workshops/tutorials, on the 19th, in addition to a full day of talks as in the last edition, on September 20th. Precisely on Friday, our colleague Pablo Manuel Guzmán Manzanares, engineer in Electronics and Robotics, presented the project, related to the CEL.IA network, called ‘Generation of 3D modeling of large surfaces by autonomous robots in real time’. This project consists of the development of a pipeline for the creation of 3D meshes in real time from the information provided by an autonomous vehicle equipped with IMU and LIDAR sensors. The advantages provided by ROS are used to facilitate the transmission of information between the different processing modules developed.
As he explains, “the objective of the CEL.IA project is to contribute to overcome the existing barriers and gaps for end users (companies and society) to incorporate Artificial Intelligence in their daily lives. We do this by developing, transferring and applying solutions based on virtual and augmented reality, artificial vision and natural language processing, to respond to these needs”.
Specifically, at CATEC we have focused on telepresence and digitization applications, using our expertise in autonomous robotics to turn the information provided by these devices into a bridge between the physical world and its digital twin. “We seek to research, develop and provide new tools in the topics addressed by CELIA, contributing to solve the current gaps in the use of virtual and mixed reality technologies,” adds Pablo. “These technologies are experiencing exponential growth due to the cheapening of devices and the shift in the social and work paradigm towards virtual spaces.”
“Our developments contribute to advances in the management of large amounts of data in wireless networks and how we can observe their evolution in real time, providing two specific tools for this”, he concludes. Congratulations Pablo on your interesting presentation!
