GOTO Amsterdam (June 17-19, 2015) is a vendor independent international software development conference with more that 50 top speakers and 500 attendees. The conference covers topics such as AngularJS, Disruption, Docker, Drones, Elasticsearch, Hadoop, Microservices & Scrum.
Victor Mayoral Vilches, TweetCTO of Erle Robotics
Biography: Victor Mayoral Vilches
Víctor Mayoral Vilches is a roboticist that holds two degrees in engineering and has been active in several research centers and Universities around the world. He has participated in various open source projects involving embedded Linux and robotics such as BeagleROS, BeaglePilot and the development of ROS 2, the next generation of the Robot Operative System. Over the last year he has worked at the Open Source Robotics Foundation and been involved in the APM autopilot project. He is one of the main contributors of the "port to Linux".
He is also the co-founder of Erle Robotics, a spanish startup selected worldwide as one of the 30 most promising in the field of robotics that is pushing forward Linux drones through Erle-brain, an open source and open hardware Linux autopilot.
Presentation: TweetLinux Drones & the "App Store" for Drones
Drones are proliferating and as embedded Linux computers decrease in size, consumption and cost it becomes possible to create small and capable flying computers; robots that would simplify the transfer of knowledge and allow a big community of experts to jump into robotic application development using Linux.
In this talk Víctor Mayoral Vilches will introduce the Linux side of the APM (MultiPlatform Autopilot) autopilot; an open source project with about 700.000 lines of code and more than a hundred contributors that supports three classes of autonomous drones:
copters, planes and rovers.
Víctor will also motivate the potential of using ROS as the SDK for robot application development and provide an overview of the new "app store" for robots resulting from a collaboration between Canonical, the Open Source Robotics Foundation and hardware manufacturers such as Erle Robotics. Together with the capabilities, Víctor will provide a hands-on demo session on how to create a drone application and deploy it to the drone.