World MoveIt Day 2019 @ OMRON SINIC X
At OMRON SINIC X, we use MoveIt to work with our collaborators in universities and research institutes and plan high-level operations. For example, in our the World Robot Summit 2018 Assembly Challenge we used MoveIt to assemble machine parts and use tools (see ideo below), and extended it with the ability to plan using subframes (points of interest) of grasped items — the first step on the way to planning assembly operations. To support the open-source community, on November 20 we hosted World MoveIt Day, an international hackathon for the MoveIt code base!
The event was hosted at the our office in Hongo-3-Chome, neighboring the University of Tokyo. We provided hands-on access to our Franka Emika Panda and UR5 robots, the hacking space and a bottomless supply of coffee. Our co-organizers from the Tokyo Open-Source Robotics Association (TORK) provided lunch, snacks and t-shirts, while Connected Robotics brought an xArm to the venue!
The event (Japanese) was fully booked out, but we were connected by video stream to other participants like the ROS-Industrial office in Singapore. Results of our local event included reviews to TrajOpt, tutorial translations and this pull request. And at the end of the event, participants who presented their progress received T-shirts and MoveIt stickers!
See you next year!
