The ROS Awards are the Oscars of the ROS world! The intention of those awards is to specific recognition for contributions to the ROS neighborhood and the event of the ROS-based robotic business, and to assist these contributions acquire consciousness.
Circumstances
- Choice of the winners is made by nameless on-line voting over a interval of two weeks
- Anyone within the ROS neighborhood can vote by means of the voting enabled web site
- Organizers of the awards present an preliminary checklist of 10 potential tasks for every class however the checklist might be elevated at any time by anyone in the course of the voting interval
- For the reason that Awards are organized by The Assemble none of its merchandise or builders might be voted
- Winners are introduced on the ROS Builders Day yearly convention
- New on 2022 version: Winners of earlier editions can’t win once more, to be able to not focus the deal with the identical tasks on a regular basis. Keep in mind, with these awards, we wish to assist unfold all ROS tasks!
Voting
- Each particular person can solely vote as soon as in every class
- You can’t change your solutions after getting submitted your vote
- Voting is closed 3 days earlier than the convention, and an inventory of the finalists per every class is introduced in the identical week
- Voters can’t use flaws within the system to affect voting. Any detection of attempting to trick the system will disqualify the votes. You’ll be able to, although, promote your favourite amongst your networks so others vote for it.
Measures have been taken to forestall as a lot as potential batch voting from a single particular person.
Classes
Finest ROS Software program
The Finest ROS Software program class contains any software program that runs with ROS. It may be a bundle revealed on the ROS.org repo of only a software program that makes use of ROS libraries to supply an enter. Open Supply and closed supply are each legitimate.
Finalists
- Ignition Gazebo, by Open Robotics
- Groot Conduct Tree, by Davide Faconti
- Webots, by Cyberbotics
- SMACC2, by Brett Aldrich
- ros2_control, by a number of ROS builders
- PlotJuggler, by Davide Faconti
Winner: Webots, by Cyberbotics
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Finest ROS-Based mostly Robotic
The Finest ROS-Based mostly Robotic class consists of any robotic that runs ROS inside it. They are often robotics merchandise, robots for analysis, or robots for schooling. In all instances, they have to be operating ROS inside.
Finalists
- Panda robotic arm, by Franka Emika
- TIAGo, by Pal Robotics
- UR robotic arm, by Common Robots
- Turtlebot 4, by Clearpath
- Nanosaur, by Raffaello Bonghi
- Leo Rover, by Leo Rover
Winner: Nanosaur, by Raffaello Bonghi
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Finest ROS Developer
Builders are those that create all of the ROS software program that we love. The Finest ROS Developer class means that you can vote for any developer who has contributed to ROS improvement in a single sense or one other.
Finalists
- Francisco Martín
- Davide Faconti
- Raffaello Bonghi
- Brett Aldrich
- Victor Mayoral Vilches
- Pradheep Krishna
Winner: Francisco Martín
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Insights from the 2022 Version
- This yr, the third time we organise the awards, we’ve elevated the full variety of votes by 500% So we will say that the winners are a great illustration of the sentiments of the neighborhood.
- Nonetheless this yr, the winners of earlier editions obtained many votes. Luckily, we utilized the brand new rule of not permitting to win earlier winners, to offer house for different ROS tasks have the deal with the neighborhood, and therefore assist to create a wealthy ROS ecosystem.
Conclusions
The ROS Awards began in 2020 with a primary version the place the winners had been a number of the greatest and well-known tasks within the ROS world. On this third version, we’ve massively elevated the variety of votes from the earlier version. We count on this award will proceed to contribute to the spreading of fine ROS tasks.
See you once more at ROS Awards 2023!
tags: open supply
Ricardo Téllez
is Co-founder and CTO of The Assemble
