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Introducing rclrs: the official ROS 2 client library for Rust

UB2.147 | Day 1 | 13:25 - 13:50 | Speakers: Esteve Fernández

Introducing rclrs: the official ROS 2 client library for Rust
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Abstract

Rust offers many advantages for robotics. One key benefit is its memory safety, which helps prevent critical bugs in complex systems. Additionally, its high performance is essential for real-time applications, while safe concurrency allows for efficient parallel processing, crucial for multi-core robotic systems.

This talk will present rclrs (https://github.com/ros2-rust/ros2_rust), the Rust client library for ROS 2, and its accompanying tooling. rclrs is being developed in the open by a community of Rust and ROS enthusiasts. Support for Rust is now part of ROS 2 rolling and will be shipped in the next ROS 2 releases.

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Esteve Fernández

Esteve Fernández is one of the original authors of ROS 2, and has been involved in the ROS community for almost 15 years, both as a core member of the ROS team at Open Robotics and as an external contributor.

With over 20 years of experience in the free and open-source space, Esteve frequently contributes to FOSS projects and has spoken at notable conferences such as ROSCon, ROSCon FR, PyCon US, PyCon ES, and EuroPython. He has been a member of the Apache Software Foundation since 2009. He has been a committer at the Boost C++, Python Twisted and Apache Thrift, among many other projects.

He currently works as a Robotics Architect at Tier IV with a focus on Autoware, the world's leading open-source software platform for autonomous driving.

He can be found at https://www.linkedin.com/in/estevefernandez

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