Hardware acceleration can revolutionize robotics enabling faster and more power efficient robots. Through FPGAs and GPUs, ROS 2 developers can build accelerators that outperform the traditional CPU centric dataflows . The diversity of acceleration options makes it difficult for roboticists to easily deploy accelerated systems. That's what Acceleration Robotics brings to the ROS world and has contributed by leading the ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration Working Group. In this talk, Víctor Mayoral
Vilches (CTO & Founder of Acceleration Robotics) will present the architectural pillars and conventions required to introduce hardware acceleration in ROS 2.