Introduction

• Starter questions
  • Who knows what FSAI is?
  • Who was here last year?
  • Who’s looked through the Notion Hub?
  • Who’s looked through the ‘Getting started with ROS page’?
  • Who has experience in robotics?
  • Who has experience with ROS?
• Introductions from committee
• What to expect from these workshops?
  • We want these workshops to be the touch point for where General Members and Core Team can work on the project together on a weekly/bi-weekly basis.
  • Develop a community of people interested in ML, robotics, autonomous vehicles, etc.
  • Informal sessions
  • Independent training in these workshops
  • Opportunity to ask questions for more experienced members
  • Hope is eventually everyone will want to join Core Team and feel technically competent enough to do so
  • We’ve structured this one as a “drop-in”, so some people may turn up halfway-through.
    • However, since I’m on my own today, I might not be able to cater to everyone!
• Other (expert) workshops
  • Mike Wray will give some ML workshops (tailored to our needs and FSAI-specific)
  • We’re looking too getting some ROS/mobile robotics workshops — but the online stuff is good for now!

Objectives for this workshop

• Know what FSAI is and what we’re doing
• Get setup with ROS and eufs_sim
• Decide on a day for our first social and next workshop
• Assign “homework”
• Optional
  • Form Core Team (possibly assign roles and tasks)
  • Look through notion guides (Intro to the Autonomous Driving System has just been uploaded!)

Intro to Bristol FSAI

• Go through Bristol FSAI Hub
  • What is FSAI?
  • Watch starter videos (fsai competition page)
  • How will Bristol compete?
  • Teams structure and roadmap
  • Other things
    • What is ROS?
    • School of CS is sponsoring this (through Mike Fraser)
    • Socials with Bristol Racing are likely — we will eventually integrate with their society
• Meet the group

  • Course

    

  • Skills

    

  • 62 — 1st years

  • 26 — 2/3/4th years & post grads

  • Do any of the more experienced members want to share their ROS/robotics experience?

Getting setup with EUFS sim

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THERE ARE NO STUPID QUESTIONS

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New MacBooks might have problems running eufs_sim-docker.

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• Get setup with https://github.com/Formula-Student-AI/eufs_sim-docker
  • Try:
    • Driving around the car in Manual Drive mode
    • List topics and their messages to see what data is published/subscribed to (eufs_msgs contains lots of custom messages which the sim depends on)
    • Try to visualise camera, point cloud, and other data/topics in Rviz (make sure QoS is configured correctly)
      • Tips: Seeing Zed camera image and depth in rviz

End of session