Quick Start Resources for ROS Developers (Bookmark These!)

Robotics & Autonomous Systems(ROS/ROS2)
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Hi y’all! Whether you are deploying an AMR on a factory floor, configuring a smart robotic arm, or optimizing edge AI vision pipelines, this space is built to help you bypass deployment obstacles.

:play_button: What You Can Do Here

  • Get Technical Support: Stuck on a ROS2 driver, serial communication, or real-time patch configuration? Post your questions here—Advantech’s robotics engineers monitor this space weekily

  • Share Your Projects: Show off your custom rigs, custom 3D-printable chassis, and field deployment videos.

  • Validate Hardware: Discover and discuss verified compatibility for LiDARs, depth cameras (Intel RealSense, etc.), and motor controllers on the community.

:light_bulb: Bookmark these links to accelerate your development:

  1. Advantech Robotics Suite : Github Watch Video
    This is an integrated software environment designed to accelerate the development, deployment, and management of robotic applications. Robotic Suite bundles the key software components typically needed for modern AMR development. Download it from Github and give it a try. Let us know your feedback!
  2. Robotics Solutions eBook: View Online
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great to see a dedicated robotics space here. I’m currently building an AMR for warehouse pallet mapping, and I’ve spent the last three days wrestling with cross-compiling custom I/O drivers for our motor controllers on ARM64.

Right now, we are testing this on an Advantech AFE-R750. If the Robotics suite actually has the pre-configured ROS2 containers ready to go out-of-the-box, it’s going to save our team weeks of deployment hell.

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Welcome, @TodayisMyDay! Getting motor controllers talking nicely to isolated ROS2 containers without adding latency is a tough hurdle.

Are you running a standard kernel configuration on the AFE-R750 right now, or have you looked into checking out the real-time patch capabilities? The Robotics Suite templates include some environment optimizations specifically for low-latency actuator feedback loops.

Keep us posted on your progress, and feel free to drop your terminal logs here if you hit any walls while linking up the motor controllers!