Success-Plan Services
Juan Carlos Chaves
After more than two years of development, ROS 2 Lyrical Luth is now generally available. Here at RTI, we’re pleased to announce some significant RTI Connext enhancements to go with this latest ROS 2 LTS.
These enhancements build on the Connext Robotics Toolkit we launched in March, further speeding your prototype-to-production journey. They include:
Higher Performance, Scalability and Security
ROS Lyrical supports the latest Connext 7.7 LTS release. Connext 7.7 improvements include faster discovery with less network overhead, reduced memory footprint, and enhanced security.
Turnkey ARM Support
The Connext Robotics Toolkit now provides one-step Debian installation on Ubuntu ARM64 in addition to AMD64. You can be up and running with ROS Lyrical and Connext in less than 10 minutes on popular ARM platforms including Raspberry Pi and NVIDIA Orin.
Improved Ecosystem Interoperability
Production systems often integrate applications that natively use ROS, DDS and standards built on DDS such as AUTOSAR, UMAA and GVA. Even though DDS is a common denominator across these, heterogeneous applications historically couldn’t interoperate because ROS requires a specific naming scheme for DDS Topics and Types. Connext 7.7 overcomes this through the addition of Type and Topic Aliasing to automatically map between ROS and non-ROS names.
Getting Started
One thing that isn’t changing with ROS Lyrical and Connext 7.7: friction-free startup. The Connext Robotics Toolkit is free for academic and non-commercial use, research, prototyping and evaluation.
Ready to get started or want to learn more? See this community forum article for installation instructions and a how-to guide for Topic and Type Aliasing.
About the author:
Juan Carlos Chaves is a Senior Software Engineer at RTI, where he leads engineering efforts across a diverse range of projects. Since joining RTI in 2018, he has led key initiatives such as the Web Integration Service and the Dockerization of RTI products, in addition to his recent work on the Connext RMW integration for ROS 2. With a strong background in real-time distributed systems, interoperability, and middleware, he focuses on developing scalable and reliable solutions within RTI’s suite of products. Juan Carlos is dedicated to enhancing developer experience, improving system scalability, and ensuring that advanced communication technologies are accessible and dependable across various domains.