Tutorial: Practical Mesh Networking in Field Robotics

Welcome to the Practical Mesh Networking in Field Robotics Tutorial to be held at IROS 2022 in Kyoto, Japan!

Day: Sunday October 23rd, 9AM – Noon

Final slides: RESOURCES

Goals

This tutorial workshop is designed to introduce participants to practical mesh networking options available to the contemporary field roboticist. Over the course of the tutorial, participants will hear about the strengths and weaknesses of several solutions employed by teams from the DARPA Subterranean Challenge. As part of the tutorial, organizers will build up a complete mesh networking stack from scratch within a ROS ecosystem suitable for practical deployments. At the conclusion of the tutorial, participants will be informed about the practical design tradeoffs of current mesh networking solutions.

Teams Represented

Format

We will have a series of panel talks organized by OSI network layer, where each team’s comm lead will present their team’s communication solution. Each panel session will include audience Q&A, as well as live demos where possible on actual hardware.

Update 22 Oct: Due to COVID requirements, the workshop will only run from 9:00 to 12:00. As a consequence, we are compressing the schedule, below:

Final Schedule

Sponsors

We are looking for additional sponsors – if you would like to contribute to the success of this workshop, please contact the organizers!

Organizers:

Please don’t hesitate to contact us with inquiries about this tutorial or suggestions for program items!