foxglove.dev

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adrian@foxglove.dev

Foxglove founders

Adrian Macneil (CEO)

�Previously:�Director, Infrastructure & Developer Tools @ Cruise (2016-2020)

Roman Shtylman (CTO)

�Previously:�Manager, Autonomous Vehicle Platform Engineering @ Cruise

Building robots at scale

ROS development at Cruise

• ROS 1 based system
• From 20 engineers to 1000+ engineers

Challenges scaling ROS

• Visualization
• Data (bag file) management
• Deterministic simulations
• Reproducible development environments
• Fast build & CI
• Deployment

Foxglove Goals

• Accelerate the robotics industry with high quality development tools,�starting with visualization
• Lower the barrier to entry and learning curve for robotics engineers
• Open source as much as possible
• Contribute upstream wherever possible
• Commercial solutions available for larger customers to fund our development

ROS visualization today

• ROS robots → Disparate apps �(rviz, rqt, etc)
• Linux-only*
• Different app for each visualization�(3d, image, plot, rosout, etc)
• Requires local ROS development environment
• No “seek/scrubbing” support
• No team collaboration
• Non-ROS robots → Nothing :(

Foxglove Studio

Foxglove Studio

• Free & open source
• Cross-platform (web or desktop)
• Native ROS 1 + ROS 2 support
• Drag & drop bag files, no dependencies or CLI tools needed
• View 3D, images, plots, diagnostics
• Publishing/teleop support
• Extensible 🥳

Foxglove ROS Contributions

• Taken over maintenance of rosbridge_suite and RobotWebTools org, updated rosbridge to support ROS 2
• Running ROS Web Working Group (created June 2021) with biweekly meetings
• Maintaining over 20 JavaScript NPM modules for interacting with ROS
• Contributing to ROSBag
• MCAP recording file format proposal + development

Questions?��Live Demo?