Highlights from ROSCon 2025 and Scan-N-Plan Overview
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Michael Ripperger will reprise the talk he gave at ROSCon 2025 on Scan-N-Plan. ROSCon is the flagship 3-day annual conference for the Robot Operating System (ROS) project, hosted by the Open Source Robotics Foundation. This conference provides the community with an opportunity to discuss the project roadmap and new developments in the ROS ecosystem and to share interesting work using ROS across a variety of robotics fields. We'll share highlights from the conference as well as an overview of the sponsor workshop we presented about the ROS-based Scan-N-Plan framework maintained by SwRI through ROS-Industrial.
Scan-N-Plan is a suite of tools that enable real-time robot trajectory planning from 3D scan data. Traditional industrial robot programming is performed using either online, teach-pendant programming or offline programming with a simulated version of the robot and work piece. The Scan-N-Plan approach overcomes limitations in traditional robot programming for applications that have highly variable part mixes such that hand programming is impractical or do not have CAD part models available.
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- 145 Tom Slick Ave
- San Antonio, Texas
- United States 78238
- Building: SwRI Cafeteria
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- Starts 22 December 2025 06:00 PM UTC
- Ends 21 January 2026 06:00 PM UTC
- No Admission Charge
Speakers
Michael Ripperger of Southwest Research Institute
Biography:
Michael is a senior research engineer at Southwest Research Institute where he develops software for advanced, perception-driven robotics systems that operate in dynamic environments. He also serves as the technical lead of the ROS-Industrial Americas Consortium, which stewards open-source robotics software tools for industrial and manufacturing use-cases.
Agenda
11:30: Lunch and Networking time
11:45: Virtual meeting will be opened (with time to troubleshoot any technical glitches)
11:55: Program Begins with brief remarks related to IEEE/RAS
12:00: Main Presentation begins
12:45: Questions
1:00: Meeting Ends