Brussels / 31 January & 1 February 2026

schedule

Robotics and Simulation


09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
Saturday Welcome to the Robotics and Simulation devroom
"Turning a cheap commercial vacuum cleaner into a useful Open Source mapping tool"
Calibrate good times! The tools and methods to get top-quality robot data.
Bridging robotics and systems programming: Why Copper-rs is a game changer
Apptainer: Easy Containerization for Robotics
Just1 - An Open-Source Autonomous Mecanum Wheel Robot
Modernizing ROS 2 Skills: Hacking and Orchestrating Cloud Brains, Physical Sensors, and the Network
Benchmarking platform for robot localization systems
rosidlcpp: A Journey Through ROS2 Build Time Optimization
A Core Developer's insights on Gazebo's Future
Introducing rclrs: the official ROS 2 client library for Rust
Open-Source Robotics in Practice: Lessons from Upkie Wheeled Bipeds
Middleware Pain? Meet iceoryx2
Precision Landing with PX4 and ROS 2 using Aruco Markers
Simple, Safe, Open: Building Your First ROS 2 Rover with Rust and Pixi
Vehicle Dynamics Sim: accurately and easily simulate actuation limits
Productionising ROS when you have no choice (with Bazel)
ArduPilot Advanced Integration
The Technical Stacks Behind Botronics’ iXi Autonomous Golf Trolley
ROS-Z: A Rust/Zenoh-native stack, fully ROS 2-compliant
EasyNav: An open-source framework for navigating everywhere
AutoAPMS: Lightweight and versatile integration of behavior trees into the ROS 2 ecosystem
PlotJuggler: the log visualization tool loved by roboticists

Read the Call for Papers at https://robotics-devroom.github.io/cfp/fosdem26.

Event Speakers Start End

Saturday

  Welcome to the Robotics and Simulation devroom
Arnaud Taffanel 10:30 10:35
  "Turning a cheap commercial vacuum cleaner into a useful Open Source mapping tool"
Stef Dillo 10:35 11:00
  Calibrate good times! The tools and methods to get top-quality robot data.
Roland Meertens, Sam Pfeiffer 11:05 11:30
  Bridging robotics and systems programming: Why Copper-rs is a game changer
Guillaume BINET 11:35 12:00
  Apptainer: Easy Containerization for Robotics
Malte Schrader 12:05 12:10
  Just1 - An Open-Source Autonomous Mecanum Wheel Robot
Nicolas Rodriguez 12:10 12:15
  Modernizing ROS 2 Skills: Hacking and Orchestrating Cloud Brains, Physical Sensors, and the Network
Miguel Xochicale 12:15 12:20
  Benchmarking platform for robot localization systems
Agustin Alba Chicar 12:20 12:25
  rosidlcpp: A Journey Through ROS2 Build Time Optimization
Anthony Welte 12:25 12:30
  A Core Developer's insights on Gazebo's Future
Jose Luis Rivero 12:35 13:20
  Introducing rclrs: the official ROS 2 client library for Rust
Esteve Fernández 13:25 13:50
  Open-Source Robotics in Practice: Lessons from Upkie Wheeled Bipeds
Stéphane Caron 13:55 14:20
  Middleware Pain? Meet iceoryx2
Michael Poehnl 14:25 14:50
  Precision Landing with PX4 and ROS 2 using Aruco Markers
Ramon Roche, Beniamino Pozzan 14:55 15:20
  Simple, Safe, Open: Building Your First ROS 2 Rover with Rust and Pixi
Christophe Simon, Nicolas Daube 15:25 15:35
  Vehicle Dynamics Sim: accurately and easily simulate actuation limits
Arne Baeyens 15:35 15:45
  Productionising ROS when you have no choice (with Bazel)
Ricardo Delfin 15:45 15:55
  ArduPilot Advanced Integration
PIERRE KANCIR 15:55 16:05
  The Technical Stacks Behind Botronics’ iXi Autonomous Golf Trolley
Antoine Van Malleghem, Enzo Ghisoni, David Moli 16:10 16:55
  ROS-Z: A Rust/Zenoh-native stack, fully ROS 2-compliant
Julien Enoch 17:00 17:25
  EasyNav: An open-source framework for navigating everywhere
Francisco Martín Rico, Francisco Miguel Moreno 17:30 17:55
  AutoAPMS: Lightweight and versatile integration of behavior trees into the ROS 2 ecosystem
Robin Müller 18:00 18:25
  PlotJuggler: the log visualization tool loved by roboticists
Davide Faconti 18:30 18:55