TechCrunch 2020
I sit on the Robot Operating System’s (ROS) Technical Steering Committee and chair the Navigation Working Group.
I lead the Nav2 project, the world's finest mobile robot navigation framework. I have developed novel contributions in the areas of Planning, Control, SLAM, Perception, and Robotics Architecture. I’m also one of the top experts globally on ROS2.
I primarily work in 3 major themes: novel academic contributions, open-source development and community building, and internal robotics research and product consulting.
My work focuses on creating missing technologies to enable broad larger-scale commercialization of robots, with an emphasis on reliability and flexibility. With that mission, little is outside of my domain of interest and impact.
ROSCon 2020 Keynote: Nav2 Is Ready
ROS 2’s Navigation Framework
2021 Best Software Award!
https://navigation.ros.org/
Featured Work
Publications
The Marathon 2: A Navigation System
2020 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
A Comparison of Modern General-Purpose Visual SLAM Approaches
2021 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
Spatio-temporal voxel layer: A view on robot perception for the dynamic world
International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems
Robot Operating System 2: Design, architecture, and uses in the wild
Science Robotics
SLAM Toolbox: SLAM for the dynamic world
Journal of Open Source Software
See the full list, including industry publications and press, at the link below.
Robots
Awards
What Others Are Saying
“[He] is one of the luminaries in ROS2 community with his proven expertise in navigation, perception and several other core components in robotics. ”
“[He] is an inspirational developer and important influencer in the open source robotics space.”
“Steve has demonstrated an exceptional talent for both community management and software engineering, growing the project while simultaneously leading the development of important new capabilities.”