November 2025 Gazebo Community Meeting
For this community meeting one of our 2025 GSoC students, Helena Moyen, will discuss her work building GPU accelerated sonar simulations for Project DAVE.
“The goal of this GSoC project was to migrate the DAVE Multibeam Sonar plugin from ROS 1 and Gazebo Classic to ROS 2 and Gazebo Harmonic, while also improving its CUDA acceleration. We developed a custom rendering sensor and optimized GPU performance by reusing buffers, reducing unnecessary memory transfers, using intrinsic functions, and replacing custom kernels with cuBLAS routines. As a result, we achieved a 12.6× speedup for a single sonar frame. This makes underwater sonar simulations faster and more efficient, enabling better training and testing of underwater robotic systems.”
Here’s the agenda:
Latest news from Open Robotics about Gazebo - Addisu Tadesse, Intrinsic.
Accelerating Physics-Based Multibeam Sonar Simulation for Underwater Robotics on CUDA - Helena Moyen, University of São Paulo.
Optional: Lighting talks
We opened a slot for short (2 minutes) lighting presentations. If you’re interested in talking about your maritime project contact me (caguero AT honurobotics DOT com) and I’ll book your slot.