Revisiting ROS on GoPiGo3 - 10 Year History

GoPiGo3 ROS 10-Year History (as of May 2026)

  • Floris Van Bruegal wrote a very basic rosgopigo in 2016
  • Surfertas (HongKong) wrote a “state predicter” ros-gopigo later in 2016
  • Christian Rauch created and updated a ros-gopigo in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020
  • Richard Wang created an intro to ROS course using the GoPiGo3 in 2016
  • TIS/nmatsui/tech-sketch created a MQTT ROS node to control a ROS GoPiGo3 node in 2017/2018 (FIWARE Orion context broker)
  • taityo/iot-magi mated the YDLIDAR X4 to the GoPiGo3 (with full instructions and videos) in 2018
  • Thomas Lehmann (Post-Doctoral Fellow) was using ROS with the GoPiGo3 in 2018
  • Mattias Nacimento (Rio De Janeiro) implemented a line following ROS GoPiGo3 in 2019
  • Peng Xu used X-Box controller to drive his ROS GoPiGo3 in 2019
  • “tripincloud”(Undergrad Sorbonne U.) built a ROS GoPiGo3 in 2020
  • Albert Alvarez (Barcelona) developed a team course for “Learning ROS with GoPiGo” in 2020
  • Bernardo R. Japon: “Hands On ROS For Robotics Programming: Program highly autonomous and AI-capable mobile robots powered by ROS”, Packt Publishing, 2020
  • ManuelPuig and enrip19 built a WALL FOLLOWING JupyterLab for ROS GoPiGo3 in 2021
  • MGubbi created a web page ROS bot controller for a ROS GoPiGo in 2021
  • Jean Vanhay (Belgium) created a ROS-IOP bridge to control a ROS GoPiGo3 2021
  • ROS2-GoPiGo3 “v4 Image” Slowrunner 2022
  • ROS Noetic Image for use with Hands On ROS book Nov 2023
  • ROS2-GoPiGo3 “Foxy” ran 1k Nov 2023
  • Humble-Dave 9 Nov 2023
  • GoPi5Go-Dave Mar 2024 (Humble in Docker)
  • ROS2-GoPiGo3 “v5 Image” Slowrunner published Dec 2023
  • Humble-Dave2 Apr 2025 (Pi5 i2c died)
  • Kilted-Dave May 2025

Lyrical-Dave is in planning (over PiOS Trixie-Lite with the new ModRobotics GoPiGo3 installer)

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Wow! Many more names than I was aware of!

Thanks!

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