June 2025 monthly summary for JdeRobot/RoboticsAcademy focusing on ROS2 thread error handling improvements and log noise reduction.

May 2025 monthly summary for JdeRobot/RoboticsAcademy focused on stabilizing the ROS2 Humble HAL. Implemented robust error handling in the __auto_spin loop by wrapping executor.spin_once() in a try-except block across multiple HAL modules, reducing crash risk and improving runtime stability. The change enhances reliability for end users and lays groundwork for future resilience improvements.

March 2025: RoboticsAcademy improvements focused on robustness and developer experience. Implemented a critical cleanup invocation in the academy script and added Docker Compose v2 detection with a prompt to install if missing, ensuring clean resource handling and smoother local development.

February 2025 monthly summary for JdeRobot/RoboticsAcademy. Focused on delivering a robust Real-time Factor (RTF) measurement overhaul and GUI modernization, with improved reliability, modularity, and integration with ROS 2 and WebSocket. The work includes a new MeasuringThreadingGUIH class to measure and report RTF and frequency, GUI refactoring to inherit from the new class, and a robust data-gathering workflow with a fallback from gz stats to ign topic. In addition, harmonic analysis support was added, with a new harmonic class and tests, enabling Gazebo harmonic RTF to run end-to-end.

December 2024 performance summary: Delivered end-to-end localization and simulation enhancements across RoboticsAcademy and RoboticsInfrastructure, strengthening training capabilities, accuracy, and developer productivity. Implemented marker-based localization exercise integrated with ROS 2 Humble and Gazebo Harmonic, an updated simulation world with AprilTag-based localization, and odometry improvements for TurtleBot3, along with cross-repo infrastructure alignment and new localization resources. These deliverables enable more realistic, debuggable modules and a scalable foundation for future exercises.