Release Notes

Version	Release Date
Pre-alpha	2024-07-01

QRB ROS Pre-alpha July, 30, 2024

This inaugural release of QRB ROS offers enhanced Qualcomm hardware acceleration for robots, introducing new features such as:

Updates including:

Introduction of the new repository qrb_ros_imu, enabling low-latency access to the IMU sensor mounted on the Sensor DSP.
Launch of the new repository qrb_ros_transport, featuring a hardware-accelerated transport mechanism based on dmabuf.
Release of the new repository qrb_ros_camera, facilitating easy access to the Qualcomm CameraX system via ROS, with hardware acceleration support.
Debut of the new repository qrb_ros_colorspace_convert, designed to convert YUV to RGB using Qualcomm GPU, with hardware acceleration support.

This release has the following known limitations, with workarounds available in the troubleshooting section: