Sharing Software with ROS [ROS Topics]

Author

Cousins, Steve ; Gerkey, Brian ; Conley, Ken ; Garage, Willow

Volume

17

Issue

2

fYear

2010

fDate

6/1/2010 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

12

Lastpage

14

Abstract

Robot operating system (ROS) is designed to promote code sharing and enable the development of open-source robotics commons. Sharing code will help the robotics community to progress faster by letting the researchers in the community replicate and extend the results of other research groups. ROS makes it easy to find the software and integrate it into robot systems. This article discusses about how sharing is facilitated by ros.org Web site. ROS contains the software stacks for everything, from building blocks such as controllers and filters to applications. ROS is making it possible for researchers around the world to work together to advance robotics.

Keywords

Web sites; control engineering computing; public domain software; robot programming; code sharing; open-source robotics development; research groups; robot operating system; robotics community; ros.org; software stacks; Acceleration; Computer architecture; Filters; Hardware; Open source software; Operating systems; Packaging; Robots; Software packages; Technological innovation;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Robotics & Automation Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1070-9932

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MRA.2010.936956

Filename

5480439