Matooba
August 15th, 2009, 02:31 PM
Nevertheless, roboticists are starting to make some headway.The Robot Operating System or ROS (http://ros.sourceforge.net/browse/list.php) is an open-source set of programs meant to serve as a common platform for a wide range of robotics research. It is being developed and used by teams at Stanford University in California, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Technical University of Munich, Germany, among others.
ROS has software commands that, for instance, provide ways of controlling a robot's navigation, and its arms, grippers and sensors, without needing details of how the hardware functions. The system also includes high-level commands for actions (http://ros.sourceforge.net/browse/list.php) like image recognition and even opening doors. When ROS boots up on a robot's computer, it asks for a description of the robot that includes things like the length of its arm segments and how the joints rotate. It then makes this information available to the higher-level
algorithms.
A standard OS would also help researchers focus on a key aspect that so far has been lacking in robotics: reproducibility.
More info here: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327206.300-robots-to-get-their-own-operating-system.html
R.O.S. Source found here: http://ros.sourceforge.net/browse/list.php
ROS has software commands that, for instance, provide ways of controlling a robot's navigation, and its arms, grippers and sensors, without needing details of how the hardware functions. The system also includes high-level commands for actions (http://ros.sourceforge.net/browse/list.php) like image recognition and even opening doors. When ROS boots up on a robot's computer, it asks for a description of the robot that includes things like the length of its arm segments and how the joints rotate. It then makes this information available to the higher-level
algorithms.
A standard OS would also help researchers focus on a key aspect that so far has been lacking in robotics: reproducibility.
More info here: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327206.300-robots-to-get-their-own-operating-system.html
R.O.S. Source found here: http://ros.sourceforge.net/browse/list.php