The world of today continues its progress toward higher digitalization and mobility. From developments in the Internet of Things (IoT) through augmented reality to Industry 4.0, whichrely on stronger automation and use of robots, all of these bring more efficiency to production processes and improves user experience across the globe. According to some estimates, these systems will become the norm in wealthy households before 2040.
Nowadays, however, these “robots” are not limited to futuristic humanoid machines. They include various devices, such as robot arms in factories or delivery robots, autonomous cars, automated baby sitters, etc.
Digitized systems of the future will involve deployable robotic systems in highly networked environments, remotely communicating with various services and systems for higher efficiency. While for now, this is only expected to happen, and we cannot talk about real truly functional deployable robotic systems, there are already certain developments in that area.
Robot Operating System
The research and development community, established around a shared interest in the future of robotics, initially required a unified and standard platform. To achieve that, back in 2007, Willow Garage introduced Robot Operating System (ROS), essentially a collection of middleware frameworks for robot software development, and a distributed system providing a mechanism for nodes to exchange information over a network. It operates like a service for distribution of data among various nodes in a system. A central master service is responsible for tracking published and subscribed topics, and provides a parameter server for nodes to store various metadata. Nodes can publish data as topics by ad ..
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