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Everything about Robot Operating System

Set of software frameworks for robot software development

Robot Operating System is an open-source robotics middleware suite. Although ROS is not an operating system (OS) but a set of software frameworks for robot software development, it provides services designed for a heterogeneous computer cluster such as hardware abstraction, low-level device control, implementation of commonly used functionality, message-passing between processes, and package management. Running sets of ROS-based processes are represented in a graph architecture where processing takes place in nodes that may receive, post, and multiplex sensor data, control, state, planning, actuator, and other messages. Wikipedia →

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

  1. Read the overview: Robot Operating SystemA 5-minute orientation
  2. Skim a recent paper: Robot Operating System 2: Design, architecture, and uses in the wildInfluential work since 2022
  3. Pick up a classic book: Cognitive work analysisThe most-reprinted book on the subject
  4. Read the landmark paper: ROSPlan: Planning in the Robot Operating SystemCited 183 times
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  1. Overview
  2. History
  3. Design
  4. Tools
  5. Packages of note
  6. Versions and releases
  7. ROS-compatible robots and hardware
  8. Related projects

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🆕 Influential since 2022

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