DDS middleware, real-time profiles, and the ROS-Industrial consortium — a controls engineer's map of the Robot Operating System.
Robotics
Industrial robots, cobots, mobile manipulators, and robot software.
The base standard models anything; companion specs model your industry. How to find, read, and actually use them.
Fixed paths versus autonomous navigation — capabilities, fleet management, safety, and which one your material flow needs.
IndexROS: Robot Operating System (ros.org)
The Robot Operating System project: ROS 2 documentation, middleware (DDS), packages, and the industrial (ROS-Industrial) consortium.
Terms in this topic
- Cobot
- Robot designed for fenceless work near people, with safety-rated limits.
- DDS
- Pub/sub middleware standard; the transport under ROS 2.
- Robotics
- Industrial, collaborative, and mobile robots.
- ROS
- Open framework for robot software, now DDS-based.