ROS-Industrial

An open-source project and consortium that brings ROS to industrial robots and manufacturing.

ROS-Industrial is an open-source project that extends ROS into industrial automation. It was launched around 2012, led by the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in the US, and is now maintained by three regional consortia covering North America, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific, with members including equipment vendors, manufacturers, and research institutions. It provides ROS drivers and description packages for industrial arms from various brands, integration with MoveIt (the ROS motion-planning framework), and tooling for “scan–plan–execute” applications such as sanding and spray painting. Its significance is letting perception and planning algorithms already developed in academia connect to factory-floor hardware, cutting down the work of writing a separate integration for every controller brand.

ExampleUse an ABB or FANUC driver package provided by ROS-Industrial to send a trajectory planned by MoveIt to a real industrial robot arm for execution.

Also called

ROS-I

Related

Robot Operating System · Robot Operating System 2 · MoveIt Motion Planning Framework · Industrial Robot · Unified Robot Description Format · System Integrator

Sources

ROS-Industrial 官网 (Chinese)
ROS-Industrial GitHub