Robot Operating System 2: Design, architecture, and uses in the wild

🤖 Plain-English Summary

The next chapter of the robotics revolution is well underway with the deployment of robots for a broad range of commercial use cases. In this Review, we highlight the philosophical and architectural changes of ROS 2 powering this new chapter in the robotics revolution.

🔑 Key Findings

• Even in a myriad of applications and environments, there exists a common vocabulary of components that robots share-the need for a modular, scalable, and reliable architecture; sensing; planning; mobility; and autonomy.
• The Robot Operating System (ROS) was an integral part of the last chapter, demonstrably expediting robotics research with freely available components and a modular framework.
• However, ROS 1 was not designed with many necessary production-grade features and algorithms.

🔗 Related Resources