Robot Operating System
A lot of people hear about ROS and will be like what's that today i made up my mind to write an article on that so
ROS is a collection of
software frameworks for
robot software development, providing
operating system-like functionality on a heterogeneous
computer cluster. ROS provides standard operating system services such as
hardware abstraction, low-level
device control, implementation of commonly used functionality, 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, control, state, planning, actuator and other
messages. ROS, itself, is
not a
real-time OS (RTOS), though it is possible to integrate ROS with real-time code. ROS was written in C++ or Python and is also a Linux operating System.
ROS was developed originally in 2007 under the name
switchyard by the
Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in support of the Stanford AI Robot STAIR (STanford AI Robot) project.
ROS client libraries (
C++,
Python,
LISP) are geared toward a
Unix-like
system, primarily because of their dependence on large collections of
open-source software dependencies. For these client libraries,
Ubuntu Linux is listed as "Supported" while other variants such as
Fedora Linux,
Mac OS X, and
Microsoft Windows are designated "Experimental" and are supported by the community.The native Java ROS client library,
rosjava, however, does not share these limitations and has enabled ROS-based software to be written for the
Android OS. Rosjava has also enabled ROS to be integrated into an officially-supported
MATLAB toolbox which can be used on
Linux,
Mac OS X, and
Microsoft Windows.
A
JavaScript client library,
roslibjs has also been developed which enables integration of software into a ROS system via any standards-compliant web browser.
In my latter post i'll be writing an article on how to install ROS
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