Dear ROS community:

We are proud to announce the ROS-Industrial software repository.

ROS-Industrial is a BSD-licensed ROS stack that contains libraries, tools and drivers for industrial hardware. The goals of ROS-Industrial are to:

· Create a community supported by industrial robotics researchers and professionals

· Provide a one-stop location for industry-related ROS applications

· Develop robust and reliable software that meets the needs of industrial applications

· Combine the relative strengths of ROS with existing industrial technologies (i.e. combining ROS high-level functionality with the low-level reliability and safety of industrial robot controllers).

· Create standard interfaces to stimulate "hardware-agnostic" software development (using standardized ROS messages)

· Provide an easy path to apply cutting-edge research in industrial applications, using a common ROS architecture

· Provide simple, easy-to-use, well-documented APIs

ROS-Industrial is at pre-1.0-release level. It currently supports ROS control (arm navigation with collision free path planning) for the Motoman SIA10D and DX100 controller. The software works with actual hardware or a simulated robot in rviz.

Check out a video of our progress so far:

We'd like to invite others to use this software and contribute new applications and interfaces, particularly ROS drivers for different industrial robot platforms.

Special thanks to early contributors:

Southwest Research Institute®
Yaskawa Motoman Robotics
Willow Garage

Link: swri-ros-pkg

Shaun Edwards

Senior Research Engineer

Manufacturing System Department

http://robotics.swri.org

http://rosindustrial.swri.org/

http://ros.swri.org

Southwest Research Institute

210-522-3277