Hi! I have brought new project news related to **ROS2**. The name of this project is **XEL Network** **"XEL"** is a word derived from the robot actuator **"DYNAMIXEL"** and uses the characteristics of DYNAMIXEL communication. ![concept|690x218](upload://yGagqAdFTIYOdFy1svBV4rywYBY.jpeg) The **main concept** of this project is **to standardize it so that robot hardware can be configured more easily using the features of DDS used in ROS2**. The **GOALS** of this project are as follows. - **Generalization** of Software Mechanism in Robot Development with Embedded Technology. - **Complete open source hardware.** - **Simpler** and **easier** robot development through the above goals. The main **FEATURES** of this are as follows. - Support ROS2(DDS using microRTPS) - Plug And Play - Daisy chain connection And our **ROADMAP** is as follows. - Support ROS2 (Publisher and subscriber are implemented) - Plug And Play (Implemented using the DYNAMIXEL protocol. Additional supplement needed.) - More sophisticated real-time performance. - Supports various message types. - Support GUI program (XEL Manager) - Support IDE likes Arduino for user customizing. - Support multi topics on one device. (Currently, only one topic per one is possible.) ![diagram|690x326](upload://brT8139BtAaDvWCmUJ9RxubDaZZ.png) What has been developed so far is only a simple function, and it requires a lot of function addition, stabilization and optimization. But, as one of our goals is a complete open source hardware, **we would like to develop it with anyone interested in this project**. So I post this here that this project is there and it has progressed to this extent. **For more information** on this project, please refer to the following wiki document. - [XEL Network](xelnetwork.robotis.com) We specially thanks to **ROS2 developers** and **ROS community** and **eProsima developers**. https://youtu.be/qITZ_mDqWgY --- [Visit Topic](https://discourse.ros.org/t/introducing-the-xel-network-modular-h-w-ecosystem-over-ros2/6050/1) or reply to this email to respond. If you do not want to receive messages from ros-users please use the unsubscribe link below. If you use the one above, you will stop all of ros-users from receiving updates. ______________________________________________________________________________ ros-users mailing list ros-users@lists.ros.org http://lists.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users Unsubscribe: