[ros-users] ROS and OPC/OPC-UA

[Brian Gerkey]

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 8:31 AM, Meßmer, Felix
<Felix.Messmer at ipa.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
> I’ve spent some time searching, but I haven’t found any references on this:
>
> I’m currently trying to bring ROS and OPC-UA together.
>
> OPC-UA is the latest specification of OPC - a long-time standard in industry
> (especially in process control and manufacturing automation) that specifies
> communication and data exchange between devices of different manufacturers.
>
> See www.opcfoundation.org

hi Felix,

This is the first I've heard of OPC.  It looks like OPC was (before
OPC-UA) tied to Microsoft COM?

Are people currently using OPC-UA with robots in manufacturing?  If
so, it could be interesting to create a bridge to ROS.  You might
start with rosbridge (http://www.ros.org/wiki/rosbridge); it was
originally designed for building web interfaces, but can be used more
generally to access a distributed ROS system with a single socket.

Do you know what parts of ROS would be interesting or useful to OPC-UA users?

	brian.