[ros-users] [Discourse.ros.org] [General] Why don't we use ROS?

[Ingo Lütkebohle]

Driving the motors is done by dedicated micro-controllers, at least in the systems I work with. Simple ones take velocities and perform PID control, better ones do Model-Predictive Control (MPC). Often, IMUs are also often directly attached, as they are cheap enough for a while now to be just integrated on the board. Of course, for MPC and for IMU integration some configuration is necessary, but not a lot.

I'm not sure what role MachineKit would play in such a setup. Would you use MachineKit to generate the software running on the micro-controller?





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