<div class="gmail_extra">Hi all, </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">This looks like there's a solid group of people interested in making this happen. We haven't officially kicked off the Groovy planning cycle however we're starting to setup the infrastructure. I suggest that this be setup as a SIG for the groovy planning cycle: <a href="http://www.ros.org/wiki/groovy/Planning">http://www.ros.org/wiki/groovy/Planning</a> </div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Tully<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Weißhardt, Florian <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Florian.Weisshardt@ipa.fraunhofer.de" target="_blank">Florian.Weisshardt@ipa.fraunhofer.de</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="DE" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Dear ROS Enterprise/ROS Industrial enthusiasts,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">It is great to hear that some people and institutions are forming a group now to bring ROS into a challenging field of application: the industrial field. This is well inline with the Fraunhofer mission of applied research and techtransfer “bridging the gap between research and industry”. We, the Service Robotic group at Fraunhofer IPA, are very much interested in joining this process. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">For those who don’t know us so far: Fraunhofer Association is a German Non-Profit Research organization and our institute Fraunhofer IPA has been, among others, focusing on Service Robotics in the domestic and industrial field for over 50 years. We have been using ROS for over 3 years now and we are developing open source software in more 20 ROS Stacks as well as supporting the Care-O-bot platform. Besides that we have projects together with industrial companies focusing on Service Robotic applications. We already started some time ago with transferring (at least some parts of) ROS to these industrial projects and of course are curious about seeing more of ROS in this field. One example is a successful cooperation with Schunk where we offer our support for industrial partners using ROS in conjunction with Schunk products like Powercubes, Powerballs, light-weight arm LWA3 and industrial grippers.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Unfortunately we cannot participate in some personal meeting around ICRA/ROSCON but still we would like to state our interest in actively participating in an ROS Industrial group forming an Enterprise version of ROS.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">We would be happy to discuss further details and our possible contributions with you.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Best regards,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Florian Weisshardt<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">---<br>Dipl.-Ing. </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Florian Weißhardt<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Fraunhofer IPA, Abt. 320/Roboter- und Assistenzsysteme<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Von:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <a href="mailto:ros-users-bounces@code.ros.org" target="_blank">ros-users-bounces@code.ros.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:ros-users-bounces@code.ros.org" target="_blank">ros-users-bounces@code.ros.org</a>] <b>Im Auftrag von </b>Kartik Babu<br>
<b>Gesendet:</b> Freitag, 20. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">April 2012 01:19<br><b>An:</b> User discussions<br><b>Betreff:</b> Re: [ros-users] Enterprise Version of ROS<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<div><div class="h5"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">So, given that there isn't an Enterprise ROS group (yet), can I ask for a show of hands for those that are interested in starting the discussion while at ROSCON? I'm keen on looking into where/how we can get started on some of the tasks discussed in this thread.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Ken Conley <</span><a href="mailto:kwc@willowgarage.com" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">kwc@willowgarage.com</span></a><span lang="EN-US">> wrote:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-US">On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 8:22 AM, Jack O'Quin <</span><a href="mailto:jack.oquin@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">jack.oquin@gmail.com</span></a><span lang="EN-US">> wrote:<br>
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 9:26 AM, Edwards, Shaun M. <</span><a href="mailto:sedwards@swri.org" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">sedwards@swri.org</span></a><span lang="EN-US">> wrote:<br>>> Is there already a SIG that would consider this topic or do we need to form a new one? Is there a set time for SIG meetings at ROSCON?<br>
><br>> The only named SIGs I know about were ad-hoc groups created to do<br>> planning for Fuerte. In my view, it was a good idea that worked pretty<br>> well.<br>><br>> </span><a href="http://www.ros.org/wiki/fuerte/Planning" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.ros.org/wiki/fuerte/Planning</span></a><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">SIGs will be renewed for Groovy fairly soon. 'Renewing' will ensure<br>that we only track active SIGs and that there is opportunity to<br>reorganize as releases evolve.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-US"><br>><br>> In addition, there are informal groups working on specific project<br>> areas, such as Ackermann steering or embedded ROS.<br>
><br>
> </span><a href="http://www.ros.org/wiki/Ackermann%20Group" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.ros.org/wiki/Ackermann%20Group</span></a><span lang="EN-US"><br>> </span><a href="http://www.ros.org/news/2010/10/embedded-project-for-ros-eros.html" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.ros.org/news/2010/10/embedded-project-for-ros-eros.html</span></a><span lang="EN-US"><br>
><br>> I know of no comprehensive list of such activities.<br>><br>> I doubt there is any group working on Enterprise ROS already, but<br>> there is enough interest here to form one.<br>><br>> The ROScon site mentions space available for Birds-of-a-Feather<br>
> meetings, hacking, and information presentations.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">+1<br><span style="color:#888888"><br><span> - Ken</span></span><u></u><u></u></span></p><div><div>
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