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Could Robots Unite Under One Operating System?
A common robot operating system could lead to a robotics revolution -- scientifically speaking, of course
Today's robots represent islands unto themselves that don't share either software or hardware with each other. But researchers have begun developing a common operating system that could revolutionize robotics and permit easier collaboration with less reinvention of the proverbial wheel. The change could rival that which rippled through the PC industry when Microsoft's Disk Operating System (DOS), and later Windows, burst onto the scene and became standard.
| Clipped from: Robots to get their own operating system - tech - 10 August 2009 - New Scientist |
Robots to get their own operating system
Bourcier sees this changing if robotics advances in a manner similar to personal computing. For computers, the widespread adoption of Microsoft's Disk Operating System (DOS), and later Windows, allowed programmers without detailed knowledge of the underlying hardware and file systems to build new applications and build on the work of others.
Programmers could build new applications without detailed knowledge of the underlying hardware Bringing robotics to this point won't be easy, though. "Robotics is at the stage where personal computing was about 30 years ago," says Chad Jenkins of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Like the home-brew computers of the late 70s and early 80s, robots used for research today often have a unique operating system (OS). "But at some point we have to come together to use the same resources," says Jenkins.
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ROS (Robot Operating System)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
ROS is a robot operating system originally developed (2007) in the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in support of the Stanford AI Robot (STAIR) project but now (as of 2008) developed primarily by Willow Garage, a robotics research institute/incubator. It is free for commercial and research use under a BSD license. The library runs primarily on Linux but is intended to be cross-platform for Mac OS X and Windows. ROS provides standard operating system services such as hardware abstraction, low-level device control, implementation of commonly-used functionality, message-passing between processes, and package management. It is a graph based architecture where processing takes place in nodes that may receive, post and multiplex sensor, control, state, planning, actuator and other messages.| Clipped from: ROS - Wiki |
ROS -- Robot Operating System
Overview
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- Could Robots Unite Under One Operating System? | Popular Science
- Robots to get their own operating system - tech - 10 August 2009 - New Scientist
- ROS (Robot Operating System) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- ROS - Wiki
