This chapter introduces the open-source software VIKI. VIKI is a software package that
eases the configuration of complex robotic systems and behavior by providing an easy way …

This tutorial chapter takes a look at changes and features introduced in ROS2, from the
ROS1 user perspective. For this chapter, the Melodic and Dashing ROS distributions are …

This paper gives an introduction to the open-source Robot Operating System (ROS. ROS
has been widely adopted by the research robotics community as it provides a powerful …

This chapter will present the new roslaunch2 tool and its underlying architecture and
associated API. It is a pure Python-based ROS package that facilitates writing flexible and …

The Robot Operating System (ROS) has gained wide currency for the creation of working
robotic systems, initially in the laboratory but now also in industry. Despite ongoing …

ROS is an open-source robotic middleware for the large-scale development of complex
robotic systems. Although the research community is quite active in developing applications …

The amount of knowledge needed to deploy a robotic system can sometimes feel
overwhelming. However, many individual problems were solved already, including software …

The robot operating system (ROS) is a widely used framework that enables the underlying
code to be reused in different systems, thereby, developers can focus on the implementation …

Robot operating system (ROS) is a free and opensource system that has grown out of a
novel collaboration between industry and academia. This column is designed to introduce …

The primary goal of the robot operating system (ROS) is to enable researchers around the
world to share code and replicate the results of other laboratories. The ROS build system …