ROS-Industrial – a brief history
In 2012, the ROS-Industrial open source project started as a collaboration of Yaskawa Motoman Robotics (http://www.motoman.com/), Willow Garage (https://www.willowgarage.com/), and the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) (http://www.swri.org/) for using ROS in industrial manufacturing. ROS-I was founded by Shaun Edwards in January 2012.
In March 2013, the ROS-I Consortium Americas and Europe were launched, led by SwRI in Texas and Fraunhofer IPA in Germany, respectively. In the following list, a set of benefits that ROS-I provides to the community are detailed:
- Explores the features in ROS: The ROS-Industrial packages are tied to the ROS framework so that we can use all the ROS features in industrial robots too. Using ROS, we can create custom inverse kinematic solvers for each robot and implement object manipulation, using 2D/3D perception.
- Out-of-the-box applications: The ROS interface enables advanced perception in robots...
