Future of ROS-I – hardware support, capabilities, and applications

In this section, we will talk about what can we do with ROS-I today. We will focus our discussion section on ROS deployment or ROS being deployed in an industrial setting.

We will talk about the lowest components of the POS-I software stack, the hardware devices, ROS capabilities in an industrial setup, and amazing applications.

Currently, ROS-I has a device driver for five different robot manufactures: ABB, Fanuc, Universal Robots, Motoman, and Adept, which are shown in the following photograph:

ROS Industrial robot manufactures

There are a couple of models from these robot manufactures that are supported in ROS-I packages. The new robot models can be easily added by these manufacturers, which do not require any software changes, expect configuration. Sometimes, robot mesh and kinematics need to be added and configured.

ROS-I also provides the framework to add new robot controllers, which requires the development of the robot...