ROS (operating system)

ROS ( Robot Operating System ) - An operating system for robots is a robot programming framework that provides functionality for distributed work. ROS was originally developed in 2007 under the name Switchyard at Stanford University's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory for the project ( STAIR ^[3] ). In 2008, development continued at Willow Garage , a research institute / robotics incubator, together with more than twenty collaborating institutes. ^{[4] [5]}

ROS provides standard operating system services, such as: hardware abstraction, low-level device control, the implementation of frequently used functions, message passing between processes, and packet management. ROS is based on graph architecture, where data processing occurs at nodes that can receive and transmit messages between themselves. The library is focused on Unix-like systems ( Ubuntu Linux is included in the list of "supported", while other options, such as Fedora and Mac OS X , are considered "experimental").

ROS has two main “sides”: the sides of the ros operating system, as described above, and ros-pkg , a set of user-supported packages (organized into sets called the stack ) that implement various robotics functions: SLAM , planning, perception, modeling, etc. .

ROS is released in accordance with the terms of the BSD license and with open source code . ROS is free to use for both research and commercial purposes. Packages from ros-pkg are distributed under various open licenses.