Month: July 2021

The main idea of ROS, as repetitively mentioned by their inventors and core developers, is to avoid reinventing the wheels in robotics. This is achieved by providing a platform in which various robotic algorithms are reusable in a modular manner. In this way, one can reuse a code developed by others and focus more on …

Robot Operating System (ROS) is a robot middleware. It is not the only robot middleware available. There are also some other robot middleware as briefly listed here and more extensively listed and compared to each other in this paper. The development of ROS was initiated at Stanford University. It was then developed and maintained at …