{"id":7853,"date":"2012-01-20T16:16:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T21:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=7853"},"modified":"2012-01-20T16:16:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-20T21:16:00","slug":"industrial-robotics-software-repository-established","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/?p=7853","title":{"rendered":"Industrial Robotics Software Repository Established"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7855\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7855\" style=\"width: 145px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/MotomanRoboticArm_MotomanRobotics.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7855\" title=\"MotomanRoboticArm_MotomanRobotics\" src=\"http:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/MotomanRoboticArm_MotomanRobotics.jpg\" alt=\"Motoman robotic arm (Motoman Robotics)\" width=\"145\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/MotomanRoboticArm_MotomanRobotics.jpg 145w, https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/MotomanRoboticArm_MotomanRobotics-72x150.jpg 72w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 145px) 100vw, 145px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7855\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Motoman Robotics)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swri.org\/9what\/releases\/2012\/ros.htm\">Southwest Research Institute<\/a> (SwRI) in San Antonio has set up a repository of software routines for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swri.org\/4org\/d10\/msd\/automation\/ros-industrial.htm\">industrial automation<\/a> that work under the Robot Operating System. The software collection of tools, libraries, and drivers is <a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/swri-ros-pkg\/\">publicly accessible<\/a> and licensed under the open-source Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) license.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ros.org\/wiki\/\">Robot Operating System<\/a> (ROS) provides functions and routines for applications development, such as hardware abstraction, device control, and message exchanges between processes. The primary goal of ROS is to encourage code reuse in robotics R&amp;D, with code for various processes collected in packages or stacks, and made available in distributed repositories.<\/p>\n<p>The SwRI collection is one of those repositories. The software provides a toolkit for industrial applications, such as in factories or warehouses. The applications include those developed by robotics developers, such as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motoman.com\/\">Motoman Robotics<\/a> division of Yaskawa America and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.willowgarage.com\/\">Willow Garage<\/a>. One such application is an interface for motion-control with collision prevention on the Motoman SIA10D robot arm using the DX100 robot controller (pictured left).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;SwRI had previously used ROS for industrial and advanced manufacturing systems to facilitate rapid development and lower costs,&#8221; says SwRI research engineer Shaun Edwards. &#8220;We want to take ROS into the industrial world,&#8221; Edwards adds, &#8220;by combining its high-level functionality with the relatively low-level reliability and safety of industrial robot controllers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the following video, Edwards tells more about the repository and shows the robot arm in action.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qd76wAywZos\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=6858\">Honda Advances Autonomous Humanoid Robot and Robot Arm<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in San Antonio has set up a repository of software routines for industrial automation that work under the Robot Operating System. The software collection of tools, libraries, and drivers is publicly accessible and licensed under the open-source Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) license. The Robot Operating System (ROS) provides functions and routines [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,15],"tags":[109,86,20,41,78],"class_list":["post-7853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ventures","category-products","tag-computer-science","tag-engineering","tag-manufacturing","tag-robotics","tag-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7853"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7858,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7853\/revisions\/7858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}