ROS-Industrial Europe – Activities and Current State

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Motivation
Financial Structure
Membership Conditions
Governance
Mode of Operation
Schedule
Ulrich Reiser
Florian Weißhardt
Alexander Bubeck
Ramez Awad
Fraunhofer IPA
Institute Center Stuttgart IZS
Fraunhofer IPA
One of the largest organizations for
applied research in Europe
Non-Profit society
> 2 Billion € turn-over 2013
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Itzehoe
Rostock
Lübeck
Bremerhaven
Oldenburg
Hamburg
Bremen
Hannover
Braunschweig
Fraunhofer Institute for
Manufacturing Engineering
and Automation IPA
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One of the largest single institutes of
the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
More than 50 years of experience
Competent at implementing
innovations in industry
Potsdam
Magdeburg
Berlin
Teltow
Cottbus
Halle
Paderborn
Oberhausen
Dortmund
Schkopau
Leipzig
Duisburg
Kassel
Schmallenberg
Dresden
Jena
St. Augustin
Erfurt
Freiberg
Aachen
Gießen
Euskirchen
Chemnitz
Wachtberg
Ilmenau
Darmstadt
Bayreuth
Würzburg
Erlangen
Bronnbach
St. Ingbert
Kaiserslautern Fürth Nürnberg
Saarbrücken Karlsruhe
Pfinztal
Ettlingen
Straubing
Stuttgart
Freising
Garching
Augsburg
Freiburg
München
Oberpfaffenhofen
Prien
Kandern
Holzkirchen
EfringenKirchen
Fraunhofer
institutes and
facilities
Other sites
Motivation to invest in ROS-I
Provide the following key benefits for
robotics and automation industry:
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availability of manufacturer
independent open source drivers
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standardized interfaces for industrial
automation components
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intelligent software components for
flexible production cells
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significant reduction of installation
times and integration efforts
Objectives and Activities
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Coordination of ROS-Industrial developments in Europe
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Implementation of community driven Technical Roadmap via cofunding of strategic projects (SP)
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Create new reference applications in co-funded focused technical
projects (FTP)
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Tracking and integration of ROS industrial relevant activities in
European Research Projects
Management of Quality, Standards
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Provide coding and documentation guidelines, component model,
Quality Assurance, ROS-I certificate
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Maintenance of central ROS Industrial repository
Offer Services to industry:
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Central contact point for ROS support,
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ROS Training tailored for industry, etc.
Marketing and Growth of Consortium
Recent Activities
IAS-13
July 15
ROS training
Roadmapping
Workshop
at European
Robotics Forum,
RIC-NA Kickoff
Lyon, March 20
Swri, March 7
2013
2013
ROS
Industrial
Workshop
Fraunhofer
IPA, Oct 17
2012
ICRA / ROSCon October
2013
iKarsruhe /
Stuttgart,
Germany, May
2013
ROS-I Conference,
RIC-Eu Kick-Off,,
June 26-27, 2014
RIC-EU Kick-off June 27
Strategic Projects (SP)
 The purpose of an SP is to achieve a goal of the ROS-I roadmap, e.g. realtime capability or windows support, i.e. application independent basic
technologies required for FTPs.
 SP are mid-/long-term projects:
 Duration: 1-3 years
 Equal contributions from RIC-EU and
Open Source Community
 SP are setup as collaborations with the Open Source Community
(collaborate in ROS SIG), where the RIC-EU funding is used for the
Initiation, Acceleration and Coordination of Community Efforts
 The strategic projects are prioritized by the CAC
 The RIC-EU members efforts in the SP are funded up to 100%.
 All code is released open source
 IPA contracts external SP contributors
Current SP Proposals
SP Proposal
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SP Proposal Name
Description
MDE
Model-Driven Engineering, Tracing Requirements to
implementation
Real-time capable middleware, Quality of Service,
Deterministic Behaviour
Development Process to ensure software quality (e.g.
according Capability Maturity Model, CMM)
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RT-ROS
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Certification
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Windows Support
CI-Extern
Calibration
GenericIO
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Continue existing REP 141
Internal SP SWRi
IO Device Support
Extended Driver Specification + Implementation
Constrained Pathplanning
Focused Technical Projects (FTP)
 FTP are intended as a means for technology transfer, as such the proposed work should have a
near term utility
 Duration: less than a year
 Cost: less than 200 T€
 FTPs are proposed by full members and start when funding is in place (asynchronous)
 Short Project Description via Quad chart: Problem/ Approach /Cost / Schedule
 FTP is posted on Consortium web portal, other full members negotiate the requirements and join
the FTP group (Additional Entities may be invited to join if expertise is needed) and then contracted
separately
 FTP may apply for partial funding (up to 20%) by the RIC-EU. To be voted upon by the CAC.
 Equipment may be loaned by FTP initiator or other members
 Developed ROS-I Code within FTP will be released open-source
 Project data and technical reports are released to other FTP project members and to associated
members 2 years later
Consortium Revenue Streams
Training / technical support
for members
Fraunhofer
Investment
Repository Maintenance
Consortium
Budget
Membership
Fees
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Mainly publicly funded R&D projects to add
specific new capabilities to ROS-I
Technical support for non-members
50%
Strategic Projects to
implement ROS-I Roadmap
Website, Networking,
Management
FTP
FTP
Budgets
FTP
Budgets
Budgets
Schedule
27.06.2014
RIC-EU Kick-Off
10.12.2014
RIC-EU Meeting
CAC Meeting
12./13.09.2014
ROSCon,
RIC-NA Meeting
Jan 2015
Start of first SP / FTPs
Contact Information
Ulrich Reiser
Group Manager
Service Robotics
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Fraunhofer IPA
Nobelstr. 12
70569 Stuttgart
Germany
Phone: +49-711-970-1330
Email: [email protected]
www.ipa.fhg.de
www.rosindustrial.org
7 March 2013
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