Robot Software

Section 05

ROS 2, real-time control, simulation and the fieldbus that ties it to the plant.

10 articles

Robot Software

The saving is commissioning time. A validated virtual model of a robot cell typically removes 30 % to 60 % of on-site commissioning, which...

Anika Sorel · 2026-08-05

Robot Software

Sampling-based planners such as RRT and PRM find a collision-free path in a high-dimensional space quickly, typically in 10 to 500...

Anika Sorel · 2026-08-05

Robot Software

Below about 40 waypoints, teaching on the pendant is faster than setting up an offline project. Above roughly 200 waypoints, or whenever...

Anika Sorel · 2026-08-05

Robot Software

The robotics companion specification defines a vendor-neutral information model, not a control protocol. It standardises how a robot...

Anika Sorel · 2026-08-05

Robot Software

A tuned Linux system with the real-time preemption patches, mainlined into the kernel in 2024, reaches worst-case scheduling latency in the...

Anika Sorel · 2026-08-05

Robot Software

Choose what the plant already speaks unless a cycle time below 1 ms forces the issue. EtherCAT reaches cycle times of 50 to 250...

Anika Sorel · 2026-08-05

Robot Software

Pick by purpose. Gazebo for integration testing of a full robot software stack, MuJoCo for fast and accurate contact dynamics in research...

Anika Sorel · 2026-08-05

Robot Software

Update the application freely, treat anything safety-related as a change to the machine. A modified safety function normally requires...

Arden Kovil · 2026-08-05

Robot Software

Change it when discovery misbehaves or a licence demands it, not for benchmark numbers. ROS 2 abstracts the middleware behind an interface...

Anika Sorel · 2026-08-05

Robot Software

ROS 1 reached end of life with the final Noetic release in May 2025, so the question is no longer whether to migrate. The substantive...

Anika Sorel · 2026-08-05