Related projects¶
Other related project provide additional functionality to the core of the Orocos project by extending available components and plugins or with tooling for software development.
A non-exhaustive list of said extensions is listed next:
Rock: Robot Construction Kit offers a rich development environment and a collection of ready-to-use packages.
LWR: Orocos/ROS Components for Light Weight Robots, a.k.a.
rtt_lwr
is a set of components for controlling the Kuka LWR and IIWA at 1 kHz.ROS integration: Integration between Orocos and ROS ecosystem.
ROS 2 integration: Integration between Orocos and ROS 2 ecosystem.
SOEM integration: Support of a protocol for industrial realtime communication EtherCAT, derived from the SOEM project. Specially, many Beckhoff DAQ devices are supported.
iTaSC: instantaneous Task Specification using Constraints is a framework to generate robotics motions using relationships between objects and features.
eTaSL: is a task specification language for reactive control of robotics systems.
Additional resources¶
Some third-party are to provide further documentation about the Orocos project and tutorials. These resources include:
Introduction to Orocos by ATLAS project (KU Leuven).
Orocos examples by Dustin Gooding (HMI).
Lab sessions by Mariusz Janiak (Wroclaw UT)