Media
Podcasts
A controller for the ROS community - (Robot Operating System)
In this interview, Dr. Denis Stogl explains why the Bosch Rexroth controller ctrlX CORE is so ROS-friendly and what this means for robotics.
2024 Rethinking industry - a tech podcast from Bosch Rexroth [german]
Intrinsic and ROS - what now?
Intrinsic has acquired the Open Source Robotics Corporation (OSRC), the commercial arm of the ROS development organization Open Source Robotics Foundation (OSRF). What does this mean for the community? [German]
Cell control with ROS
Dr. Denis Stogl is a ros2_control maintainer and is at home in robotics with his own company. He looks with us at the next technological topics of ROS and how robotics is changing. [German]
EtherCAT and ROS Industrial - what is the community working on?
Dr. Denis Stogl gives us an update on what the community is working on with Yaskawa and others. [German]
Presentations
What's new in the best (and only) control framework for ROS 2 - ros2_control
ros2_control is hardware-independent control framework with focus on modular composition of control systems for robots, sharing of controllers and real-time capability. The framework has become the main tool for hardware abstraction and low-level control of 3rd party solutions such as MoveIt2 and Nav2. The presentation offers practical tips on ros2_control, from creating the robot descriptiondescription, developing hardware drivers and configuring controllers. Some heise new functions will be shown, such as linking controllers. Furthermore, the concepts of modular reuse of hardware drivers, architectures with multiple robots and on-the-fly injection of parameters are shown. [german]
ros2_control - Kernel for ROS 2 controlled robots
ros2_control is a hardware-independent control framework with a focus on modular composition of control systems for robots, sharing of controllers and real-time capability. The framework provides a "kernel" function for robots through hardware abstraction and accomplishment of complex low-level tasks, for example, hardware life cycle, communication and access control.. [German]
Videos
Building a Robotics Consultancy Business | Robotics Developers Day 2024
Robotics Career Advice: "How to Build a Robotics Consultancy Business" - An Interview with Denis Stogl, Owner & CEO of Stogl Robotics Robotics Developers Day is an online virtual conference (*formerly ROS Developers Day) that serves as a platform to deepen your understanding of robotics and its career opportunities. Through engaging discussions and practical sessions, you will gain valuable insights into crucial aspects of the field. [English]
SR Control Box - Robotic Cell Controller using ros2 control
2024, ROS-I Consortium [English]
ros2_control has broken out of my computer
The control framework for ROS 2, ros2_control, aims at real-time capability and is therefore basically designed to be executed on only one computer. This presentation shows how to use ros2_control for distributed control across multiple computers to enable complex high-performance applications.
2023, ROSCon DE23 Karlsruhe [german]
ROS Team Workspace (RTW): Facilitating collaborative work in ROS projects
ROS has very powerful tools that simplify software management, building and maintenance, but these tools are not easy to use. That's why the ROS Team Workspace (RTW) was developed, a toolset for development with ROS and ROS 2 and for managing ROS packages and workspaces in teams.
2023, ROSCon DE23 Karlsruhe [german]
How easy is system integration with ROS 2?
Integrating complex systems with ROS 2 can be very overwhelming. The good news is that you can take a step-by-step approach and focus on one functionality at a time. In this presentation, we will show you this approach, which has proven itself in more than a dozen industrial projects.
2023, ROSCon DE23 Karlsruhe [german]
A practitioner's guide to ros2_control
ros2_control is a hardware-agnostic control framework focusing on the modular composition of control systems for robots, sharing of controllers as well as real-time performance. The framework provides controller-lifecycle and hardware management on top of abstractions of real or virtual hardware interfaces. This talk will delve deeper into ros2_control, showcasing new features and what they could be used for, such as explicit lifecycle management, chaining controllers, emergency-stop handlers and mock components. Finally, we will showcase different usages of ros2_control on openly accessible examples.
2023, ROSCon DE22 Kyoto [english]
ROS2 Control Podcast with one of its Maintainers Dr. Denis Stogl
2023, The Construct [English]
KUKA and ros2_control Integration, Stogl Robotics
2023, ROS-I Consortium [English]
ROS2 Control with Bence Magyar and Denis Stogl
2021, Weekly Robotics Meetup #13 [English]
From ros_control to ros2_control
2021, The Construct [English]
Making a robot ROS 2 powered - a case study using the UR manipulators
With the release of ros2_control and MoveIt 2, ROS 2 Foxy finally has all the "ingredients" needed to power a robot with similar features as in ROS 1. We present the driver for Universal Robot's manipulators as a real-world example of how robots can be run using ROS 2. We show how to realize multi-interface support for position and velocity commands in the driver and how to support scaling controllers while respecting factors set on the teach pendant. Finally, we show how this real-world example influences development of ros2_control to support non-joint related inputs and outputs in its real-time control loop.
2021, ROS World [English]
News article
Biggest pain in robotics: integration
The problems are almost always the same: whether robots are working on the moon, under water or as an industrial arm in production - the most difficult and complex part of implementing a robot application is integration. In most cases, it does not run smoothly. As a result, many robotic solutions fall far short of what is possible. Dr. Denis Stogl has been researching in this field for many years. When it comes to integration and control architectures in robotics, he hits a nerve with his specialist knowledge. Now in demand internationally, he scales up his engineering and consulting services and founds the start-up Stogl Robotics. [German]
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