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Podcast
Podcast
A controller for the ROS community - (Robot Operating System)
In an interview, Dr. Denis Stogl explains why the Bosch Rexroth controller ctrlX CORE is so ROS-friendly and what this means for robotics.
2024, industry rethought - a tech podcast from Bosch Rexroth [german]
Intrinsic and ROS - what now?
Intrinsic has taken over the Open Source Robotics Corporation (OSRC), the commercial branch of the ROS development organization Open Source Robotics Foundation (OSRF). What does this mean for the community?
2022 [german]
Podcast
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.
2023 [german]
Podcast
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.
2023 [german]
ROS Europe - how are the French and British ahead of us?
Dr. Denis Stogl gives a look behind the scenes of the ROS community - innovations, trends and insights from Germany, France and the UK.
2025 [german]
Podcast
Podcast
ROSCon 2024 Review
ROSCon shows where the journey in industrial automation is heading.
An interview with Mr. Robert Weber and Dr. Denis Stogl.
2024 [german]
Presentation
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.
2023, ROSConFR 2022 [German]
ROS 2 Gateway to Professional 24/7 Applications
Integrating ROS 2 into applications with classical industrial automation equipment is still a challenge. For once, because specialized hardware is needed, and secondly because the abstraction for such hardware in ROS 2 is missing. This talk presents a solution for connecting ROS 2 with industrial equipment utilizing the open-source friendly CtrlX Automation platform. CtrlX enables installation of ROS 2 nodes using SNAPs on industrially approved hardware. The combination with other applications, like PLC and EtherCAT, from CtrlX enables simple integration of ROS 2 with industrial automation equipment and standard industrial buses.
2024, ROSConDK 2024 [english]
Presentation
Presentation
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..
2022, ROS-Industrial Conference 2022 [german]
Videos
Videos
Videos
Videos
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.
2024, Robotics Developers Day [english]
SR Control Box - Robotic Cell Controller using ros2 control
2024, ROS-I Consortium [English]
Videos
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]
Videos
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]
Videos
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]
Videos
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]
Videos
ROS2 Control Podcast with one of its Maintainers Dr. Denis Stogl
2023, The Construct [English]
Videos
KUKA and ros2_control Integration, Stogl Robotics
2023, ROS-I Consortium [English]
Videos
ROS2 Control with Bence Magyar and Denis Stogl
2021, Weekly Robotics Meetup #13 [English]
Videos
From ros_control to ros2_control
2021, The Construct [English]
Videos
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]
Videos
From hardware connection to workspace management: Productivity booster for ROS2 | ROSCon EN 2024
Presentation of a generic open source Modbus hardware interface for ros2_control and the open source framework RosTeamWS for. The Modbus hardware interface offers a flexible solution to integrate Modbus hardware into ros2_control. RosTeamWS provides efficient ROS and ROS2 workspace management, as well as the creation of templates for controllers, hardware, URDF,...
2024, ROSCon DE 2024 [german]
Deployment of ROS 2 applications for 24/7 use | ROSCon EN 2024
ROS 2 enables high flexibility when deploying applications on an industrial PC, from native to different container solutions. Furthermore, the deployment of real-time applications is complex to configure, which additionally affects the stability of ROS 2 solutions. In this talk we will present an approach to deploy ROS 2 applications with immutable SNAP containers and on robust industrial hardware with real-time functionalities.
2024, ROSCon DE 2024 [german]
ros2_control Hardware Interfaces for Motoros2 (Yaskawa Motoman) | ROSCon EN 2024
ros2_control has a variety of controllers that can be used to control robots, but hardware interfaces must also be developed to connect to the hardware. In this presentation the hardware interfaces for the Yaskawa Motoman robot arm will be presented. The aim of the developments is to enable force control with standardized ros2_control controllers.
2024, ROSCon DE 2024 [german]
Nav2GPT: Robot navigation with LLM & ROS2 (Let's talk with Robots)| ROSCon EN 2024
Nav2GPT integrates language models such as Llama 3 and Whisper with ROS2 for advanced robot navigation. This system enables intuitive, natural language communication with robots and facilitates real-time navigation commands and responses. Nav2GPT uses ROS2 for the hardware interface and provides seamless control and interaction with mobile robots, pushing the boundaries of human-robot collaboration.
2024, ROSCon DE 2024 [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.
2023 [german]
Latest news
ROSCon 2024 Review
ROSCon shows where the journey in industrial automation is heading.
An interview with Mr. Robert Weber and Dr. Denis Stogl.
2024 [german]
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