In order to support security robot use cases, NCS Robotics is collaborating with Open Robotics to expand the capabilities of the Open Robotics Middleware Framework (Open-RMF). The expanded capabilities not only allow RMF to be used for more than its initial set of use cases, but they also make it easier for different fleets of robotics systems to work together.
For the global robotics ecosystem, the two teams worked for four months to enhance and add specific open-source features already present in Open-RMF. The new capabilities include teleoperation, which enables users to remotely control security robots; and live video streaming, which enables live video streams from robots to video clients or video management systems.
Other new features include customized tasks that enable developers to define unique tasks for robots that have additional payload capabilities; event notifications that enable robot-triggered events to be sent to other third-party systems like the dashboard of a command post; and GPS coordinate support for outdoor robots and autonomous vehicles.
According to Matthew Festo, general manager of Open Robotics Singapore, “collaboration with NCS is a key milestone in the development roadmap of Open-RMF to further demonstrate industry adoption and platform interoperability.” The statement continued, “The extended open-source capabilities being developed and incorporated into Open-RMF will work seamlessly with the NCS robotmanager platform, directly benefiting their customers while also being a part of the core open-source libraries available to the global robotics community
An artificial intelligence-driven fleet management platform is NCS Robotmanager. The platform can assist with the scaled supervision, control, and orchestration of various brands and types of robots. All robot types can easily be integrated, operated, and maintained thanks to Robotmanager’s seamless command and control user interface.
The CEO, co-founder, and one of the architects of ROS, Brian Gerkey, talked about the creation and advancement of ROS and the reasons why open-source software has been so crucial to the expansion of the robotics sector and the speeding up of robotics research in academic and industrial robotics labs all over the world.
