ROS-Industrial Community Meeting - Hvass

1. ROS-INDUSTRIAL COMMUNITY MEETING
September, 2014

2. AGENDA
• Welcome and update on RIC-Americas (Paul Hvass, SwRI)
• Update from RIC-EU (Alexander Bubeck, Fraunhofer IPA)
• ROS-I Roadmapping update (Clay Flannigan, SwRI)
• Why ROS-I Community needs to adopt the Kinect 2 (Preben
Hjornet, Blue Workforce)
• Introducing the Cartesian path planner plug-in for MoveIt!
(Risto Kojcev, Italian Institute of Technology, Pisa Italy)
• John Deere ROS-I demo cell (Ryan Gneiting, Deere and Co.)
• Discussion as time allows

3. ROS-INDUSTRIAL CONSORTIUM AMERICAS
STATUS UPDATE
September, 2014
Paul Hvass
ROS-I Consortium Program Manager
Southwest Research Institute

4. ROS-INDUSTRIAL CONSORTIUM
SwRI Facilities in San Antonio, TX, USA
Consortium Objectives
• Foster Growth of
Flexible Manufacturing
Automation
• ROS-I Training
• Community
– Website
– Wiki
– Mailing lists
– Meetings
• Tech Support
• Focused Technical
Projects

5. CURRENT MEMBERSHIP
• Jan. 2012 – Launched repo
• Summer 2012 – Consortium
announced
• March 2013 – Consortium
Kickoff meeting
• June 2013 – First Training
Event
• December 2013 – First
Focused Technical Project
Funded
• March 2014 – First Annual
Meeting/Training
• June 2014 – RIC EU Kickoff

6. FTPS – PAST/PRESENT
Path Planner Optimization
and Planning Request Adptr.
1
2
Robotic Blending Milestone 1 CMM- Enabled Robotic
Routing
Minimize cycle time for pick
& place applications.
Macro-scan simple work
pieces and plan tool paths
Scan the perimeter of legacy
tooling; auto-gen paths
Complete Transitioning to Milestone 2 December Install

7. FTPS – PAST/PRESENT
http://youtu.be/icrsXJmZ3Qo

8. FTPS – FUTURE
Large Scale CNC
Mill (Expensive)
Affordable
Robotic CNC
ProE, SolidWorks,
CATIA, NX
STEP +
Meta Data
Robotic Blending Milestone 2 Robotic CNC Milestone 1 CAD to ROS Tools
Add laser line scanner,
surface analysis, blend
complex work pieces
Sub. expensive large scale
CNC machines with lower-cost
portable robots, enabled
by Siemens controller
Convert common CAD data
and engineering process data
to ROS URDFs, SRDFs, and
process constraints
Four Months Six Months One Year

9. FUTURE EVENTS
• FTP Deadlines – Quarterly Launch Dates
• NIST Grant Awarded – Robotic Assembly,
Calibration
• ROS-Industrial Road Map Publication
• ROS-I at RoboBusiness, Oct. 2014
• ROS-I and RIC at Automate, March 2015
• ROS-I Training also at Automate
• Membership renewal, March 2015

10. CONTACT INFO
Paul Hvass
ROS-I Consortium Americas
Program Manager
SwRI
9503 W. Commerce
San Antonio, TX 78227
USA
Email: paul.hvass@swri.org
ROS-Industrial.org
Robotics.swri.org