Towards a distributed and real-time framework for robots: Evaluation of ROS 2.0 communications for real-time robotic applications
This addresses real-time communication challenges for robotic systems, but it is incremental as it builds on existing ROS 2.0 framework.
The paper tackles the suitability of ROS 2.0 for real-time robotic applications by evaluating its communications, showing that a proposed setup can mitigate delays and achieve bounded traffic under certain conditions.
In this work we present an experimental setup to show the suitability of ROS 2.0 for real-time robotic applications. We disclose an evaluation of ROS 2.0 communications in a robotic inter-component (hardware) communication case on top of Linux. We benchmark and study the worst case latencies and missed deadlines to characterize ROS 2.0 communications for real-time applications. We demonstrate experimentally how computation and network congestion impacts the communication latencies and ultimately, propose a setup that, under certain conditions, mitigates these delays and obtains bounded traffic.