PORTFOLIO / UNDERWATER ROBOTICS

Real-time system for autonomous underwater vehicle

Bringing Orocos and ROS 2 together for an underwater vehicle manufacturer's real-time software platform.

Real-time system for autonomous underwater vehicle
Sector
Underwater robotics
Platform
AUVs · ROVs
Contribution
Orocos · ROS 2 · Upstream open source

The challenge

Our client, a manufacturer of AUVs and ROVs for oil and gas rig operations, wanted to advance the capabilities of its real-time platform and integrate it with ROS 2 real time capabilities.

Our contribution

Intermodalics developed new Orocos and ROS 2 framework capabilities amending the core code base of both frameworks and integrated both.

The result

The client was able to use both frameworks in a transparent manner. The result was made publicly available as open source software and as part of the ROS Industrial consortium. Our results were merged upstream to benefit the whole robotics community.