Collection of Best Practices

The repository holds a collection of best practices for the development, design and deployment of ROS systems

Deployment

• Distributed systems:

  • Description: How to install automatically a distributed robot system with several PCS
  • Status: Complete
  • Type: Informational
  • Created: 14-April-2021
  • Link: distributed_system.rst

• Hardware_setup:

  • Description: How to set the ports of the hardware devices
  • Status: Complete, but further type of devides can be added
  • Type: Informational
  • Created: 14-April-2021
  • Link: hardware_setup.rst

Devops

• Continuous integration
  • Description: How Continuous integration and deployment
  • Status: Complete, but can be extended further tools
  • Type: Informational
  • Created: 16-April-2021
  • Link: continuous_integration_deployment.rst

Helper Tools

• Command tools

  • Description: Tools to easily command the robot actuators
  • Status: Complete
  • Type: Tool
  • Created: 15-April-2021
  • Link: command_tools.rst

• Diagnostics tools

  • Description:Tools to diagnosse and monitor a system
  • Status: Complete
  • Type: Tool
  • Created: 15-April-2021
  • Link: diagnostics_tools.rst

• Upstart tools

  • Description: Upstart setup to automatically run a ROS system on boot
  • Status: Complete
  • Type: Tool
  • Created: 15-April-2021
  • Link: upstart_tools.rst

Integration and composition

• Modular architecture
  • Description: How to define a modular architecture for a fleet robot (e.g. Care-O-bot 4)
  • Status: Empty! Pending
  • Type: Informational
  • Created: 15-April-2021
  • Link: cob4_integracion.rst

Processes

• Open Source
  • Description: Process to open-source existing code
  • Status: Complete
  • Type: Strong recommendation
  • Created: 15-June-2021
  • Link: open-source.rst

Test

• Testing toolchain

  • Description: Testing Tool (from ARAIG project)
  • Status: Complete
  • Type: Tool
  • Created: 28-May-2021
  • Link: araig.rst

• Test tools

  • Description: Tools to perform test on a ROS system
  • Status: Complete
  • Type: Tool
  • Created:15-April-2021
  • Link: test_tools.rst