Part

Software stack

You might say: ROS, the code

The software stack is the set of programs, middleware, robot models and tools that connect sensing, estimation, planning and control.

What it does: It integrates the robot into a runnable system and supports simulation, replay and debugging.
Ask: Can the system be replayed, simulated and debugged from the same interfaces?

Parts

Middleware: Middleware lets independent programs exchange typed messages and invoke services or actions over named interfaces.
Robot description (URDF): A robot description names links and joints and gives their visual, collision and inertial properties; URDF also carries joint dynamics and limits where defined.
Sense–plan–act loop: The conventional autonomy cycle senses the world, estimates or perceives state, plans an action, commands actuators and senses the result.
Simulation: A simulator advances a virtual robot and environment with a physics model, sensors and the robot's software interfaces.
Field testing: Field testing runs the robot on real tasks in the real setting while logging outcomes, interventions and failures.
Logging and replay: Logging records timestamped messages and other state so a run can be inspected or replayed after the robot stops.
Development cycle: The development cycle changes software, tests it in simulation, runs a hardware shakeout, deploys, logs failures and feeds the evidence into the next change.

Morgan Quigley, Brian Gerkey and William D. Smart, Programming Robots with ROS: A Practical Introduction to the Robot Operating System, Preface, pp. xi–xiiiROS systems consist of numerous small computer programs that connect to one another and continuously exchange messages.

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