a hard real-time ROS?

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Interaction is quite seamless, tool-sets live next to each other. However not all code is written as an Orocos component or executed from the deployer. Most of us use both ROS and Orocos however.

Hello. I would like to use also ROS for some real -time data analysis. I do not have experience in that and would like to use the data provided from ROS nodes for some real time analysis. Is there any help on this?

Any idea if it will be released?

Afaik yes, but it could take some time.

If you want to help: get in touch with the author(s), and express your interest.

We are in the final stages of releasing RTROS.

Hi @Jan Carstensen :). Thanks for the update.

while i understand what a real-time (soft/hard) system is, i still cannot provide myself a real world example of a robot using ROS that cannot adequately perform with native ROS. can someone shed some light?

A surgical robot that performs open heart surgery while the heart is beating. You will want deterministic execution for that, as you'll need to be able to guarantee that the system always does what it is supposed to do down to the lowest levels. Just being 'fast enough' is not sufficient.

A less 'exotic' example: synchronising the motion of multiple industrial robots all holding the same workpiece. Without deterministic execution and communication, that is impossible (or at least: is very much simplified if you do have both).

But anything for which the behaviour of the system ..

.. should be predictable (so not just run it and see what happens) almost requires deterministic execution.