The document discusses the RIC-EU (ROS-Industrial Consortium Europe), which coordinates ROS-Industrial developments in Europe. It focuses on objectives like implementing a technical roadmap through strategic projects co-funded by RIC-EU and the community. These projects achieve goals like real-time capability or Windows support. The RIC-EU also tracks ROS activities in European research projects and offers services to industry such as training and support. Recent and upcoming activities are noted, including workshops, meetings, and the start of new projects in January 2015.

1. RIC-EU Update
Alexander Bubeck
September 13th, 2014

2. Objectives and Activities
 Coordination of ROS-Industrial developments in Europe
 Implementation of community driven Technical Roadmap via co-funding
of strategic projects (SP)
 Create new reference applications in co-funded focused technical
projects (FTP)
 Tracking and integration of ROS industrial relevant activities in
European Research Projects
 Management of Quality, Standards
 Provide coding and documentation guidelines, component model,
Quality Assurance, ROS-I certificate
 Maintenance of central ROS Industrial repository
 Offer Services to industry:
 Central contact point for ROS support,
 ROS Training tailored for industry, etc.
 Marketing and Growth of Consortium and Community

3. Strategic Projects (SP)
 The purpose of an SP is to achieve a goal of the ROS-I roadmap, e.g. real-time
capability or windows support, i.e. application independent basic
technologies required for FTPs.
 SP are mid-/long-term projects:
 Duration: 1-3 years
 Equal contributions from RIC-EU and
Open Source Community
 SP are setup as collaborations with the Open Source Community
(collaborate in ROS SIG), where the RIC-EU funding is used for the
Initiation, Acceleration and Coordination of Community Efforts
 The strategic projects are prioritized by the CAC
 The RIC-EU members efforts in the SP are funded up to 100%.
 All code is released open source
 IPA contracts external SP contributors

4. ROS
Industrial
Workshop
at Fraunhofer
IPA, Oct 17
2012
RIC-NA Kickoff
Swri, March 7
2013
Roadmapping
Workshop
at European
Robotics Forum,
Lyon, March 20
2013
ICRA / ROSCon
in Karsruhe /
Stuttgart,
Germany, May
2013
ROS training at
IPA,
October 2013
Kick-Off
June 27th, 2014
Recent Activities

5. Schedule
27.06.2014
RIC-EU Kick-Off
12./13.09.2014
ROSCon,
RIC-NA Meeting
10.12.2014
RIC-EU Meeting
CAC Meeting
Jan 2015
Start of first SP / FTPs
25.09.2014
RIC-EU Telco

6. Contact Information
Alexander Bubeck
Dipl.-Ing.
Fraunhofer IPA
Nobelstr. 12
70569 Stuttgart
Germany
Email: aub@ipa.fhg.de
www.rosindustrial.org
www.ipa.fhg.de