robot-operator

robolaunch Kubernetes Robot Operator

robolaunch Kubernetes Robot Operator manages lifecycle of ROS 2 based robots and enables defining, deploying and distributing robots declaratively.

Table of Contents

• Idea
• Quick Start
  • Installation
  • Deploy Your First Robot
• Contributing

Idea

The main idea of this project is to manage robots as Kubernetes custom resources. As a custom resource, a robot's lifecycle contains following operations and benefits.

• Robot Lifecycle Management
  • Deployment
  • Update
  • Upgrade
  • Vertical Scaling
    • Adjusting robot's resources
• Robot Observability
  • ROS observability tools (eg. rViz, Foxglove, ROS Tracker)
  • Exporting ROS nodes, topics, services, actions and bandwidth
• GPU Acceleration
  • Simulation (Gazebo, Ignition)
  • VDI
• Geoghraphic Distribution
  • Cloud-powered robot
  • Cloud-connected robot
• Software development lifecycle
  • Cloud IDE
• Connectivity
  • Robot-to-Robot Discovery
  • Node-to-Node Discovery

Refer robolaunch.io and project wiki for more architectural details and documentations.

Quick Start

Installation

Installation steps will be instructed here.

Deploy Your First Robot

Robot deployment steps will be instructed here.

Contributing

Please see this guide if you want to contribute.