ROS Comparison¶

Please note: We are comparing RSB against roscore not against ROS!

Functional Differences¶

Facts¶

• ROS provides topic-based pub-sub, RSB provides an m:n event bus.

Wishes¶

• We believe in the power of reflection and self-description, such that
  • a generic subscription mechanism, e.g., with path-based access such as XPath becomes feasible
  • messages can be generally understood by everyone even if parts are not accessible
• RSB shall provide better introspection features, both for programmtic access (e.g., for anomaly detection) but also for developers

ROS Integration¶

Potential strategies:

• (Generic) Bridge Component
• ROS Port (ROS as a transport, mapping to our concepts)
• RSB Integration in ROS

Ideas:

• Naming maintains features sets (which component understands what on which framework)