Go through these slides and find out more about micro-ROS, the framework that puts ROS 2 onto microcontrollers, and Ofera, the EU project behind the product. These slides were presented by eProsima CEO Jaime Martin Losa at the European Robotics Forum 2023 as part of the track “Success Stories from EU funded projects”.

1. micro-ROS - ROS 2 into microcontrollers
Jaime Martín Losa - eProsima
JaimeMartin@eProsima.com

2. Agenda
● What is OFERA?
● What is Micro-ROS?
● Success. How we did it?
● Impact
● Future

3. What is OFERA?
The EU Project behind Micro-ROS:
ROS 2 for Microcontrollers

4. OFERA -> Micro-ROS
● The EU project Ends, BUT
● Micro-ROS continues!
○ Open Source community
○ Business Ecosystem
○ eProsima already supporting commercial customers.

5. What is micro-ROS?
ROS 2 in Microcontrollers. Same API, Same Messages.
micro-ROS
ROS 2
RCL
ROS Core Library
RCLPY
Python API
RCLCPP
C++ API
ROS 2
Nodes
ROS 2
Nodes
…
RMW
ROS Middleware Interface
Fast DDS
Middleware Implementation
OS
Linux, macOS, Windows
CPU
Apps
Client libraries
Middleware
System
Hardware
RCL
ROS Core Library
RCLC
C99 RT API
ROS 2
Nodes
ROS 2
Nodes
…
RMW
ROS Middleware Interface
Micro XRCE-DDS Client
Middleware Implementation
Bare metal
Static library
Arduino
RTOS
FreeRTOS, Nuttx, Zephyr,
Mbed, Azure, RTEMs…
MCU
ARM Cortex-M, RISC-V, Xtensa…
micro-ROS
Agent
XRCE-DDS
DDS

6. Reasons for success

7. 1.- It Works!

8. Support: The platforms people really use
2023
2022 2024
… and many more boards

9. 2.- Adoption:

10. Repo clones in 2022
262.770!

11. What?
How is this possible?
262.770!

12. Well, we use some
Jedi Tricks

13. 1 Post per week
1 Tutorial per month
Monthly Embedded Working Group
Twitter, linkedin,
ROS Discourse, Press Releases
Events: ROSCON, ROS World, ERF

14. Community Success Cases
ROS 2 Embedded Working Group (EWG):
monthly meeting: users and partners
● Presentation about embedded &
micro-ROS topics
● Presentation or discussion about new
features and bugs
● Miscelanea section, community
questions…
They are recorded and published on ROS
Discourse #embedded

15. Developers, Developers, Developers,
Developers, DEVELOPERS!,
Developers, Developers, Developers,
DEVELOPERS!!

16. Micro-ROS Dev Support
● Easy to use.
● Really good Documentation
○ Tutorials, videos, use cases
● Always updated.
○ Same ROS 2 release cycle.

17. And yes, we make money with this!

18. You can see it in action HERE
today!
CAPRA ROBOTICS - UK Agritech
Mobile platforms - Capra Hircus
Usage of micro-ROS for the real time controllers.
Commercial Success Cases

19. Commercial Success Cases
RENESAS - Japan silicon
Global leader in microcontrollers, analog, power and SoC products.
Official reference board provider for micro-ROS: RA Family

20. Commercial Success Cases
RENESAS - Today at Embedded world
(March 14-16)

21. Commercial Success Cases
GARDIN - UK Agritech
Farm optimization via image recognition.
Usage of micro-ROS for the low level controlling of their sensors.

22. EU Impact:
micro-ROS now is a key component of ROS 2: Huge impact!
Europe has a leading role in the
de facto standard for Robotics.

23. Future: Fully European ROS Distro
Model, program and
Simulate ROS 2 robots
Test and improve ROS 2
Network performance
Cloud/edge communication
of ROS 2 entities
Seamless integration
of MCUs to ROS 2
CORE