Open Source Summit + ELC Europe 2019

ROS - The Robot Operating System is a flexible framework for writing robot software at the very beginning. It is a set of tools, libraries, and conventions of creating complex and robust robot behavior across a wide variety of robotic platforms. Essentially it is a middleware over Linux distribution but more importantly, it is broadly adopted across many industrial automated platforms and even automotive systems. The surging popularity of edge computing and or fog computing, really needs to play into various edge software framework. This year Linux Foundation launched LF edge including a variety of edge sub-projects like EdgeX Foundry. So in our presentation we'd like to review and discuss if we can integrate ROS into EdgeX to build a unified edge system solution like 1: Architecture; 2: Support EdgeX with ROS device nodes; 3. Enable a basic machine learning framework with ROS library like opencv; 4: Over light weight preempt-rt Linux vessel; 5. vision of edge computing cluster.