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by liendolucas
513 days ago
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Robotics is a very hard topic. If on top of that you add ROS which almost everyone is using you will end up very disappointed and without much enthusiasm to do robotics at all. My major criticism to ROS is that because robotics is already hard, ROS does not make it a single bit enjoyable or easy, all the opposite as a matter of fact. |
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ROS has some fundamental design flaws, but does integrate most development software from various research areas. In many cases, the sub-projects were abandoned decades ago, and only ROS developers keep these components operational.
The primary mistake most naive academics make is assuming you are dealing with a single problem domain. Robotics is different from simple automation in that it has 4+ different primary concurrent systems that must share state.
There is also the IP issues with parts of projects like OpenCV, and the patent holders (university legal departments) make it nearly impossible to license. i.e. unless you have >$3m to drop on each component... expect to get ignored or sued in a commercial setting.
This is why we can't have nice things, as most FOSS software is perpetually Beta ... Thus, nearly impossible to "clean" and deploy in a commercial setting due to coincidental contamination from the original IP rights holders (not the coder.) =3
https://youtu.be/_lOT2p_FCvA?si=10TqsftmOedHPG-B&t=30