ROSIN
The ROSIN project: Towards an EU Digital Industrial Platform for Robotics through Open-Source Software
- Project Title
- ROS-Industrial quality-assured robot software components
- Funding Agency
- European Union "Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation" Programme
- Grant No
- Grant Agreement No. 732287
- Funding Sum
- 7.504.236 EUR
- Professors
- Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Alexander Ferrein (FB5), Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stephan Kallweit (FB8)
- Researchers
- Patrick Wiesen, M.Sc, Nicolas Limpert, B.Sc., Dr. Stefan Schiffer
- Project Partners
- Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands, coordinator), Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA (Germany), IT University of Copenhagen (Denmark), Fachhochschule Aachen University of Applied Sciences (Germany), Fundacion Tecnalia Research and Innovation (Spain), ABB AB (Sweden).
- Website
- www.rosin-project.eu
Open-Source Software for robots is a de-facto practice in academia, and its advantages can benefit industrial applications as well. The worldwide ROS-Industrial initiative has been using ROS, the Robot Operating System, to this end. In order to consolidate Europe’s dominance in advanced manufacturing, the H2020 project ROSIN will push the role of the EU within ROS-Industrial to a leading position.
It will achieve this goal through three main actions on ROS:
- ensuring industrial-grade software quality,
- promoting new business-relevant applications by providing 50% of the project’s budget for European users and developers,
- supporting educational activities for students and industry professionals. Interested entities are welcome to apply for participation.
The MASCOR Institute is coordinating the educational activities in the ROSIN project. The public launch of ROSIN was given on March 22, 2017 at the European Robotics Forum (ERF) in Edinburgh.
The official press release can be found here.
Apart from developing components for quality assurance ourselves, 50% of the project budget are reserved for so-called Focused Technical Projects (FTPs). In these FTPs, applicants can be provided with up to 30% of the costs of an Open Source robotics project relevant to ROS Industrial. Application can be filed on the official website www.rosin-project.eu.