Exponential Growth of ROS

摘要

he open-source robot operat- ing system (ROS) has been growing exponentially and has reached the critical mass. Every time we start to write this column, this fact worries us because, we fear, what- ever we write now (three months before this magazine gets published) will be very old news by the time you read it. Nevertheless, in this edition, we'll report on the state of things in the ROS world, with the hope that at least we'll spark your interest in visiting http://ros.org to learn about the latest developments. The growth of a worldwide commu-