Budget-based real-time Executor for Micro-ROS
| Autor: | Staschulat, Jan, Lange, Ralph, Dasari, Dakshina Narahari |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| Popis: | The Robot Operating System (ROS) is a popular robotics middleware framework. In the last years, it underwent a redesign and reimplementation under the name ROS~2. It now features QoS-configurable communication and a flexible layered architecture. Micro-ROS is a variant developed specifically for resource-constrained microcontrollers (MCU). Such MCUs are commonly used in robotics for sensors and actuators, for time-critical control functions, and for safety. While the execution management of ROS 2 has been addressed by an Executor concept, its lack of real-time capabilities make it unsuitable for industrial use. Neither defining an execution order nor the assignment of scheduling parameters to tasks is possible, despite the fact that advanced real-time scheduling algorithms are well-known and available in modern RTOS's. For example, the NuttX RTOS supports a variant of the reservation-based scheduling which is very attractive for industrial applications: It allows to assign execution time budgets to software components so that a system integrator can thereby guarantee the real-time requirements of the entire system. This paper presents for the first time a ROS~2 Executor design which enables the real-time scheduling capabilities of the operating system. In particular, we successfully demonstrate the budget-based scheduling of the NuttX RTOS with a micro-ROS application on an STM32 microcontroller. Comment: 4 pages, 5 figures, submitted to RTAS conference |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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