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Quigley and colleagues: ROS, an open-source robot operating system

Contribution grade

Robotics and autonomy · SYSTEM

Reference score150,000Provisional editorial estimate of this exact contribution; its grade is assessed separately.

What changed

Presented an open-source communication and tooling framework for reusable heterogeneous robot software.

Scientific scope

The record is the exact nine-author 2009 ICRA workshop paper. ROS is not an operating system in the conventional kernel sense, and this entry does not absorb later ROS releases, packages, governance or deployed robot systems.

Evidence

The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. The record is the exact nine-author 2009 ICRA workshop paper. ROS is not an operating system in the conventional kernel sense, and this entry does not absorb later ROS releases, packages, governance or deployed robot systems.

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Provisional WRS assessment, edition 2026-10-16.1. Independent expert calibration is pending. This grade does not certify correctness or assign ownership.

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