Open Platform for Robotic Services (OPRoS) is an open source robot software platform funded by the Korean government. Its research results are released on its homepage. OPRoS supplies several IDEs working with its framework for easy and fast development. The Component Editor, Component Composer, and Simulator are core development tools for ubiquitous robot. Robot-in-the-loop-Simulation (RILS) is an additional simulation based development tool. This paper explains these core tools used with a reference robot.

In this paper, an efficient development environment for vertical integration of many tasks involved with robot programming, called Open software Platform for Robotic Services (OPRoS), is presented. It covers from the control of hardware (HW) devices to the execution of complicated application programs. Based on general software (SW) architecture, standardized components with design patterns, frameworks, and servers are offered for developing robot SW applications easily and efficiently. Specially, an easy and one-stop Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and simulation tools are provided to make the management and debugging easier, and to check performance in advance. For an all-level development environment, the IDE of OPRoS supports development from low-level device controls to high-level contents composition, and hence, many programs ranging from HW device programs to complicated applications can be developed and integrated in a single development environment. Additionally, OPRoS makes all modules and components undergo the proper evaluation and test, which avoids potential errors due to incomplete coding. As a comprehensive platform for robot SW applications, OPRoS provides convenient environments for all development steps from editing through verification to execution.

Open Platform for Robotics Services (OPRoS) is a project funded by the South Korea government. Its first released results including executables and source codes with their document, are on its homepage. OPRoS is designed based on component modeling. It covers defined templates of the component, a framework that has component execution engines and several managers, GUI based editors, a simulator as tools for evaluation of robot tasks, and a server that has global repository function for OPRoS components and supports distributed component computation load. Real-time scheduling, multi-board performance, and integration with editors for different level of users are features currently under development. The open source codes are expected to reduce development loads and support fast robot software development.