Efforts to solve open-source robot development issues by the RRI Research and Review Committee – Third Report –

Abstract

As robot development using open-source software (OSS) becomes popular, the issues related to OSS for robot product development are becoming apparent. Since 2021, the authors have set up a committee to discuss these issues at the Robot Revolution and Industrial IoT Initiative (RRI). The committee is working on contributions such as grasping the OSS community and its development and standardization trends, OSS quality evaluation, functional and documentation improvement, which are essential for companies to use OSS. This paper introduces the activity status in 2021.