Reusability of the program
Tt is said that NASA innorder to control their robot Robonaut2 used in the International
Space Station, they not only used programs developed in-house but also used ROS, in order to accomplish their mission in outer space.
Communication Based Program
In order to achieve the reusability of robot software, each program and feature is divided into smaller pieces based on its function. This is called componentization or modularization according to the platform.
It is remarkably usefulfor finding errors because programs that are divided into minimal functions can be debugged
separately.
Support of Development tools
ROS provides debugging tools,
2D visualization tool (rqt, rqt is a software framework of ROS that implements the various GUI tools in the form of plugins)
3D visualization tool (RViz) that can be used without developing necessary tools for robot development.
One of the most important characteristics of ROS is that it provides software tools necessary for robot development, which maximizes the convenience of development.
Active community
community for open source software platform
It is progressing to a state where users come together and think of what robot software should entail for the advancement of robotics and collaborate in order to fill the missing pieces in the puzzle.
Formation of the Eco system
It is creating an ecosystem that everyone ― hardware developers from the robotic field such as robot and sensor companies, ROS development operational team, application software developers, and users ― can be happy with it
