AWS IoT Greengrass, or Greengrass for short, is a way of deploying software to an edge device, like a server on a factory floor, and managing the lifecycle of that software. From the cloud you can configure the software that is deployed to the edge and how that software is configured, as well as build your own software to be deployed by Greengrass.
This post is about connecting ROS2 robots to the cloud with a quick and simple Greengrass setup. I'll guide you through building a sample component that can be hosted on a server connected to your robot fleet, which will connect the robots to AWS IoT Core without modifying the robot software in any way. Setup requires installing only a few prerequisites.
Congratulations! You have a whole lab full of robots running your latest software. Now you want to start looking at an overall view of your robots. It's time to build a fleet overview, and this post will show you how to use Fleet Indexing from AWS IoT Device Management to start your overview.
This post shows how to build two simple functions, running in the cloud, using AWS Lambda. The purpose of these functions is the same - to update the status of a given robot name in a database, allowing us to view the current statuses in the database or build tools on top of it.
In this post, I'll show how to use two major concepts together:
This post shows how to build a Robot Operating System 2 node using Rust, a systems programming language built for safety, security, and performance.