This Cloud Robotics version is our adaption of the open source Google Cloud Robotics platform that provides infrastructure essential to building and running robotics solutions for business automation. Cloud Robotics Core makes managing robot fleets easy for developers, integrators, and operators. It enables:
- packaging and distribution of applications
- secure, bidirectional robot-cloud communication
- easy integration into SAP BTP Kyma infrastructure.
We consider it as a friendly fork of Google Cloud Robotics and try to keep it as close as possible to it. However there are some differences:
- This version does not Google Cloud Platform services
- We introduced multi-tenancy features
- Some components we did not use have been removed
- There are docker builds instead of bazel
- Cluster provisiong is separated from deployment of Cloud Robotics. In fact there is no automated cluster provisioning at the moment.
Documentation of the applications and their architecture can be found at: https://sap.github.io/cloud-robotics/
Most interesting bits are under src and charts:
src/go: the code that goes into images referenced fromchartschartscontains kubernetes resources for the core platform and apps
We built and tested Cloud Robotics using Kyma k8s clusters where it naturally runs best. However most of our functions are working using Kubernetes plus Istio only.
We Cloud Robotics our deployment on these Kubernetes infrastructure so far:
- SAP BTP Kyma
- Kyma @ Gardener
- Istio @ Gardener
- Istio @ GCP
For getting started please see the deploy-from-sources how-to.
Please see the connecting-robot how-to.
Try executing SAP EWM warehouse orders on autonmous robots 🤖 with the apps of our EWM Cloud Robotics repository.
You are welcome to join forces with us in the quest to ease deploying applications on 🤖! Simply check the Contribution Guidelines.