7-9 October, 2026 Prague, Czechia View More Details & Registration Important Note:Timing of sessions and room locations are subject to change.
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The Robot Operating System (ROS) is the de facto standard open-source middleware for building robot software, providing standardized messaging, tooling, and reusable components. ros2_control is a hardware-agnostic control framework focusing on the modular composition of control systems for robots, sharing of controllers as well as real-time performance.
Bringing ros2_control to embedded systems usually means bolting heavy DDS serialization and a bridge process onto microcontrollers. Zenbedded fixes this. It is a monolithic Zephyr, Zenoh, and ROS 2 framework built specifically for ros2_control. We put the transport, the RTOS client library, and the host-side hardware_interface plugin into one tight repository. On the wire, we use a multi-tier transport that moves along a spectrum. You can choose between fully ROS-observable but slightly slower, or fully binary-encoded and fast, depending on what your control loop actually needs. You'll leave with a pattern for running ros2_control on Zephyr-class hardware and a feel for working with ROS and ros2_control. We'll demo the stack balancing a real inverted pendulum on an ESP32, where latency is the difference between upright and toppled.
