The Robot Operating System (ROS) is powerful middleware for robotics, but it comes with significant integration challenges: complex setup, difficult debugging, and no built-in way to manage robots remotely or at scale. Teams often spend months on infrastructure before writing any business logic.
Cyberwave eliminates this complexity. Instead of building your own ROS infrastructure, you deploy our lightweight edge agent and immediately gain remote access, observability, and fleet management.
The ROS Challenge
ROS solves inter-process communication on a single robot:
- Nodes: Processes that perform computation (drivers, planners, vision systems).
- Topics: Named buses for message exchange (
/scan,/cmd_vel). - Services: Request/reply patterns for specific tasks.
But ROS alone doesn't give you:
- Remote access to robots in the field
- Centralized logging and debugging across a fleet
- Safety enforcement and emergency stops
- Easy deployment of new code or configurations
Cyberwave provides all of this out of the box.
How Cyberwave Simplifies ROS Integration
Instead of building custom infrastructure, install the Cyberwave Edge agent alongside your ROS stack. Within minutes, you have:
1. Remote Visualization & Debugging
Forget SSH-ing into robots or setting up VPNs. Cyberwave streams your ROS topics to the cloud automatically:
- Live 3D View: See joint states, Lidar, and camera feeds from your browser—anywhere in the world.
- Searchable Logs: Every mission is indexed. Find that edge case from 3 weeks ago without digging through bag files.
- No rviz Setup: Your operators don't need ROS installed to monitor robots.
2. One API for Any ROS Robot
Cyberwave abstracts the specifics of your ROS setup. Send a high-level command like "Go to Waypoint A" and Cyberwave translates it to the right ROS message (geometry_msgs/PoseStamped to /move_base_simple/goal). Your control logic works the same whether the robot uses move_base, Nav2, or a custom controller.
3. Built-in Safety Layer
ROS has no built-in safety enforcement. A buggy node can send dangerous commands directly to motors. Cyberwave's Safety Interceptor sits between your commands and the hardware:
- Geofencing: Block navigation goals outside valid zones.
- Rate Limiting: Cap velocities based on operational modes.
- Emergency Stop: One-click halt from the dashboard or automatic watchdog triggers.
4. Deploy to Fleets, Not Individual Robots
Push configuration changes, new code, or updated parameters to hundreds of robots at once. A/B test different behaviors. Roll back instantly if something goes wrong.
Get Started
The fastest path to a working ROS + Cyberwave integration:
- Install the Cyberwave Edge agent on your robot
- Connect it to your workspace
- Start streaming telemetry and sending commands
See the ROS Integration Guide for step-by-step instructions.