ROS-Neuro has been designed to represent the first open-source neurorobotic middleware that places human neural interfaces and robotic systems at the same conceptual and implementation level. ROS-Neuro is an extension of ROS that for many years is considered the standard platform for robotics. One of the strengths of ROS is its modularity and the possibility for different research groups to develop stand-alone components all relying on the same standard communication infrastructure. A similar requirement is a cornerstone for the workflow of any closed-loop neural interface where—for instance—acquisition, processing, and decoding methods should run in parallel in order to provide a continuous/discrete control signal to drive the robotic device.

Setup your computer to accept software from rosneuro.github.io.

sudo curl -s --compressed -o /etc/apt/sources.list.d/rosneuro.list "https://rosneuro.github.io/ppa/ubuntu/rosneuro.list"

curl -s --compressed "https://rosneuro.github.io/ppa/ubuntu/rosneuro-key.gpg" | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/rosneuro-key.gpg >/dev/null

First, make sure your Debian package index is up-to-date:

sudo apt-get update

Then, install rosneuro-full:

sudo apt-get install ros-noetic-rosneuro-full

Add ROS-Neuro packages to the rosdep list:

sudo sh -c 'echo "yaml https://rosneuro.github.io/ppa/ubuntu/rosdep-rosneuro-packages.yaml" > /etc/ros/rosdep/sources.list.d/50-rosneuro-packages.list'

Update rosdep:

rosdep update

It is possible to checkout all ROS-Neuro packages in the same workspace and to use catkin_make and catkin_make install to build and install them in the system.

Currently, ROS-Neuro provides the following packages:

• rosneuro_msgs Standard ROS messages in ROS-Neuro framework
• rosneuro/rosneuro_data Data structures in ROS-Neuro framework
• rosneuro/rosneuro_acquisition Generic interface for acquiring data from different devices
• rosneuro/rosneuro_acquisition_eegdev Acquisition plugin for eegdev library
• rosneuro/rosneuro_acquisition_lsl Acquisition plugin for LSL library
• rosneuro/rosneuro_recorder Generic interface for recording neuro data
• rosneuro/rosneuro_visualizer Scope for EEG and EMG data
• rosneuro/rosneuro_buffers Generic buffers for neuro data
• rosneuro/rosneuro_buffers_ringbuffer Buffer plugin for ringbuffer
• rosneuro/rosneuro_filters Generic filters for neuro data
• rosneuro/rosneuro_filters_dc Filters plugin for DC filter
• rosneuro/rosneuro_filters_butterworth Filters plugin for Butterworth filter
• rosneuro/rosneuro_filters_car Filters plugin for CAR filter
• rosneuro/rosneuro_filters_laplacian Filters plugin for Laplacian filter
• rosneuro/rosneuro_filters_blackman Filters plugin for Blackman window
• rosneuro/rosneuro_filters_flattop Filters plugin for Flattop window
• rosneuro/rosneuro_filters_hamming Filters plugin for Hamming window
• rosneuro/rosneuro_filters_hann Filters plugin for Hann window

• Tonin L, Beraldo G, Tortora S, Menegatti E (2022) ROS-Neuro: An Open-Source Platform for Neurorobotics. Front. Neurorobot. 16:886050. doi: 10.3389/fnbot.2022.886050
• Tonin L, Beraldo G, Tortora S, Tagliapietra L, Millàn JdR et al. (2019). ROS-Neuro: A common middleware for BMI and robotics. The acquisition and recorder packages, in Proc of 2019 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC), 2767–2772
• Beraldo G, Tortora S, Menegatti E, Tonin L. (2020). ROS-Neuro: Implementation of a closed-loop BMI based on motor imagery, in Proc of 2020 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), 2031–2037