Create an open community and common software repository where researchers, robotics professionals, and industrial controls experts can contribute robust and reliable manufacturing related ROS software, combining the relative strengths of ROS and existing technologies (i.e. combining ROS high level functionality with the low level reliability and safety of robot controllers).
Over time ROS Industrial will be positioned to become the leader, and standard, in advanced robotics software by presenting a new way to solve complex challenges through the democratization of tools and capabilities, thus driving end user value through new capability leverage, and solution provider value by focusing on the new capability creation versus recreation of interfaces and building blocks.