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Middleware Pain? Meet iceoryx2

UB2.147 | Day 1 | 14:25 - 14:50 | Speakers: Michael Poehnl

Middleware Pain? Meet iceoryx2
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Abstract

Building robots, whether industrial arms or autonomous vehicles, often comes with middleware pain that drains valuable engineering time. Issues like communication delays, execution inconsistencies, poor scalability, and nondeterministic behavior are common and frustrating. Most developers want to focus on their application, not on becoming middleware experts.

This talk introduces iceoryx2, the next generation of the widely used zero-copy middleware Eclipse iceoryx. It is written in Rust, with additional bindings for C, C++, Python, and C#, and runs on a variety of operating systems. iceoryx2 is already used in robotics, automotive, medical, finance, and other domains where high-throughput and low-latency communication are critical.

We will walk through common middleware pain points in robotic systems and show how iceoryx2’s architecture and feature set help eliminate or significantly reduce them.

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Michael Poehnl

Michael Pöhnl is Chief Technology Officer at ekxide IO GmbH. Before joining ekxide, he worked for Apex.AI and Bosch. At Apex.AI, he served as Principal Engineer, where he led the technical strategy and coordinated the product architecture of Apex.Grace and Apex.Ida. At Bosch, he held various engineering and research roles, focusing on engine control systems, video-based driver assistance, corporate research, and automated driving. Over the past 15+ years, his work has centered on zero-copy data communication. A microcontroller-based middleware he developed is deployed in radar, front video, and surround-view systems across millions of production vehicles from multiple manufacturers. The POSIX version, developed by his teams, was open-sourced in 2019 as Eclipse iceoryx and is now used across a range of industries worldwide. Today, ekxide is the main company behind the Eclipse iceoryx project, continuing its development and stewardship.

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