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## The Crisis ROS1 (Robot Operating System 1) reached end-of-life in May 2025.

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Core trick

Static analysis catalogs ROS1 API usage across packages, then an LLM rewrites code and retries colcon builds up to three times.

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robotics/hardwaredev tools

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## The Crisis ROS1 (Robot Operating System 1) reached end-of-life in May 2025. Yet thousands of production robotics codebases — autonomous drone flight stacks, warehouse robots, surgical systems, defense platforms — are still running on it. Security patches have stopped. Community support is gone. The clock is running. The robotics industry knows it needs to migrate. Nobody has a good way to do it.
dronomyio/ros1_to_ros2_migration_agent★ 00 forksPythonCreated Apr 19, 2026 · last push Apr 19, 2026

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# ROS1 → ROS2 Migration Analysis Agent

<img width="714" height="681" alt="Screenshot 2026-04-19 at 10 57 53 AM" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/ceefeb73-38e5-4a60-8c53-1c5818f513d4" />

The dashed red loop shows the eval-correct cycle — when colcon reports errors, the agent reads them, calls o4-mini again, and retries up to 3 times before moving on.

> **AI-Native Development Lifecycle** — Feasibility Analysis Phase  
> Agent: `ros1_analyzer.py` | Stack: dronomy.io / Vectorblock / AdaBoost AI

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## Overview

This agent walks through 4 KumarRobotics MAV repositories, performs a deep static analysis of all ROS1 usage patterns, and generates:

- **Individual markdown report** per repository
- **Master feasibility report** with cross-cutting pain points and migration roadmap
- **JSON data** per repo for downstream processing

The lifecycle follows the **AI-Native Development Lifecycle** diagram:

```
Ideation (you spec the work)
    ↓
Code Generation (agent writes all analysis code)
    ↓
Code Review (agent + human review findings)
    ↓
Validation (agent tests end-to-end)
    ↓
Build/Test failures → Incident Response → back to Ideation
    ↑_______________ Agent Orchestrator _______________↑
```

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## Repositories Analyzed

| Repo | Role |
|------|------|
| `kr_autonomous_flight-master-2` | Full autonomy stack — state machine, planning, estimation, sim |
| `kr_mav_control-master` | MAV control: SO3 controller, trackers, interfaces, simulator |
| `msckf_vio

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