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Citing OpenRoIS​

The position paper describing OpenRoIS was submitted to SII 2027 and is under review. Its preprint is on arXiv as arXiv:2609.21178, with the DOI 10.48550/arXiv.2609.21178. Until the paper is published, please cite the preprint.

@misc{carrera2026openrois,
  author        = {Carrera Villalobos, Sebastian and Arellano, Christopher Nolan and
                   Hitzmann, Arne and Morais Brito, Edilson and Utsumi, Akira and
                   Horikawa, Yukiko and Miyashita, Takahiro and El Hafi, Lotfi},
  title         = {{OpenRoIS}: A Community-Driven Open-Source Middleware Implementing
                   the Robotic Interaction Service ({RoIS}) Framework for Physical
                   Robots and Virtual Agents},
  year          = {2026},
  eprint        = {2609.21178},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass  = {cs.RO},
  doi           = {10.48550/arXiv.2609.21178},
  url           = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.21178},
  note          = {Submitted to the 2027 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on
                   System Integration (SII 2027)}
}

If you use OpenRoIS in your research, please also cite the software. The repository provides the same information in machine-readable form in CITATION.cff, which GitHub turns into a "Cite this repository" button.

@software{openrois,
  author  = {{OpenRoIS Community}},
  title   = {{OpenRoIS}: Open-Source Middleware Implementing the {OMG}
             Robotic Interaction Service ({RoIS}) Framework 2.0},
  url     = {https://openrois.org/},
  license = {Apache-2.0},
  year    = {2026}
}

When your work depends on the standard itself, please also cite the specification:

@techreport{omg_rois_2026,
  author      = {{Object Management Group}},
  title       = {Robotic Interaction Service ({RoIS}) Framework, Version 2.0},
  institution = {Object Management Group},
  number      = {formal/26-06-03},
  year        = {2026},
  month       = jun,
  url         = {https://www.omg.org/spec/RoIS/2.0}
}

License​

OpenRoIS source code, interface types, and documentation are released under the Apache License 2.0. Copyright 2026 Coarobo GK. OpenRoIS is developed by Coarobo GK and the OpenRoIS community.

The normative RoIS specification and its machine-readable files are published by the Object Management Group under their own terms. OpenRoIS does not redistribute or modify them.

Trademarks​

OpenRoIS is a trademark of Coarobo GK. RoIS and OMG are trademarks of the Object Management Group. Other names are trademarks of their respective owners and are used for identification only.