See ros_control and control_toolbox documentation on ros.org
If you find this work useful please give credits to the authors by citing:
- S. Chitta, E. Marder-Eppstein, W. Meeussen, V. Pradeep, A. Rodríguez Tsouroukdissian, J. Bohren, D. Coleman, B. Magyar, G. Raiola, M. Lüdtke and E. Fernandez Perdomo "ros_control: A generic and simple control framework for ROS", The Journal of Open Source Software, 2017. (PDF)
@article{ros_control,
author = {Chitta, Sachin and Marder-Eppstein, Eitan and Meeussen, Wim and Pradeep, Vijay and Rodr{\'i}guez Tsouroukdissian, Adolfo and Bohren, Jonathan and Coleman, David and Magyar, Bence and Raiola, Gennaro and L{\"u}dtke, Mathias and Fern{\'a}ndez Perdomo, Enrique},
title = {ros\_control: A generic and simple control framework for ROS},
journal = {The Journal of Open Source Software},
year = {2017},
doi = {10.21105/joss.00456},
URL = {http://www.theoj.org/joss-papers/joss.00456/10.21105.joss.00456.pdf}
}