intel-iot-refkit: add doc for industrial profile

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Rozhkov <dmitry.rozhkov@linux.intel.com>

Author: Dmitry Rozhkov

doc/industrial-profile.rst

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+Industrial Robotics profile
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+
+Introduction
+============
+
+The purpose of the industrial profile is to provide a solid base for
+developing robotics applications that can be used for labour automation in
+manufacturing, logistics and other domains.
+
+Target audience
+===============
+
+The profile is for anybody who is interested in developing such applications
+on top of Intel hardware. The main use cases are:
+
+#. Welding/Soldering;
+#. Material handling;
+#. Dispensing/Coating;
+#. Pick and place.
+
+However combined with the computer vision profile they can be extended to
+other applications like drones, self-driving cars, agricultural robots etc.
+
+Value proposition
+=================
+
+Industrial Robotics profile is made to simplify creation of products using
+robotics technologies and is tailored for embedded hardware. Being a part of
+Yocto layer it provides full control over build configuration. Unlike
+other robotics projects the profile is independent from external binary
+package streams.
+
+Key components
+==============
+
+So far the `ROS Industrial`_ (ROS-I) project has been identified as a starting
+point for the base and this profile includes core packages from the project
+and their direct dependencies.
+
+ROS-I is a layer between `ROS`_ (a set of software libraries and tools used
+in robot applications) and industrial hardware equipment converting
+messages in ROS formats to something understandable by actual hardware.
+Although no vendor specific packages are included at the moment.
+
+Currently the profile includes:
+
+- core ROS components,
+- libraries for handling geometry and kinematics models of robots in
+  the URDF format,
+- components from the `MoveIt!`_ framework responsible for a robot's
+  joints movement planning,
+- core ROS-I components used for interfacing with real robot hardware.
+
+Due to the embedded nature of IoT Refkit no GUI components have been included
+in the profile. Users are expected to run ROS GUI nodes (e.g. Rviz) on
+their workstations if there's such a need.
+
+For detailed usage instructions please refer `ROS Industrial tutorials`_
+
+The ``meta-refkit-extra`` layer contains example ROS applications and
+detailed instructions on how to run them.
+
+.. _ROS Industrial: http://rosindustrial.org
+.. _ROS: http://ros.org
+.. _MoveIt!: http://moveit.ros.org
+.. _ROS Industrial tutorials: http://wiki.ros.org/Industrial/Tutorials