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  • Installation
    • Ubuntu (deb packages)
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    • Alternatives
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      • RHEL (source)
      • RHEL (binary)
      • macOS (source)
      • Latest development (source)
    • Maintain source checkout
    • Testing with pre-release binaries
    • DDS implementations
      • Eclipse Cyclone DDS
      • GurumNetworks GurumDDS
      • RTI Connext DDS
      • eProsima Fast DDS
  • Distributions
    • Jazzy Jalisco (jazzy)
      • Jazzy Jalisco changelog
    • Humble Hawksbill (humble)
      • Humble Hawksbill changelog
    • Rolling Ridley (rolling)
    • Development Distribution
      • Kilted Kaiju (codename ‘kilted’; May, 2025)
    • End-of-Life Distributions
      • Iron Irwini (iron)
        • Iron Irwini Changelog
      • Galactic Geochelone (galactic)
        • Galactic Geochelone changelog
      • Foxy Fitzroy (foxy)
      • Eloquent Elusor (eloquent)
      • Dashing Diademata (dashing)
      • Crystal Clemmys (crystal)
      • Bouncy Bolson (bouncy)
      • Ardent Apalone (ardent)
      • Beta 3 (r2b3)
      • Beta 2 (r2b2)
      • Beta 1 (Asphalt)
      • Alphas
    • Development process for a release
  • Tutorials
    • Beginner: CLI tools
      • Configuring environment
      • Using turtlesim, ros2, and rqt
      • Understanding nodes
      • Understanding topics
      • Understanding services
      • Understanding parameters
      • Understanding actions
      • Using rqt_console to view logs
      • Launching nodes
      • Recording and playing back data
    • Beginner: Client libraries
      • Using colcon to build packages
      • Creating a workspace
      • Creating a package
      • Writing a simple publisher and subscriber (C++)
      • Writing a simple publisher and subscriber (Python)
      • Writing a simple service and client (C++)
      • Writing a simple service and client (Python)
      • Creating custom msg and srv files
      • Implementing custom interfaces
      • Using parameters in a class (C++)
      • Using parameters in a class (Python)
      • Using ros2doctor to identify issues
      • Creating and using plugins (C++)
    • Intermediate
      • Managing Dependencies with rosdep
      • Creating an action
      • Writing an action server and client (C++)
      • Writing an action server and client (Python)
      • Writing a Composable Node (C++)
      • Composing multiple nodes in a single process
      • Using the Node Interfaces Template Class (C++)
      • Publishing messages using YAML files
      • Monitoring for parameter changes (C++)
      • Monitoring for parameter changes (Python)
      • Launch
        • Creating a launch file
        • Integrating launch files into ROS 2 packages
        • Using substitutions
        • Using event handlers
        • Managing large projects
      • tf2
        • Introducing tf2
        • Writing a static broadcaster (Python)
        • Writing a static broadcaster (C++)
        • Writing a broadcaster (Python)
        • Writing a broadcaster (C++)
        • Writing a listener (Python)
        • Writing a listener (C++)
        • Adding a frame (Python)
        • Adding a frame (C++)
        • Using time (C++)
        • Traveling in time (C++)
        • Debugging
        • Quaternion fundamentals
        • Using stamped datatypes with tf2_ros::MessageFilter
      • Testing
        • Running Tests in ROS 2 from the Command Line
        • Writing Basic Tests with C++ with GTest
        • Writing Basic Tests with Python
        • Writing Basic Integration Tests with launch_testing
        • Testing Your Code with the ROS Build Farm
      • URDF
        • Building a visual robot model from scratch
        • Building a movable robot model
        • Adding physical and collision properties
        • Using Xacro to clean up your code
        • Using URDF with robot_state_publisher (C++)
        • Using URDF with robot_state_publisher (Python)
        • Generating an URDF File
      • RViz
        • RViz User Guide
        • Building a Custom RViz Display
        • Building a Custom RViz Panel
        • Marker: Display types
    • Advanced
      • Enabling topic statistics (C++)
      • Using Fast DDS Discovery Server as discovery protocol [community-contributed]
      • Implementing a custom memory allocator
      • Ament Lint CLI Utilities
      • Unlocking the potential of Fast DDS middleware [community-contributed]
      • Improved Dynamic Discovery
      • Recording a bag from a node (C++)
      • Recording a bag from a node (Python)
      • Reading from a bag file (C++)
      • Reading from a bag file (Python)
      • How to use ros2_tracing to trace and analyze an application
      • Simulators
        • Webots
          • Installation (Ubuntu)
          • Installation (Windows)
          • Installation (macOS)
          • Setting up a robot simulation (Basic)
          • Setting up a robot simulation (Advanced)
          • Setting up a Reset Handler
          • The Ros2Supervisor Node
        • Gazebo
          • Setting up a robot simulation (Gazebo)
      • Security
        • Setting up security
        • Understanding the security keystore
        • Ensuring security across machines
        • Examining network traffic
        • Setting access controls
        • Deployment Guidelines
    • Demos
      • Using quality-of-service settings for lossy networks
      • Managing nodes with managed lifecycles
      • Setting up efficient intra-process communication
      • Recording and playing back data with rosbag using the ROS 1 bridge
      • Understanding real-time programming
      • Experimenting with a dummy robot
      • Logging
      • Creating a content filtering subscription
      • Configure service introspection
      • Configure action introspection
      • Wait for acknowledgment
    • Miscellaneous
      • Deploying on IBM Cloud Kubernetes [community-contributed]
      • Using Eclipse Oxygen with rviz2 [community-contributed]
      • Building a real-time Linux kernel [community-contributed]
      • Building a package with Eclipse 2021-06
  • How-to Guides
    • Installation troubleshooting
    • Developing a ROS 2 package
    • Documenting a ROS 2 package
    • ament_cmake user documentation
    • ament_cmake_python user documentation
    • Migrating from ROS 1 to ROS 2
      • Migrating Packages
      • Migrating your package.xml to format 2
      • Migrating Interfaces
      • Migrating a C++ Package Example
      • Migrating C++ Packages Reference
      • Migrating a Python Package Example
      • Migrating Python Packages Reference
      • Migrating Launch Files
      • Migrating Parameters
      • Migrating Scripts
    • Using XML, YAML, and Python for ROS 2 Launch Files
    • Using ROS 2 launch to launch composable nodes
    • Passing ROS arguments to nodes via the command-line
    • Synchronous vs. asynchronous service clients
    • DDS tuning information
    • rosbag2: Overriding QoS Policies
    • Working with multiple ROS 2 middleware implementations
    • Cross-compilation
    • Releasing a Package
      • Index Your Packages
      • First Time Release
      • Subsequent Releases
      • Release Team / Repository
      • Release Track
    • Using Python Packages with ROS 2
    • Running ROS 2 nodes in Docker [community-contributed]
    • ROS 2 Core Maintainer Guide
    • Building a custom deb package
    • Building ROS 2 with tracing
    • Topics vs Services vs Actions
    • Using variants
    • Using the ros2 param command-line tool
    • Using ros1_bridge with upstream ROS on Ubuntu 22.04
    • Configure Zero Copy Loaned Messages
    • ROS 2 on Raspberry Pi
    • Using Callback Groups
    • Getting Backtraces in ROS 2
    • IDEs and Debugging [community-contributed]
    • Setup ROS 2 with VSCode and Docker [community-contributed]
    • Using Custom Rosdistro Version
  • Concepts
    • Basic Concepts
      • Nodes
      • Discovery
      • Interfaces
      • Topics
      • Services
      • Actions
      • Parameters
      • Introspection with command line tools
      • Launch
      • Client libraries
    • Intermediate Concepts
      • The ROS_DOMAIN_ID
      • Different ROS 2 middleware vendors
      • Logging and logger configuration
      • Quality of Service settings
      • Executors
      • Topic statistics
      • Overview and usage of RQt
      • Composition
      • Cross-compilation
      • ROS 2 Security
      • Tf2
    • Advanced Concepts
      • The build system
      • Internal ROS 2 interfaces
      • ROS 2 middleware implementations
  • Contact
  • The ROS 2 Project
    • Contributing
      • ROS 2 developer guide
      • Code style and language versions
      • Quality guide: ensuring code quality
      • ROS Build Farms
      • Windows Tips and Tricks
      • Contributing to ROS 2 Documentation
    • Features Status
    • Feature Ideas
    • Roadmap
    • ROSCon Talks
    • Project Governance
    • Marketing
    • Metrics
  • Package Docs
  • Related Projects
    • Intel ROS 2 Projects
    • NVIDIA ROS 2 Projects
    • Visualizing ROS 2 data with Foxglove
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Related Projects

Gazebo

Gazebo (gazebosim.org) and its predecessor Gazebo Classic are the first open source choice for 3D physics simulation of ROS-based robots.

Large Community Projects

Large community projects involve multiple developers from all over the globe and are typically backed by a dedicated working group (cf. Project Governance).

  • ros2_control (control.ros.org): Flexible framework for real-time control of robots implemented with ROS 2.

  • Navigation2 (nav2.org): Comprehensive and flexible navigation stack for mobile robots using ROS 2.

  • MoveIt (moveit.ai): A rich platform for building manipulation applications featuring advanced kinematics, motion planning, control, collision checking, and much more.

  • micro-ROS (micro.ros.org): A platform for putting ROS 2 onto microcontrollers, starting at less than 100 kB of RAM.

Further Community Projects

The global ROS community develops and maintains hundreds of further packages on top of the core ROS 2 stack. Some of them come with their own websites for documentation. Your best entry point to discover these works is the ROS Index (index.ros.org).

Hint for developers: If you maintain a README.md file in the root of your package folder (which is not necessarily the root of your repository), this file is rendered into the overview page of your package at index.ros.org. The file may be used for documenting your package and supersedes the package documentation pages in the ROS Wiki from ROS 1. See the fmi_adapter package as an example.

Company-driven Projects

  • Intel ROS 2 Projects
  • NVIDIA ROS 2 Projects
  • Visualizing ROS 2 data with Foxglove
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