Repositories list

• rosdistro

  Public
  This repo maintains a lists of repositories for each ROS distribution

  Python

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  BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License

  •2.6k•976•23•13•Updated May 7, 2025May 7, 2025

• meta-ros

  Public
  OpenEmbedded Layers for ROS 1 and ROS 2

  BitBake

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  MIT License

  •267•421•78•15•Updated May 6, 2025May 6, 2025

• solidworks_urdf_exporter

  Public
  SolidWorks to URDF Exporter

  C#

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  MIT License

  •112•455•38•0•Updated May 6, 2025May 6, 2025

• nodelet_core

  Public
  Allows one to create "nodelets" -- ROS node-like entities that run within the same process so as to avoid IPC and serialization overhead

  C++

  •79•49•15•2•Updated May 5, 2025May 5, 2025

• actionlib

  Public
  Provides a standardized interface for interfacing with preemptable tasks. Examples of this include moving the base to a target location, performing a laser scan and returning the resulting point cloud, detecting the handle of a door, etc.

  C++

  •156•99•44•6•Updated May 5, 2025May 5, 2025

• ros_comm

  Public
  ROS communications-related packages, including core client libraries (roscpp, rospy, roslisp) and graph introspection tools (rostopic, rosnode, rosservice, rosparam).

  roboticsros

  Python

  •915•784•359•21•Updated May 5, 2025May 5, 2025

• diagnostics

  Public
  Packages related to gathering, viewing, and analyzing diagnostics data from robots.

  monitoringdiagnosticsros

  C++

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  Other

  •188•118•22•13•Updated May 5, 2025May 5, 2025

• geometry_tutorials

  Public
  ROS geometry_tutorials stack migrated from https://kforge.ros.org/geometry/tutorials/branches

  Python

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  Apache License 2.0

  •54•34•2•1•Updated May 5, 2025May 5, 2025

• roscpp_core

  Public
  ros distribution sandbox

  C++

  •117•91•0•0•Updated May 4, 2025May 4, 2025

• geometry2

  Public
  A set of ROS packages for keeping track of coordinate transforms.

  C++

  •280•193•84•5•Updated May 2, 2025May 2, 2025

• urdfdom

  Public
  URDF parser

  C++

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  Other

  •135•105•28•19•Updated May 2, 2025May 2, 2025

• filters

  Public
  This library provides a standardized interface for processing data as a sequence of filters. This package contains a base class upon which to build specific implementations as well as an interface which dynamically loads filters based on runtime parameters.

  C++

  •52•41•6•2•Updated May 1, 2025May 1, 2025

• xacro

  Public
  Xacro is an XML macro language. With xacro, you can construct shorter and more readable XML files by using macros that expand to larger XML expressions.

  Python

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  BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License

  •100•95•7•3•Updated Apr 29, 2025Apr 29, 2025

• urdf

  Public
  Repository for URDF parsing code

  C++

  •44•70•4•0•Updated Apr 26, 2025Apr 26, 2025

• rospack

  Public
  A command-line tool for retrieving information about ROS packages available on the filesystem

  C++

  •65•15•0•0•Updated Apr 26, 2025Apr 26, 2025

• ros

  Public
  Core ROS packages

  Python

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  BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License

  •803•3k•23•3•Updated Apr 26, 2025Apr 26, 2025

• resource_retriever

  Public
  Package used to retrieve resources of different kinds, e.g. http://, file://, the ROS specific package://, etc.

  C++

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  BSD 3-Clause Clear License

  •42•11•4•0•Updated Apr 26, 2025Apr 26, 2025

• ros_tutorials

  Public
  Code used in tutorials found on ROS wiki

  C++

  •565•845•13•2•Updated Apr 26, 2025Apr 26, 2025

• robot_state_publisher

  Public
  Allows you to publish the state of a robot (i.e the position of its base and all joints) via the "tf" transform library

  C++

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  BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License

  •173•100•14•2•Updated Apr 26, 2025Apr 26, 2025

• kdl_parser

  Public
  kdl_parser and kdl_parser_py provide tools to construct a KDL tree from an XML robot representation in URDF.

  C++

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  BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License

  •72•72•4•2•Updated Apr 26, 2025Apr 26, 2025

• pluginlib

  Public
  Library for loading/unloading plugins in ROS packages during runtime

  C++

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  BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License

  •104•58•18•5•Updated Apr 26, 2025Apr 26, 2025

• geometry

  Public
  Packages for common geometric calculations including the ROS transform library, "tf". Also includes ROS bindings for "bullet" physics engine and "kdl" kinematics/dynamics package.

  C++

  •276•176•25•2•Updated Apr 25, 2025Apr 25, 2025

• genpy

  Public
  genpy

  Python

  •65•31•8•1•Updated Apr 25, 2025Apr 25, 2025

• gencpp

  Public
  ROS C++ message definition and serialization generators

  Python

  •70•25•3•0•Updated Apr 25, 2025Apr 25, 2025

• dynamic_reconfigure

  Public
  Python

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  BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License

  •110•48•35•1•Updated Apr 25, 2025Apr 25, 2025

• common_msgs

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  Commonly used messages in ROS. Includes messages for actions (actionlib_msgs), diagnostics (diagnostic_msgs), geometric primitives (geometry_msgs), robot navigation (nav_msgs), and common sensors (sensor_msgs), such as laser range finders, cameras, point clouds.

  C++

  •191•200•15•0•Updated Apr 25, 2025Apr 25, 2025

• cmake_modules

  Public
  A common repository for CMake Modules which are not distributed with CMake but are commonly used by ROS packages.

  CMake

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  BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License

  •51•34•6•0•Updated Apr 25, 2025Apr 25, 2025

• class_loader

  Public
  ROS-independent library for dynamic class (i.e. plugin) introspection and loading from runtime libraries

  C++

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  BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License

  •96•36•19•10•Updated Apr 25, 2025Apr 25, 2025

• catkin

  Public
  A CMake-based build system that is used to build all packages in ROS.

  Python

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  BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License

  •284•331•32•6•Updated Apr 25, 2025Apr 25, 2025

• bond_core

  Public
  Maintains a bond (i.e. heart beat ) between ROS nodes and provides feedback when the bond is broken

  C++

  •67•40•17•1•Updated Apr 25, 2025Apr 25, 2025