ROS -- Robot Operating System

ROS is an operating system for your robot. It provides the services you would expect from an operating system, including hardware abstraction, low-level device control, implementation of commonly-used functionality, message-passing between processes, and package management. ROS is similar in some respects to 'robot frameworks,' such as Player, CARMEN, Orca, MOOS, and Microsoft Robotics Studio.

The primary goal of ROS is to enable code reuse in robotics research and development. We aim to make it easy to reuse code at every level, and make it easy for anybody to publish code for reuse by others. (more)

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Documentation

For the user

Introductions and howtos:

• Overview

  • Introduction

  • Concepts

  • Technical Overview

• Frequently asked questions

• Repository map

• Installation instructions

• Environment variables

• Command-line tools

• ROS package system

• Tutorials

• Building ROS packages

• Supported Hardware

• Sensor Calibration Algorithms

Reference manuals:

• Documentation on ROS version 0.5.0 (latest stable release)

• Documentation on ROS + PersonalRobots packages (latest SVN)

• Documentation on ROS version 0.4.0

Getting help:

• Troubleshooting

• Mailing list

• ROS Bug Tracker personalrobots Bug Tracker

• SourceForge page

• List of changes in each release

• Development Roadmap

For the node developer

• ROS developer's guide

• The ROS build system

• Automated build and test dashboard

• Documenting Packages

• Message Description Language (.msg files)

• Service Description Language (.srv files)

For the client library developer

• Master Slave APIs

Downloads/Source Code

• Core ROS code is hosted in the ROS project at SourceForge: http://ros.sf.net.

  • To check out the core code:

svn co https://ros.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/ros/trunk ros

• ROS packages (i.e., code that uses the core) are hosted in the Personal Robots project at SourceForge: http://personalrobots.sf.net

  • To check out the package code:

svn co https://personalrobots.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/personalrobots/pkg/trunk ros-pkg

• Other ROS Repositories