Documentation - ROS Wiki (original) (raw)

ROS (Robot Operating System) provides libraries and tools to help software developers create robot applications. It provides hardware abstraction, device drivers, libraries, visualizers, message-passing, package management, and more. ROS is licensed under an open source, BSD license.

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ROS:

• Introduction
  • An introduction to what is ROS.
• Install
  • Install ROS on your machine.
    Getting Started
  • Learn about various concepts, client libraries, and technical overview of ROS.
    Tutorials
  • Step-by-step instructions for learning ROS hands-on
    Contribute
  • How to get involved with the ROS community, such as submitting your own repository.
    Support
  • What to do if something doesn't work as expected.
    Quality Assurance
  • How to ensure that your ROS-based systems and your contributions to ROS are of high quality.

Software:

• Distributions
  • View the different release Distributions for ROS.
    Packages
  • Search the 2000+ software libraries available for ROS.
    Core Libraries
  • APIs by language and topic.
    Common Tools
  • Common tools for developing and debugging ROS software.

Robots/Hardware:

• Robots
  • Robots that you can use with ROS.
    Sensors
  • Sensor drivers for ROS.
    Motors
  • Motor controller drivers for ROS.

Publications, Courses, and Events:

• Papers
  • Published papers with open source implementations available.
• Books
  • Published books with documentation and tutorials with open source code available.
• Courses
  • Courses using or teaching ROS.
• Events
  • Past events and materials based on ROS.

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Wiki: Documentation (last edited 2025-02-26 21:48:13 by ChristopheBedard)