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:

• 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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