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.. toctree:: :titlesonly: :maxdepth: 1 :hidden: Installation Releases Tutorials How-To-Guides Concepts Contact The-ROS2-Project API-Docs Related-Projects Glossary Citations
The Robot Operating System (ROS) is a set of software libraries and tools for building robot applications. From drivers and state-of-the-art algorithms to powerful developer tools, ROS has the open source tools you need for your next robotics project.
Since ROS was started in 2007, a lot has changed in the robotics and ROS community. The goal of the ROS 2 project is to adapt to these changes, leveraging what is great about ROS 1 and improving what isn’t.
This site contains the documentation for ROS 2. If you are looking for ROS 1 documentation, check out the ROS wiki.
If you use ROS 2 in your work, please see :doc:`Citations <Citations>` to cite ROS 2.
- :doc:`Installation <Installation>`
- Instructions to set up ROS 2 for the first time
- :doc:`Tutorials <Tutorials>`
- The best place to start for new users!
- Hands-on sample projects that help you build a progression of necessary skills
- :doc:`How-To-Guides`
- Quick answers to your "How do I...?" questions without working through the :doc:`Tutorials <Tutorials>`
- :doc:`Concepts <Concepts>`
- High-level explanations of core ROS 2 concepts covered in the :doc:`Tutorials <Tutorials>`
- :doc:`Contact <Contact>`
- Answers to your questions or a forum to start a discussion
If you're interested in the advancement of the ROS 2 project:
- :doc:`Contributing <The-ROS2-Project/Contributing>`
- Best practices and methodology for contributing to ROS 2, as well as instructions for migrating existing ROS 1 content to ROS 2
- :doc:`Distributions <Releases>`
- Past, present and future ROS 2 distributions
- :doc:`Features Status <The-ROS2-Project/Features>`
- Features in the current release
- :doc:`Feature Ideas <The-ROS2-Project/Feature-Ideas>`
- Ideas for nice-to-have features that are not under active development
- :doc:`Roadmap <The-ROS2-Project/Roadmap>`
- Planned work for ROS 2 development
- :doc:`ROSCon Talks <The-ROS2-Project/ROSCon-Content>`
- Presentations by the community on ROS 2
- :doc:`Project Governance <The-ROS2-Project/Governance>`
- Information about the ROS Technical Steering Committee, Working Groups, and upcoming events
- :doc:`Marketing <The-ROS2-Project/Marketing>`
- Downloadable marketing materials
- ROS Answers (ROS 1, ROS 2)
- Q&A community website, similar to Stack Exchange
- See :ref:`Contact Page <Using ROS Answers>` for more information
- ROS Enhancement Proposals (REPs) (ROS 1, ROS 2)
- Proposals for new designs and conventions
- ROS Discourse (ROS 1, ROS 2)
- Forum for general discussions and announcements for the ROS community
- See the :ref:`Contact Page <Using ROS Discourse>` for more information
- ROS Index (ROS 1, ROS 2)
- Indexed list of all packages (i.e. Python Package Index (PyPI) for ROS packages)
- See which ROS distributions a package supports
- Link to a package's repository, API documentation, or website
- Inspect a package's license, build type, maintainers, status, and dependencies
- Get more info for a package on ROS Answers
- ROS Prerelease (ROS 1)
- Generates commands to emulate the ROS Buildfarm on your local machine
- Currently only shows ROS 1 distributions
- ROS Robots (ROS 1, ROS 2)
- Showcases robots projects from the community
- Instructions on how to contribute a robot
- ROS Wiki (ROS 1)
- ROS 1 documentation and user modifiable content
- Active until at least the last ROS 1 distribution is EOL
- ROS.org (ROS 1, ROS 2)
- ROS 1 and ROS 2 product landing page, with high-level description of ROS and links to other ROS sites
- ROS 2 Docs
- API documentation up to and including Galactic
- ROS 2 Design
- Early design decisions behind ROS 2 development
- New design proposals should be submitted via ROS Enhancement Proposals (REPs)