Repositories list

• rosdistro

  Public

  ros/rosdistro’s past year of commit activity
  This repo maintains a lists of repositories for each ROS distribution

  Python

  •

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

  •2.8k•1.1k•33•51•Updated Mar 29, 2026Mar 29, 2026

• meta-ros

  Public

  ros/meta-ros’s past year of commit activity
  OpenEmbedded Layers for ROS 1 and ROS 2

  BitBake

  •

  MIT License

  •282•472•81•18•Updated Mar 28, 2026Mar 28, 2026

• pluginlib

  Public

  ros/pluginlib’s past year of commit activity
  Library for loading/unloading plugins in ROS packages during runtime

  C++

  •

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

  •104•65•13•0•Updated Mar 26, 2026Mar 26, 2026

• urdfdom

  Public

  ros/urdfdom’s past year of commit activity
  URDF parser

  C++

  •

  Other

  •150•122•32•25•Updated Mar 25, 2026Mar 25, 2026

• ros_tutorials

  Public

  ros/ros_tutorials’s past year of commit activity
  Code used in tutorials found on ROS wiki

  C++

  •577•913•6•0•Updated Mar 24, 2026Mar 24, 2026

• robot_state_publisher

  Public

  ros/robot_state_publisher’s past year of commit activity
  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++

  •

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

  •182•116•9•2•Updated Mar 24, 2026Mar 24, 2026

• class_loader

  Public

  ros/class_loader’s past year of commit activity
  ROS-independent library for dynamic class (i.e. plugin) introspection and loading from runtime libraries

  C++

  •

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

  •96•44•15•3•Updated Mar 18, 2026Mar 18, 2026

• xacro

  Public

  ros/xacro’s past year of commit activity
  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

  •

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

  •106•115•8•3•Updated Mar 17, 2026Mar 17, 2026

• bond_core

  Public

  ros/bond_core’s past year of commit activity
  Maintains a bond (i.e. heart beat ) between ROS nodes and provides feedback when the bond is broken

  C++

  •72•43•17•0•Updated Mar 17, 2026Mar 17, 2026

• resource_retriever

  Public

  ros/resource_retriever’s past year of commit activity
  Package used to retrieve resources of different kinds, e.g. http://, file://, the ROS specific package://, etc.

  C++

  •

  BSD 3-Clause Clear License

  •43•11•2•0•Updated Mar 16, 2026Mar 16, 2026

• urdf_tutorial

  Public
  Python

  •

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

  •270•289•7•2•Updated Mar 6, 2026Mar 6, 2026

• urdf_launch

  Public
  Launch files for common URDF operations

  Python

  •

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

  •13•41•0•0•Updated Feb 27, 2026Feb 27, 2026

• sdformat_urdf

  Public
  A urdf_parser_plugin using libsdformat to parse SDFormat XML into URDF structures

  C++

  •17•50•3•0•Updated Feb 17, 2026Feb 17, 2026

• solidworks_urdf_exporter

  Public
  SolidWorks to URDF Exporter

  C#

  •

  MIT License

  •127•583•34•1•Updated Feb 14, 2026Feb 14, 2026

• urdfdom_headers

  Public
  Headers for URDF parsers

  C++

  •

  Other

  •95•38•10•10•Updated Feb 9, 2026Feb 9, 2026

• joint_state_publisher

  Public
  http://wiki.ros.org/joint_state_publisher

  Python

  •94•59•9•5•Updated Jan 19, 2026Jan 19, 2026

• urdf_parser_py

  Public
  Standalone URDF parser for Python.

  Python

  •

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

  •57•107•13•8•Updated Dec 18, 2025Dec 18, 2025

• diagnostics

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

  monitoringrosdiagnostics

  monitoringrosdiagnostics

  C++

  •

  Other

  •202•151•27•16•Updated Nov 26, 2025Nov 26, 2025

• kdl_parser

  Public
  kdl_parser provides C++ tools to construct a KDL tree from an XML robot representation in URDF.

  C++

  •

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

  •80•82•3•0•Updated Oct 17, 2025Oct 17, 2025

• urdf_sim_tutorial

  Public
  CMake

  •

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

  •49•92•3•2•Updated Oct 6, 2025Oct 6, 2025

• convex_decomposition

  Public
  C++

  •9•6•2•0•Updated Sep 26, 2025Sep 26, 2025

• angles

  Public
  Python

  •47•67•2•3•Updated Sep 23, 2025Sep 23, 2025

• kdl_parser_py

  Public
  kdl_parser_py provides Python tools to construct a KDL tree from an XML robot representation in URDF.

  Python

  •

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

  •0•0•0•0•Updated Jul 29, 2025Jul 29, 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 i…

  C++

  •55•43•8•3•Updated Jul 20, 2025Jul 20, 2025

• ros_environment

  Public
  CMake

  •

  Apache License 2.0

  •19•2•0•0•Updated Jul 1, 2025Jul 1, 2025

• console_bridge

  Public
  A ROS-independent package for logging that seamlessly pipes into rosconsole/rosout for ROS-dependent packages.

  C++

  •

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

  •72•24•2•0•Updated Jun 13, 2025Jun 13, 2025

• urdf

  Public archive
  Repository for URDF parsing code

  C++

  •48•75•0•0•Updated May 31, 2025May 31, 2025

• std_msgs

  Public archive
  Contains minimal messages of primitive data types and multiarrays. Intended for quick prototyping, not production use.

  C

  •44•39•0•0•Updated May 31, 2025May 31, 2025

• rospack

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

  C++

  •64•14•0•0•Updated May 31, 2025May 31, 2025

• rosconsole_bridge

  Public archive
  Pipes console_bridge output to rosconsole/rosout when console_bridge is used in a ROS-dependent package

  C++

  •21•4•0•0•Updated May 31, 2025May 31, 2025