Documentation - ROS Wiki
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.
Overview
Added
March 17, 2026
Subject & domain
computer-science-advanced · robotics
Grade range
Grade 9 (Freshman)–Grade 12 (Senior)
Page kind
Wiki
Introduction
ROS Documentation Overview
- Core Functionality: ROS (Robot Operating System) is an open-source (BSD licensed) framework providing hardware abstraction, device drivers, libraries, visualizers, message-passing, and package management for robot application development.
- Getting Started: The documentation provides resources for installation, conceptual overviews, client libraries, and hands-on tutorials.
- Community & Support: Includes guides for community involvement, repository submission, troubleshooting, and quality assurance standards for ROS-based systems.
- Software Ecosystem:
- Access to various release distributions.
- A repository of over 2,000 software libraries.
- Language-specific and topic-based APIs.
- Standardized tools for software development and debugging.
- Hardware Support: Documentation for compatible robots, sensor drivers, and motor controller drivers.
- Educational Resources: Access to academic papers, books with open-source code, university-level courses, and archives of past ROS-related events.
- Global Accessibility: The documentation is available in multiple languages and hosted across several international mirrors.
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