ROS core stacks

This repo maintains a lists of repositories for each ROS distribution

A set of ROS packages for keeping track of coordinate transforms.

URDF parser

ROS-independent library for dynamic class (i.e. plugin) introspection and loading from runtime libraries

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

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

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.

Headers for URDF parsers

kdl_parser and kdl_parser_py provide tools to construct a KDL tree from an XML robot representation in URDF.

Gentoo Overlay for ROS packages

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

ROS communications-related packages, including core client libraries (roscpp, rospy, roslisp) and graph introspection tools (rostopic, rosnode, rosservice, rosparam).

Provides a standardized interface for interfacing with preemptable tasks. Examples of this include moving the base to a target location, performing a laser scan and returning the resulting point cloud, detecting the handle of a door, etc.

Commonly used messages in ROS. Includes messages for actions (actionlib_msgs), diagnostics (diagnostic_msgs), geometric primitives (geometry_msgs), robot navigation (nav_msgs), and common sensors (sensor_msgs), such as laser range finders, cameras, point clouds.

ros distribution sandbox

http://wiki.ros.org/joint_state_publisher

Packages for common geometric calculations including the ROS transform library, "tf". Also includes ROS bindings for "bullet" physics engine and "kdl" kinematics/dynamics package.

A CMake-based build system that is used to build all packages in ROS.

Package used to retrieve resources of different kinds, e.g. http://, file://, the ROS specific package://, etc.

genpy

Library for loading/unloading plugins in ROS packages during runtime

Clone of the old roslisp_common SVN repo from code.ros.org.

Client library for writing ROS nodes in idiomatic Common Lisp

Maintains a bond (i.e. heart beat ) between ROS nodes and provides feedback when the bond is broken

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