NVIDIA ROS 2 Projects

NVIDIA provides packages for the development of AI applications for robotics.

ISAAC ROS Projects

• Isaac ROS Nitros: Isaac Transport for ROS package for hardware-acceleration friendly movement of messages.

• Isaac ROS Compression: Hardware accelerated NITROS packages to compress camera data capture and playback for development of AI models and perception functions, compressing 4x 1080p cameras at 30fps (>120fps total) reducing data footprint by ~10x.

• Isaac ROS DNN Stereo Disparity: DNN Stereo Disparity includes packages for predicting disparity of stereo input.

• Isaac ROS Proximity Segmentation: Hardware-accelerated packages for proximity segmentation.

• Isaac ROS Nvblox : Hardware-accelerated 3D scene reconstruction and Nav2 local costmap provider using nvblox.

• Isaac ROS Object Detection : Deep learning model support for object detection including DetectNet.

• Isaac ROS DNN Inference : This repository provides two NVIDIA GPU-accelerated ROS 2 nodes that perform deep learning inference using custom models. One node uses the TensorRT SDK, while the other uses the Triton SDK.

• Isaac ROS Visual SLAM : This repository provides a ROS 2 package that estimates stereo visual inertial odometry using the Isaac Elbrus GPU-accelerated library.

• Isaac ROS Mission Client : This repository receives state and error updates from ROS and converts them to VDA5050 JSON messages for transmission by the ROS2→MQTT node to Mission Dispatch.

• Isaac ROS Argus Camera : This repository provides monocular and stereo nodes that enable ROS developers to use cameras connected to Jetson platforms over a CSI interface.

• Isaac ROS image_pipeline : This metapackage offers similar functionality as the standard, CPU-based image_pipeline metapackage, but does so by leveraging the Jetson platform’s specialized computer vision hardware.

• Isaac ROS Common : Isaac ROS common utilities for use in conjunction with the Isaac ROS suite of packages.

• Isaac ROS AprilTags : ROS 2 node uses the NVIDIA GPU-accelerated AprilTags library to detect AprilTags in images and publish their poses, ids, and additional metadata.

Additional Projects

• ROS and ROS 2 DockerFiles: Dockerfiles for ROS 2 based on l4t which all you to build your own Docker image.

• ROS / ROS 2 Packages for Accelerated Deep Learning Nodes: Deep learning image recognition, object detection, and semantic segmentation inference nodes and camera/video streaming nodes for ROS/ROS 2 using the jetson-inference library and NVIDIA Hello AI World tutorial.

Simulation Projects

• Isaac Sim Nav2 : In this ROS 2 sample, we are demonstrating Omniverse Isaac Sim integrated with the ROS 2 Nav2 project.

• Isaac Sim Multiple Robot ROS 2 Navigation : In this ROS 2 sample, we are demonstrating Omniverse Isaac Sim integrated with the ROS 2 Nav2 stack to perform simultaneous multiple robot navigation.