What is ROS 2? Understanding the Robotics Middleware Framework

ROS 2 is a powerful general purpose robotics library that can be used with the PX4 Autopilot to create powerful drone applications.

ROS benefits from an active ecosystem of developers solving common robotics problems, and access to other software libraries written for Linux.

Without getting too technical here, ROS 2 provides a deep integration with PX4.

Our DroneOS platform provides a ROS 2 / PX4 development framework out of the box.

Deep Integration with PX4

According to PX4 documentation: "ROS 2 enables a very deep integration with PX4, to the extent that you can create flight modes in ROS 2 that are indistinguishable from internal PX4 modes, and directly read from and write to internal uORB topics at high rate. It is recommended (in particular) for control and communication from a companion computer where low latency is important, when leveraging existing libraries from Linux, or when writing new high level flight modes."

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