Robot motion planning

Nav2

Nav2 provides planning, control, recovery and behavior-tree tools for mobile robot navigation in ROS 2.

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What Nav2 is used for in robotics

Nav2 provides planning, control, recovery and behavior-tree tools for mobile robot navigation in ROS 2.

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Compatibility and installation

Developer
Open Navigation project
License
Open source
Operating systems
Linux
ROS support
ROS 2
Languages
C++, Python
Installation method
ROS packages and source builds

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