ROS core stacks
ROS core stacks
geometry
Packages for common geometric calculations including the ROS transform library, "tf". Also includes ROS bindings for "bullet" physics engine and "kdl" kinematics/dynamics package.
geometry2
A set of ROS packages for keeping track of coordinate transforms.
geometry_tutorials
ROS geometry_tutorials stack migrated from https://kforge.ros.org/geometry/tutorials/branches
kdl_parser
kdl_parser and kdl_parser_py provide tools to construct a KDL tree from an XML robot representation in URDF.
nodelet_core
Allows one to create "nodelets" -- ROS node-like entities that run within the same process so as to avoid IPC and serialization overhead
pluginlib
Library for loading/unloading plugins in ROS packages during runtime
robot_model
Contains packages for modeling various aspects of robot information, specified in the Xml Robot Description Format (URDF). The core package of this stack is urdf, which parses URDF files, and construc...
robot_state_publisher
Allows you to publish the state of a robot (i.e the position of its base and all joints) via the "tf" transform library