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Roadmap
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This page describes planned work for ROS 2. The set of planned features and development efforts should provide insight into the overall direction of ROS 2. If you would like to see other features on the roadmap, please get in touch with us at info@openrobotics.org.
Humble Roadmap
Humble Hawksbill is the ROS 2 release expected in May 2022. See release for a detailed timeline.
The items in the roadmap below are the major features being worked on by the ROS 2 community. The “Size” is an estimated size of the task, where Small means person-days to complete, Medium means person-weeks to complete, and Large means person-months to complete.
If you are working on a feature for ROS 2 Humble and would like to have it listed, please open a pull request to ROS 2 Documentation. If you’d like to take on one of these tasks, please get in touch with us.
Task |
Size |
Owner |
Expected Completion |
|---|---|---|---|
Identify if messages have changed over time |
Large |
Apex.AI |
|
Rosbag2 playback controlled by /clock sim time |
Small |
AWS |
Q3 2021 |
Rosbag2 “Snapshot mode” |
Medium |
AWS |
Q3 2021 |
Interface definitions: get exact msg/srv/action definitions on the wire at runtime |
Large |
AWS / Foxglove |
Q1 2022 |
Multi-threaded Executor for rclc |
Medium |
Bosch |
1st quarter 2022 |
Configurable Executor thread priorities for rclcpp |
Medium |
Bosch |
1st quarter 2022 |
Various small improvements to Diagnostics |
Small |
Bosch |
1st quarter 2022 |
Performance improvements: Implement events executor in rclcpp |
Large |
iRobot |
4th quarter 2021 |
Performance improvements: Improve intra-process optimization and loaned message APIs |
Medium |
iRobot |
4th quarter 2021 |
Developer experience: Better integration of ROS 2 repos with package managers and documentation for building/running ROS 2 applications. |
Large |
iRobot |
2th quarter 2022 |
Develop a system level QoS/network debugging tool |
Large |
Open Robotics |
|
Documentation: Add Python API support to rosdoc2 |
Medium |
Open Robotics |
4th quarter 2021 |
Documentation: Support inter-package linking for rosdoc2 buildfarm jobs |
Small |
Open Robotics |
1st quarter 2022 |
Documentation: Upload C++ API documentation for core packages to docs site |
Medium |
Open Robotics |
4th quarter 2021 |
Humble Release |
Large |
Open Robotics |
2nd quarter 2022 |
Improve service and action reliability for frequencies greater than 10Hz |
Medium |
Open Robotics |
1st quarter 2022 |
Improve RViz2 stability |
Medium |
Open Robotics |
4th quarter 2021 |
Middleware: Default middleware selection |
Medium |
Open Robotics |
Complete |
Middleware: Report on feasibility of using Zenoh as an RMW |
Medium |
Open Robotics |
Complete |
Overlays work to override any package in a dependency tree |
Large |
Open Robotics |
2nd quarter 2022 |
Revamp launch testing |
Large |
Open Robotics |
Complete |
Filter topic messages by content in rclcpp |
Large |
Sony |
1st quarter 2022 |
Wait for an acknowledgment from a reliable publisher in rclcpp and rclpy |
Small |
Sony |
4th quarter 2021 |
Additional project-specific roadmaps can be found in the links below:
Planned releases
Please see the Distributions page for the timeline of and information about future distributions.
Contributing to ROS 2
Looking for something to work on, or just want to help out? Here are a few resources to get you going.
The Contributing guide describes how to make a contribution to ROS 2.
Check out the list of Feature Ideas for inspiration.
For more information on the design of ROS 2 please see design.ros2.org.
The core code for ROS 2 is in the ros2 GitHub organization.
The Discourse forum/mailing list for discussing ROS 2 design is ng-ros.
Questions should be asked on ROS answers, make sure to include at least the
ros2tag and the rosdistro version you are running, e.g.galactic.