# ros-planning/navigation

ROS Navigation stack.  Code for finding where the robot is and how it can get somewhere else.

Repository: https://github.com/ros-planning/navigation
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/navigation
Language: C++
License Family: other
Topics: ros, navigation, robotics
Archived: true
Last push: 2025-06-05T03:38:59+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 25, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5042, "days_push": 454, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2660, forks 1834 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:07.471884+00:00)

## What it is
The ROS Navigation Stack, a 2D navigation system for mobile robots that consumes odometry, sensor streams, and a goal pose, and outputs safe velocity commands for a mobile base. It provides localization and path planning capabilities as a core component of the Robot Operating System ecosystem.

## Use cases
- navigate a mobile robot to a goal pose
- localize a robot using odometry and sensor data
- plan collision-free paths for a wheeled robot
- send velocity commands to a robot base
- build a 2D costmap from laser scans
- autonomous indoor robot navigation

## When to choose
- you are building a mobile robot on ROS and need localization and path planning
- you want a battle-tested 2D navigation stack with community support
- your robot uses standard ROS sensor streams like laser scans and odometry

## When to avoid
- you need 3D navigation or aerial/legged robot planning
- you are not using ROS or the robot runs on non-Linux platforms
- you need a fully supported commercial license, since the repo has no explicit license

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: stable
- function: robotics, simulation, middleware
- domain: robotics, autonomous-vehicles, developer-tools
- platform: cpp
- tags: ros, navigation-stack, path-planning, localization, mobile-robots, slam, costmap, move-base, linux

## Member repositories
- ros-planning/navigation (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:07.471884+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:18:24.126099+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/ros-planning/navigation (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:07.471884+00:00, sha ebce8223a359)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.