ros-navigation/navigation2

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Nav2 is the industry-standard navigation framework for ROS 2, providing perception, path planning, control, localization, and behavior-tree-based autonomy for mobile and surface robots. It is a production-grade, modular system supporting differential, omni, Ackermann, and legged robots, with extensible plugin-based task servers.

Use cases

• navigate a mobile robot autonomously around obstacles
• plan paths and compute motor commands for a ROS 2 robot
• build custom robot behaviors with behavior trees
• add obstacle avoidance to a warehouse robot
• migrate from the ROS 1 navigation stack to ROS 2
• develop custom navigation planner or controller plugins

When to choose

• you are building a mobile robot on ROS 2 and need production-grade navigation
• you need path planning, control, and obstacle avoidance out of the box
• you want a modular, extensible framework with plugin support and professional maintenance

When to avoid

• your robot is not ROS 2 based
• you need navigation for aerial or underwater vehicles rather than mobile/surface robots
• you want a simple one-off path planner without a full autonomy stack

Facets

framework · maturity stable

robotics simulation middleware plugin-system developer-tools robotics autonomous-vehicles simulation cross-platform cpp ros2 navigation nav2 path-planning obstacle-avoidance behavior-trees mobile-robots slam linux docker ros

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