ROS Index
Repository Summary
| Checkout URI | https://github.com/ros-controls/realtime_tools.git |
| VCS Type | git |
| VCS Version | humble |
| Last Updated | 2025-08-01 |
| Dev Status | MAINTAINED |
| Released | RELEASED |
| Tags | No category tags. |
| Contributing |
Help Wanted (-)
Good First Issues (-) Pull Requests to Review (-) |
Packages
| Name | Version |
|---|---|
| realtime_tools | 2.14.0 |
README
realtime_tools
Contains a set of tools that can be used from a hard realtime thread, without breaking the realtime behavior.
Some documentation can be found at docs.ros.org.
Contributing
As an open-source project, we welcome each contributor, regardless of their background and experience. Pick a PR and review it, or create your own! If you are new to the project, please read the contributing guide for more information on how to get started. We are happy to help you with your first contribution.
Build status
ROS2 Distro | Branch | Build status | Documentation | Package Build
:———: | :—-: | :———-: | :———–: | :—————:
Rolling | master | 
| API |
Kilted |
master | see above
| API |
Jazzy |
jazzy | 
| API |
Humble |
humble | 
| API |
Acknowledgements
The project has received major contributions from companies and institutions listed on control.ros.org
CONTRIBUTING
Repository Summary
| Checkout URI | https://github.com/ros-controls/realtime_tools.git |
| VCS Type | git |
| VCS Version | jazzy |
| Last Updated | 2025-08-01 |
| Dev Status | MAINTAINED |
| Released | RELEASED |
| Tags | No category tags. |
| Contributing |
Help Wanted (-)
Good First Issues (-) Pull Requests to Review (-) |
Packages
| Name | Version |
|---|---|
| realtime_tools | 3.7.0 |
README
realtime_tools
Contains a set of tools that can be used from a hard realtime thread, without breaking the realtime behavior.
Further documentation can be found at docs.ros.org.
Contributing
As an open-source project, we welcome each contributor, regardless of their background and experience. Pick a PR and review it, or create your own! If you are new to the project, please read the contributing guide for more information on how to get started. We are happy to help you with your first contribution.
Build status
ROS2 Distro | Branch | Build status | API Documentation | Package Build
:———: | :—-: | :———-: | :———–: | :—————:
Rolling | master |
| API |
Kilted |
master | see above
| API |
Jazzy |
jazzy |
| API |
Humble |
humble |
| API |
Acknowledgements
The project has received major contributions from companies and institutions listed on control.ros.org
CONTRIBUTING
Repository Summary
| Checkout URI | https://github.com/ros-controls/realtime_tools.git |
| VCS Type | git |
| VCS Version | master |
| Last Updated | 2025-08-01 |
| Dev Status | MAINTAINED |
| Released | RELEASED |
| Tags | No category tags. |
| Contributing |
Help Wanted (-)
Good First Issues (-) Pull Requests to Review (-) |
Packages
| Name | Version |
|---|---|
| realtime_tools | 4.4.0 |
README
realtime_tools
Contains a set of tools that can be used from a hard realtime thread, without breaking the realtime behavior.
Further documentation can be found at docs.ros.org.
Contributing
As an open-source project, we welcome each contributor, regardless of their background and experience. Pick a PR and review it, or create your own! If you are new to the project, please read the contributing guide for more information on how to get started. We are happy to help you with your first contribution.
Build status
ROS2 Distro | Branch | Build status | API Documentation | Package Build
:———: | :—-: | :———-: | :———–: | :—————:
Rolling | master |
| API |
Kilted |
master | see above
| API |
Jazzy |
jazzy |
| API |
Humble |
humble |
| API |
Acknowledgements
The project has received major contributions from companies and institutions listed on control.ros.org
CONTRIBUTING
Repository Summary
| Checkout URI | https://github.com/ros-controls/realtime_tools.git |
| VCS Type | git |
| VCS Version | master |
| Last Updated | 2025-08-01 |
| Dev Status | MAINTAINED |
| Released | RELEASED |
| Tags | No category tags. |
| Contributing |
Help Wanted (-)
Good First Issues (-) Pull Requests to Review (-) |
Packages
| Name | Version |
|---|---|
| realtime_tools | 4.4.0 |
README
realtime_tools
Contains a set of tools that can be used from a hard realtime thread, without breaking the realtime behavior.
Further documentation can be found at docs.ros.org.
Contributing
As an open-source project, we welcome each contributor, regardless of their background and experience. Pick a PR and review it, or create your own! If you are new to the project, please read the contributing guide for more information on how to get started. We are happy to help you with your first contribution.
Build status
ROS2 Distro | Branch | Build status | API Documentation | Package Build
:———: | :—-: | :———-: | :———–: | :—————:
Rolling | master |
| API |
Kilted |
master | see above
| API |
Jazzy |
jazzy |
| API |
Humble |
humble |
| API |
Acknowledgements
The project has received major contributions from companies and institutions listed on control.ros.org
CONTRIBUTING
Repository Summary
| Checkout URI | https://github.com/ros-controls/realtime_tools.git |
| VCS Type | git |
| VCS Version | dashing-devel |
| Last Updated | 2019-09-09 |
| Dev Status | MAINTAINED |
| Released | RELEASED |
| Tags | No category tags. |
| Contributing |
Help Wanted (-)
Good First Issues (-) Pull Requests to Review (-) |
Packages
| Name | Version |
|---|---|
| realtime_tools | 2.0.0 |
README
realtime_tools
See ros_control and realtime_tools documentation on ros.org
Build Status
Publication
If you find this work useful please give credits to the authors by citing:
- S. Chitta, E. Marder-Eppstein, W. Meeussen, V. Pradeep, A. Rodríguez Tsouroukdissian, J. Bohren, D. Coleman, B. Magyar, G. Raiola, M. Lüdtke and E. Fernandez Perdomo “ros_control: A generic and simple control framework for ROS”, The Journal of Open Source Software, 2017. (PDF)
@article{ros_control,
author = {Chitta, Sachin and Marder-Eppstein, Eitan and Meeussen, Wim and Pradeep, Vijay and Rodr{\'i}guez Tsouroukdissian, Adolfo and Bohren, Jonathan and Coleman, David and Magyar, Bence and Raiola, Gennaro and L{\"u}dtke, Mathias and Fern{\'a}ndez Perdomo, Enrique},
title = {ros\_control: A generic and simple control framework for ROS},
journal = {The Journal of Open Source Software},
year = {2017},
doi = {10.21105/joss.00456},
URL = {http://www.theoj.org/joss-papers/joss.00456/10.21105.joss.00456.pdf}
}
CONTRIBUTING
Repository Summary
| Checkout URI | https://github.com/ros-controls/realtime_tools.git |
| VCS Type | git |
| VCS Version | dashing-devel |
| Last Updated | 2019-09-09 |
| Dev Status | MAINTAINED |
| Released | RELEASED |
| Tags | No category tags. |
| Contributing |
Help Wanted (-)
Good First Issues (-) Pull Requests to Review (-) |
Packages
| Name | Version |
|---|---|
| realtime_tools | 2.0.0 |
README
realtime_tools
See ros_control and realtime_tools documentation on ros.org
Build Status
Publication
If you find this work useful please give credits to the authors by citing:
- S. Chitta, E. Marder-Eppstein, W. Meeussen, V. Pradeep, A. Rodríguez Tsouroukdissian, J. Bohren, D. Coleman, B. Magyar, G. Raiola, M. Lüdtke and E. Fernandez Perdomo “ros_control: A generic and simple control framework for ROS”, The Journal of Open Source Software, 2017. (PDF)
@article{ros_control,
author = {Chitta, Sachin and Marder-Eppstein, Eitan and Meeussen, Wim and Pradeep, Vijay and Rodr{\'i}guez Tsouroukdissian, Adolfo and Bohren, Jonathan and Coleman, David and Magyar, Bence and Raiola, Gennaro and L{\"u}dtke, Mathias and Fern{\'a}ndez Perdomo, Enrique},
title = {ros\_control: A generic and simple control framework for ROS},
journal = {The Journal of Open Source Software},
year = {2017},
doi = {10.21105/joss.00456},
URL = {http://www.theoj.org/joss-papers/joss.00456/10.21105.joss.00456.pdf}
}
CONTRIBUTING
Repository Summary
| Checkout URI | https://github.com/ros-controls/realtime_tools.git |
| VCS Type | git |
| VCS Version | foxy-devel |
| Last Updated | 2021-11-03 |
| Dev Status | MAINTAINED |
| Released | RELEASED |
| Tags | No category tags. |
| Contributing |
Help Wanted (-)
Good First Issues (-) Pull Requests to Review (-) |
Packages
| Name | Version |
|---|---|
| realtime_tools | 2.2.0 |
README
realtime_tools
See ros_control and realtime_tools documentation on ros.org
Build Status
Publication
If you find this work useful please give credits to the authors by citing:
- S. Chitta, E. Marder-Eppstein, W. Meeussen, V. Pradeep, A. Rodríguez Tsouroukdissian, J. Bohren, D. Coleman, B. Magyar, G. Raiola, M. Lüdtke and E. Fernandez Perdomo “ros_control: A generic and simple control framework for ROS”, The Journal of Open Source Software, 2017. (PDF)
@article{ros_control,
author = {Chitta, Sachin and Marder-Eppstein, Eitan and Meeussen, Wim and Pradeep, Vijay and Rodr{\'i}guez Tsouroukdissian, Adolfo and Bohren, Jonathan and Coleman, David and Magyar, Bence and Raiola, Gennaro and L{\"u}dtke, Mathias and Fern{\'a}ndez Perdomo, Enrique},
title = {ros\_control: A generic and simple control framework for ROS},
journal = {The Journal of Open Source Software},
year = {2017},
doi = {10.21105/joss.00456},
URL = {http://www.theoj.org/joss-papers/joss.00456/10.21105.joss.00456.pdf}
}
CONTRIBUTING
Repository Summary
| Checkout URI | https://github.com/ros-controls/realtime_tools.git |
| VCS Type | git |
| VCS Version | foxy-devel |
| Last Updated | 2021-11-03 |
| Dev Status | MAINTAINED |
| Released | RELEASED |
| Tags | No category tags. |
| Contributing |
Help Wanted (-)
Good First Issues (-) Pull Requests to Review (-) |
Packages
| Name | Version |
|---|---|
| realtime_tools | 2.2.0 |
README
realtime_tools
See ros_control and realtime_tools documentation on ros.org
Build Status
Publication
If you find this work useful please give credits to the authors by citing:
- S. Chitta, E. Marder-Eppstein, W. Meeussen, V. Pradeep, A. Rodríguez Tsouroukdissian, J. Bohren, D. Coleman, B. Magyar, G. Raiola, M. Lüdtke and E. Fernandez Perdomo “ros_control: A generic and simple control framework for ROS”, The Journal of Open Source Software, 2017. (PDF)
@article{ros_control,
author = {Chitta, Sachin and Marder-Eppstein, Eitan and Meeussen, Wim and Pradeep, Vijay and Rodr{\'i}guez Tsouroukdissian, Adolfo and Bohren, Jonathan and Coleman, David and Magyar, Bence and Raiola, Gennaro and L{\"u}dtke, Mathias and Fern{\'a}ndez Perdomo, Enrique},
title = {ros\_control: A generic and simple control framework for ROS},
journal = {The Journal of Open Source Software},
year = {2017},
doi = {10.21105/joss.00456},
URL = {http://www.theoj.org/joss-papers/joss.00456/10.21105.joss.00456.pdf}
}
CONTRIBUTING
Repository Summary
| Checkout URI | https://github.com/ros-controls/realtime_tools.git |
| VCS Type | git |
| VCS Version | master |
| Last Updated | 2025-08-01 |
| Dev Status | MAINTAINED |
| Released | RELEASED |
| Tags | No category tags. |
| Contributing |
Help Wanted (-)
Good First Issues (-) Pull Requests to Review (-) |
Packages
| Name | Version |
|---|---|
| realtime_tools | 4.4.0 |
README
realtime_tools
Contains a set of tools that can be used from a hard realtime thread, without breaking the realtime behavior.
Further documentation can be found at docs.ros.org.
Contributing
As an open-source project, we welcome each contributor, regardless of their background and experience. Pick a PR and review it, or create your own! If you are new to the project, please read the contributing guide for more information on how to get started. We are happy to help you with your first contribution.
Build status
ROS2 Distro | Branch | Build status | API Documentation | Package Build
:———: | :—-: | :———-: | :———–: | :—————:
Rolling | master |
| API |
Kilted |
master | see above
| API |
Jazzy |
jazzy |
| API |
Humble |
humble |
| API |
Acknowledgements
The project has received major contributions from companies and institutions listed on control.ros.org
CONTRIBUTING
Repository Summary
| Checkout URI | https://github.com/ros-controls/realtime_tools.git |
| VCS Type | git |
| VCS Version | kinetic-devel |
| Last Updated | 2021-03-21 |
| Dev Status | MAINTAINED |
| Released | RELEASED |
| Tags | No category tags. |
| Contributing |
Help Wanted (-)
Good First Issues (-) Pull Requests to Review (-) |
Packages
| Name | Version |
|---|---|
| realtime_tools | 1.11.2 |
README
realtime_tools
See ros_control and realtime_tools documentation on ros.org
Build Status
Publication
If you find this work useful please give credits to the authors by citing:
- S. Chitta, E. Marder-Eppstein, W. Meeussen, V. Pradeep, A. Rodríguez Tsouroukdissian, J. Bohren, D. Coleman, B. Magyar, G. Raiola, M. Lüdtke and E. Fernandez Perdomo “ros_control: A generic and simple control framework for ROS”, The Journal of Open Source Software, 2017. (PDF)
@article{ros_control,
author = {Chitta, Sachin and Marder-Eppstein, Eitan and Meeussen, Wim and Pradeep, Vijay and Rodr{\'i}guez Tsouroukdissian, Adolfo and Bohren, Jonathan and Coleman, David and Magyar, Bence and Raiola, Gennaro and L{\"u}dtke, Mathias and Fern{\'a}ndez Perdomo, Enrique},
title = {ros\_control: A generic and simple control framework for ROS},
journal = {The Journal of Open Source Software},
year = {2017},
doi = {10.21105/joss.00456},
URL = {http://www.theoj.org/joss-papers/joss.00456/10.21105.joss.00456.pdf}
}
CONTRIBUTING
Repository Summary
| Checkout URI | https://github.com/ros-controls/realtime_tools.git |
| VCS Type | git |
| VCS Version | indigo-devel |
| Last Updated | 2015-04-30 |
| Dev Status | MAINTAINED |
| Released | RELEASED |
| Tags | No category tags. |
| Contributing |
Help Wanted (-)
Good First Issues (-) Pull Requests to Review (-) |
Packages
| Name | Version |
|---|---|
| realtime_tools | 1.9.1 |
README
CONTRIBUTING
Repository Summary
| Checkout URI | https://github.com/ros-controls/realtime_tools.git |
| VCS Type | git |
| VCS Version | indigo-devel |
| Last Updated | 2015-04-30 |
| Dev Status | MAINTAINED |
| Released | RELEASED |
| Tags | No category tags. |
| Contributing |
Help Wanted (-)
Good First Issues (-) Pull Requests to Review (-) |
Packages
| Name | Version |
|---|---|
| realtime_tools | 1.9.1 |
README
CONTRIBUTING
Repository Summary
| Checkout URI | https://github.com/ros-controls/realtime_tools.git |
| VCS Type | git |
| VCS Version | hydro-devel |
| Last Updated | 2014-02-07 |
| Dev Status | MAINTAINED |
| Released | RELEASED |
| Tags | No category tags. |
| Contributing |
Help Wanted (-)
Good First Issues (-) Pull Requests to Review (-) |
Packages
| Name | Version |
|---|---|
| realtime_tools | 1.8.3 |
README
CONTRIBUTING
Repository Summary
| Checkout URI | https://github.com/ros-controls/realtime_tools.git |
| VCS Type | git |
| VCS Version | kinetic-devel |
| Last Updated | 2021-03-21 |
| Dev Status | MAINTAINED |
| Released | RELEASED |
| Tags | No category tags. |
| Contributing |
Help Wanted (-)
Good First Issues (-) Pull Requests to Review (-) |
Packages
| Name | Version |
|---|---|
| realtime_tools | 1.11.2 |
README
realtime_tools
See ros_control and realtime_tools documentation on ros.org
Build Status
Publication
If you find this work useful please give credits to the authors by citing:
- S. Chitta, E. Marder-Eppstein, W. Meeussen, V. Pradeep, A. Rodríguez Tsouroukdissian, J. Bohren, D. Coleman, B. Magyar, G. Raiola, M. Lüdtke and E. Fernandez Perdomo “ros_control: A generic and simple control framework for ROS”, The Journal of Open Source Software, 2017. (PDF)
@article{ros_control,
author = {Chitta, Sachin and Marder-Eppstein, Eitan and Meeussen, Wim and Pradeep, Vijay and Rodr{\'i}guez Tsouroukdissian, Adolfo and Bohren, Jonathan and Coleman, David and Magyar, Bence and Raiola, Gennaro and L{\"u}dtke, Mathias and Fern{\'a}ndez Perdomo, Enrique},
title = {ros\_control: A generic and simple control framework for ROS},
journal = {The Journal of Open Source Software},
year = {2017},
doi = {10.21105/joss.00456},
URL = {http://www.theoj.org/joss-papers/joss.00456/10.21105.joss.00456.pdf}
}
CONTRIBUTING
Repository Summary
| Checkout URI | https://github.com/ros-controls/realtime_tools.git |
| VCS Type | git |
| VCS Version | melodic-devel |
| Last Updated | 2020-04-17 |
| Dev Status | MAINTAINED |
| Released | RELEASED |
| Tags | No category tags. |
| Contributing |
Help Wanted (-)
Good First Issues (-) Pull Requests to Review (-) |
Packages
| Name | Version |
|---|---|
| realtime_tools | 1.15.1 |
README
realtime_tools
See ros_control and realtime_tools documentation on ros.org
Build Status
Publication
If you find this work useful please give credits to the authors by citing:
- S. Chitta, E. Marder-Eppstein, W. Meeussen, V. Pradeep, A. Rodríguez Tsouroukdissian, J. Bohren, D. Coleman, B. Magyar, G. Raiola, M. Lüdtke and E. Fernandez Perdomo “ros_control: A generic and simple control framework for ROS”, The Journal of Open Source Software, 2017. (PDF)
@article{ros_control,
author = {Chitta, Sachin and Marder-Eppstein, Eitan and Meeussen, Wim and Pradeep, Vijay and Rodr{\'i}guez Tsouroukdissian, Adolfo and Bohren, Jonathan and Coleman, David and Magyar, Bence and Raiola, Gennaro and L{\"u}dtke, Mathias and Fern{\'a}ndez Perdomo, Enrique},
title = {ros\_control: A generic and simple control framework for ROS},
journal = {The Journal of Open Source Software},
year = {2017},
doi = {10.21105/joss.00456},
URL = {http://www.theoj.org/joss-papers/joss.00456/10.21105.joss.00456.pdf}
}
CONTRIBUTING
Repository Summary
| Checkout URI | https://github.com/ros-controls/realtime_tools.git |
| VCS Type | git |
| VCS Version | melodic-devel |
| Last Updated | 2020-04-17 |
| Dev Status | MAINTAINED |
| Released | RELEASED |
| Tags | No category tags. |
| Contributing |
Help Wanted (-)
Good First Issues (-) Pull Requests to Review (-) |
Packages
| Name | Version |
|---|---|
| realtime_tools | 1.15.1 |
README
realtime_tools
See ros_control and realtime_tools documentation on ros.org
Build Status
Publication
If you find this work useful please give credits to the authors by citing:
- S. Chitta, E. Marder-Eppstein, W. Meeussen, V. Pradeep, A. Rodríguez Tsouroukdissian, J. Bohren, D. Coleman, B. Magyar, G. Raiola, M. Lüdtke and E. Fernandez Perdomo “ros_control: A generic and simple control framework for ROS”, The Journal of Open Source Software, 2017. (PDF)
@article{ros_control,
author = {Chitta, Sachin and Marder-Eppstein, Eitan and Meeussen, Wim and Pradeep, Vijay and Rodr{\'i}guez Tsouroukdissian, Adolfo and Bohren, Jonathan and Coleman, David and Magyar, Bence and Raiola, Gennaro and L{\"u}dtke, Mathias and Fern{\'a}ndez Perdomo, Enrique},
title = {ros\_control: A generic and simple control framework for ROS},
journal = {The Journal of Open Source Software},
year = {2017},
doi = {10.21105/joss.00456},
URL = {http://www.theoj.org/joss-papers/joss.00456/10.21105.joss.00456.pdf}
}