Live research index — updated weekly
An open, continuously updated index of every research paper built on the Robot Operating System — classified across contribution type, research domain, application field, and 139 topic labels. Companion dataset to “ROS 2 in a Nutshell: A Survey”, ACM Computing Surveys.
Every paper is classified along four independent dimensions — what it contributes, which robotics problem it addresses, where it deploys, and which techniques it uses. Click anything to filter the papers below, or see the full taxonomy figure from the paper.
How each ROS 2 paper contributes — an application, work on ROS itself, or an ecosystem artifact.
Core / ecosystem subtypesWhere application papers deploy: industry vertical and robot platform.
Application fields Robot platformsCross-domain technique tags — 139 labels applied independently of the architectural classification.
The functional robotics-stack domain each paper addresses — four domains, expanded below.
Filter by title, year, ROS version, taxonomy, deployment context, or any of the 139 topic labels. Click a row for the abstract and full metadata.
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ROS research stands on a stack of simulators, planners, middleware, and tooling — Gazebo, Nav2, MoveIt 2, Isaac, CARLA, micro-ROS and hundreds more. We track the packages the literature builds with, and how that ecosystem evolved.
