clearpath_common

Shared ROS 2 packages for Clearpath Robotics platforms, covering core bringup, controllers, diagnostics, robot descriptions and generator utilities.

Made by Clearpath Robotics.

Licenses

Code: BSD-3-Clause (opens in a new tab)
Read by Robotheca from LICENSE (opens in a new tab) (BSD-3-Clause) at commit 78e3677 (opens in a new tab), on 22 Oct 2026.
Commercial use: Yes

Provides platform bringup, control, diagnostics, and robot description assets used across Clearpath robots.
Includes a common generator that turns a parsed robot.yaml into bash setup, URDF/xacro, discovery server config and SRDF.
Contains a Bluetooth joystick watchdog that monitors HID report rate and publishes a stop flag when link quality drops, PS5 only.
Offers controllers, localization and teleoperation launch files in clearpath_control.
Includes URDF description packages for platforms, sensors, mounts and manipulators.
Changes to the generators are checked against expected output in the separate clearpath_generator_tests repository.

Written by Robotheca from the project's README (opens in a new tab) at commit 78e3677.

Difficulty: Intermediate
Hardware it needs, as the project states it: Ubuntu with ROS 2 installed, plus colcon and standard ROS 2 build tools; a robot setup directory at /etc/clearpath or a custom setup_path for runtime configuration.
How to start: The project's website (opens in a new tab)

Checked on GitHub on 22 Oct 2026.

No robot on Robotheca is linked to it yet. Links come from a robot's robot.yaml, from its dependency files read as text, or from Robotheca's editors.

Robotheca lists software as a reference: nothing is hosted or run here, and every fact links to where it was read.