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Multi Agent Suite for ROS

  • Software
  • Middleware
  • Tool

A suite of ROS 1 and ROS 2 packages with a graphical interface for discovering, synchronizing, monitoring and managing nodes across multiple hosts. It replaces the FKIE Multimaster.

Made by Fraunhofer FKIE, Germany (checked on github.com/fkie (opens in a new tab)).

Source on GitHub: github.com/fkie/fkie-multi-agent-suite (opens in a new tab). Facts read at commit f803dbe (opens in a new tab).

Licenses

Code
MIT (opens in a new tab)

Read by Robotheca from LICENSE (opens in a new tab) (MIT) at commit f803dbe (opens in a new tab), on 16 Oct 2026.

Commercial use
Yes

What it does

  • Discovers, synchronizes (ROS 1 only) and monitors nodes running on different hosts.
  • Provides a graphical user interface to manage nodes and configuration on local and remote hosts.
  • The GUI talks to a daemon on each host over WebSockets on a port derived from ROS_DOMAIN_ID (and ROS_MASTER_URI_PORT for ROS 1), which must be open in the firewall.
  • Can run as a web server in headless mode, then opened in a browser on port 6275.
  • Offers Debian packages for Ubuntu 20.04, 22.04 and 24.04, plus an AppImage and a build-from-source option.

Written by Robotheca from the project's README (opens in a new tab) at commit f803dbe.

Getting started

Difficulty
Intermediate
Hardware it needs, as the project states it
Ubuntu 20.04, 22.04 or 24.04 with ROS 1 or ROS 2 for the Debian packages; a ROS workspace for source builds.

Maintenance

Status
Active: a commit in the last 90 days
Newest commit
13 Oct 2026 on master
Latest release
5.11.4 (30 Sept 2026)

Checked on GitHub on 16 Oct 2026.

Links

Robots on Robotheca that use it

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.