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Nav2

  • Software
  • Navigation and mapping
  • Framework

Nav2 is the ROS 2 navigation framework for moving mobile robots from one pose to another, built from modular servers, plugins and behavior trees.

Source on GitHub: github.com/ros-navigation/navigation2 (opens in a new tab). Facts read at commit 1e1abb8 (opens in a new tab).

Licenses

Code
Apache-2.0 (opens in a new tab) AND BSD-3-Clause (opens in a new tab) AND LGPL-2.1-or-later (opens in a new tab)

Read by Robotheca from LICENSE (opens in a new tab) at commit 1e1abb8 (opens in a new tab), on 30 Oct 2026. A license text Robotheca's reader does not know: a person at Robotheca set it on 5 Nov 2026.

Commercial use
Yes

Copyleft: Modified source must be published.

What it does: Robotheca's summary

  • Provides a navigation stack with planning, control, localization, mapping and recovery components for mobile robots.
  • Uses behavior trees to coordinate navigation tasks and recovery actions.
  • Offers pluggable planner, controller, smoother and behavior plugins that can be swapped via configuration.
  • Includes features such as collision monitoring, docking, following and a loopback simulator.
  • Documentation covers concepts, setup guides, tutorials, configuration and plugin development.
  • Maintained by Open Navigation with sponsor support, and distributed as packages for several ROS 2 distributions.

Written by Robotheca from the project's README (opens in a new tab) at commit 640b6be.

Getting started

Difficulty
Intermediate

Maintenance

Status
Active: a commit in the last 90 days
Newest commit
29 Oct 2026 on main
Latest release
1.5.3 (17 Oct 2026)

Checked on GitHub on 30 Oct 2026.

Links

Robots that can run 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.