Nebula
- Software
- Perception
- Driver or SDK
Nebula is a universal sensor driver platform for ROS 2, mainly targeting Ethernet-based LiDAR sensors, and is the recommended driver for the Autoware project.
Made by TIER IV, Inc., Japan (checked on github.com/tier4 (opens in a new tab)).
Source on GitHub: github.com/tier4/nebula (opens in a new tab). Facts read at commit efeb812 (opens in a new tab).
Licenses
- Code
- Apache-2.0 (opens in a new tab)
Read by Robotheca from LICENSE (opens in a new tab) (Apache-2.0) at commit efeb812 (opens in a new tab), on 16 Oct 2026.
- Commercial use
- Yes
What it does
- Provides a unified framework for many sensor devices, aiming to be easy to extend to new sensors and interfaces.
- Supports vendor LiDARs including Hesai, Velodyne, Robosense and Continental radars.
- Launches as a ROS 2 node with default parameters for a chosen sensor model via a launch file.
- Optional Agnocast support enables IPC zero-copy for pointcloud and blockage mask outputs on Hesai sensors.
- Vendors can be built selectively with colcon's --packages-up-to flag.
Written by Robotheca from the project's README (opens in a new tab) at commit efeb812.
Getting started
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
- How to start
- The project's website (opens in a new tab)
Maintenance
- Status
- Active: a commit in the last 90 days
- Newest commit
- 15 Oct 2026 on main
- Latest release
- v1.3.1 (15 Oct 2026)
Checked on GitHub on 16 Oct 2026.
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