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off_highway_sensor_drivers

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A set of ROS drivers for Bosch off-highway sensor systems, including Ethernet-based premium radars and CAN-based radar and ultrasonic sensors.

Made by Bosch Engineering GmbH.

Source on GitHub: github.com/bosch-engineering/off_highway_sensor_drivers (opens in a new tab). Facts read at commit e17426f (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 e17426f (opens in a new tab), on 22 Oct 2026.

Commercial use
Yes

What it does

  • Metapackage bundling drivers for Bosch off-highway sensors under ROS.
  • Ethernet-based drivers for the Bosch Radar Off-Highway Premium and a legacy Premium Radar Sample variant.
  • CAN-based receiver and sender nodes for the general purpose radar, off-highway radar and ultrasonic sensor system.
  • Converts CAN (FD) frames into ROS messages and back, using can_msgs or socketcan_msgs interfaces.
  • Sensor packages do not include a CAN-to-ROS driver; a separate SocketCAN bridge such as ros2_socketcan handles that.
  • Provides optional logging of CAN processing cycle times to check hardware capacity against CAN load.

Written by Robotheca from the project's README (opens in a new tab) at commit e17426f.

Getting started

Difficulty
Advanced
Hardware it needs, as the project states it
The CAN-based sensors were tested in a 500 kBd CAN configuration. No computer or operating system requirements are stated.

Maintenance

Status
Maintained: a commit in the last 12 months
Newest commit
29 Apr 2026 on rolling-devel
Latest release
None published on GitHub

Checked on GitHub on 22 Oct 2026.

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