topic_based_hardware_interfaces
- Software
- Robot arms and industry
- Library
A ROS 2 package that lets ros2_control talk to any hardware driven over ROS topics, for commanding a robot and reading its state.
Made by ros-controls.
Source on GitHub: github.com/ros-controls/topic_based_hardware_interfaces (opens in a new tab). Facts read at commit d5da643 (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 d5da643 (opens in a new tab), on 16 Oct 2026.
- Commercial use
- Yes
What it does
- Integrates ros2_control with systems that use topics to command a robot and publish its state.
- Provides a JointState topic hardware interface for reading joint states over topics.
- Provides a JointCommand topic hardware interface for sending joint commands over topics.
- Includes a Controller Manager topic hardware component.
- Supports ROS 2 Rolling, Lyrical, Kilted and Jazzy; Humble only with a development build of ros2_control.
Written by Robotheca from the project's README (opens in a new tab) at commit d5da643.
Getting started
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
- How to start
- The project's README (opens in a new tab)
Maintenance
- Status
- Active: a commit in the last 90 days
- Newest commit
- 4 Oct 2026 on main
- Latest release
- None published on GitHub
Checked on GitHub on 16 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.
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