transport_drivers
- Software
- Middleware
- Driver or SDK
A set of ROS 2 drivers for UDP and serial transport, built mostly on the standalone ASIO library. It also includes a generic IO context for networking applications.
Made by ROS device drivers.
Source on GitHub: github.com/ros-drivers/transport_drivers (opens in a new tab). Facts read at commit 0af5988 (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 0af5988 (opens in a new tab), on 16 Oct 2026.
- Commercial use
- Yes
What it does
- Provides a UDP driver package with receiver, sender and combined bridge nodes that send and receive UDP data.
- Provides a serial driver package with a combined bridge node for receiving and sending serial data.
- Includes a UDP driver library and a serial driver library that have no ROS 2 dependencies and can be used elsewhere.
- Offers an IO Context library for writing synchronous and asynchronous networking applications.
- Built with colcon after cloning into a workspace and installing dependencies with rosdep; example UDP params file is provided.
- Ships unit tests for every package, run with colcon test.
Written by Robotheca from the project's README (opens in a new tab) at commit 0af5988.
Getting started
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
- How to start
- The project's README (opens in a new tab)
Maintenance
- Status
- Maintained: a commit in the last 12 months
- Newest commit
- 2 Mar 2026 on main
- Latest release
- None published on GitHub
Checked on GitHub on 16 Oct 2026.
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