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trimble_driver_ros

  • Software
  • Navigation and mapping
  • Driver or SDK

A ROS package that connects to Trimble GNSS and inertial navigation products over TCP, parses their GSOF output, and publishes it as ROS messages and transforms.

Made by Trimble.

Source on GitHub: github.com/trimble-oss/trimble_driver_ros (opens in a new tab). Facts read at commit e95029f (opens in a new tab).

Licenses

Code
BSD-2-Clause (opens in a new tab)

Read by Robotheca from LICENSE (opens in a new tab) (BSD-2-Clause) at commit e95029f (opens in a new tab), on 16 Oct 2026.

Commercial use
Yes

What it does

  • Reads Trimble General Serial Output Format (GSOF) data from a device's TCP port and converts it to ROS format.
  • Publishes a standard odometry topic in a local tangent plane and a NavSatFix topic with satellite fix data.
  • Publishes many GSOF messages as ROS topics, created only when the matching message is first received.
  • Optionally publishes ROS transforms, with the parent frame set from the first latitude-longitude-altitude data.
  • Provides services to get, set, and reset the origin of the local tangent plane.
  • Tested with Trimble Applanix products (APX, POS LVX, AP+ Air and Land) and Trimble OEM BDXXX and BXXXX receivers.

Written by Robotheca from the project's README (opens in a new tab) at commit e95029f.

Getting started

Difficulty
Intermediate

Maintenance

Status
Active: a commit in the last 90 days
Newest commit
21 Aug 2026 on lyrical
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.

Robotheca lists software as a reference: nothing is hosted or run here, and every fact links to where it was read.