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Citations

If you use ROS 2 in your work please cite the 2022 Science Robotics paper Robot Operating System 2: Design, architecture, and uses in the wild.

  1. Macenski, T. Foote, B. Gerkey, C. Lalancette, W. Woodall, “Robot Operating System 2: Design, architecture, and uses in the wild,” Science Robotics vol. 7, May 2022.

@article{
    doi:10.1126/scirobotics.abm6074,
    author = {Steven Macenski  and Tully Foote  and Brian Gerkey  and Chris Lalancette  and William Woodall },
    title = {Robot Operating System 2: Design, architecture, and uses in the wild},
    journal = {Science Robotics},
    volume = {7},
    number = {66},
    pages = {eabm6074},
    year = {2022},
    doi = {10.1126/scirobotics.abm6074},
    URL = {https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/scirobotics.abm6074}
}