Attention

As of June 30, 2025, the Isaac ROS Buildfarm for Isaac ROS 2.1 on Ubuntu 20.04 Focal is no longer supported.

Due to an isolated infrastructure event, all ROS 2 Humble Debian packages that were previously built for Ubuntu 20.04 are no longer available in the Isaac Apt Repository. All artifacts for Isaac ROS 3.0 and later are built and maintained with a more robust pipeline.

Users are encouraged to migrate to the latest version of Isaac ROS. The source code for Isaac ROS 2.1 continues to be available on the release-2.1 branches of the Isaac ROS GitHub repositories.

The original documentation for Isaac ROS 2.1 is preserved below.

RealSense Data Recording for Nvblox

A custom launch file is provided to record RealSense data for playing back with nvblox.

Record ROS Bag

To record RealSense data for nvblox:

  1. Make sure that all RealSense Dependencies are met.

  2. Connect the camera, start the Docker container and source the workspace as explained in Static Reconstruction with RealSense.

  3. Start recording:

    ros2 launch nvblox_examples_bringup record_realsense.launch.py

  4. Stop the recording when done.

Start Nvblox from ROS Bag

  1. Setup your workspace for the RealSense. For example, if you want to run static, human, or dynamic reconstruction.

  2. Inside the sourced ROS Docker container start nvblox from a bag:

    ros2 launch nvblox_examples_bringup <launch_file_name_of_example>.launch.py from_bag:=True bag_path:=<path_to_recorded_bag>