Isaac ROS Benchmark#

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Overview#

Isaac ROS Benchmark builds upon the ros2_benchmark to provide configurations to benchmark Isaac ROS graphs. Performance results that measure Isaac ROS for throughput, latency, and utilization enable robotics developers to make informed decisions when designing real-time robotics applications. The Isaac ROS performance results can be independently verified, as the method, configuration, and data input used for benchmarking are provided.

The ros2_benchmark playback node plug-in, for type adaptation and negotiation, is provided for NITROS, which optimizes the performance of message transport costs through RCL with GPU accelerated graphs of nodes.

The datasets for benchmarking are explicitly not downloaded by default. To pull down the standardized benchmark datasets, refer to the ros2_benchmark Dataset section.

Quickstarts#

Benchmarking#

Please consult here for more details about using Isaac ROS Benchmark.

Packages#

Supported Platforms#

This package is designed and tested to be compatible with ROS 2 Jazzy running on Jetson or an x86_64 system with an NVIDIA GPU.

Platform

Hardware

Software

Storage

Notes

Jetson

Jetson Thor

JetPack 7.0

128+ GB NVMe SSD

For best performance, ensure that power settings are configured appropriately.

x86_64

Ampere or higher NVIDIA GPU Architecture with 8 GB RAM or higher

Ubuntu 24.04

32+ GB disk space available
CUDA 13.0+
NVIDIA Driver 580+

Isaac ROS Environment#

To simplify development, we strongly recommend leveraging the Isaac ROS CLI by following these steps. This streamlines your development environment setup with the correct versions of dependencies on both Jetson and x86_64 platforms.

Note

All Isaac ROS Quickstarts, tutorials, and examples have been designed with the Isaac ROS CLI-managed environment as a prerequisite.

Customize your Dev Environment#

To customize your development environment, refer to this guide.

Updates#

Date

Changes

2025-10-24

Added new benchmarks for Isaac ROS 4.0

2024-12-10

Added new benchmarks

2024-09-26

Updated for Isaac ROS 3.1

2024-05-30

Restructure benchmark scripts into packages

2023-10-18

Added new benchmarks

2023-04-05

Initial release