Isaac ROS Common#

Overview#

The Isaac ROS Common repository contains an array of essential packages for building, testing, and using Isaac ROS.

For solutions to known issues, see the Troubleshooting section.

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	Support for ROS 2 Jazzy, moved Docker dev container functionality to Isaac ROS CLI
2024-12-10	Refactored Dockerfiles
2024-09-26	Updated for Isaac ROS 3.1
2024-05-30	Update to be compatible with JetPack 6.0
2023-10-18	Updated for Isaac ROS 2.0.0
2023-05-25	Refreshed ROS 2 Humble
2023-04-05	Experimental support for WSL2, merged image keys `humble` and `nav2` into `ros2_humble`
2022-10-19	Minor updates and bugfixes
2022-08-31	Update to be compatible with JetPack 5.0.2
2022-06-30	Support ROS 2 Humble and miscellaneous bug fixes.
2022-06-16	Update `run_dev.sh` and removed `isaac_ros_nvengine`
2021-10-20	Migrated to NVIDIA-ISAAC-ROS, added `isaac_ros_nvengine` and `isaac_ros_nvengine_interfaces` packages
2021-08-11	Initial release to NVIDIA-AI-IOT