rbq_ros2

ROS 2 message and interface packages for the Rainbow Robotics RBQ quadruped robot.

Install

Once released to the ROS 2 build farm:

sudo apt install ros-humble-rbq-msgs

Until then, build from source:

mkdir -p ~/rbq_ros2_ws/src && cd ~/rbq_ros2_ws/src
git clone https://github.com/RainbowRobotics/rbq_ros2.git
cd ~/rbq_ros2_ws
sudo rosdep init   # first time on this machine only
rosdep update
rosdep install --from-paths src --ignore-src -y
colcon build

Packages

Package	Description
rbq_msgs	Message definitions for the RBQ quadruped robot

More packages (rbq_api, rbq_description, rbq_examples, rbq_rviz_plugins) are planned.

Supported distributions

ROS 2	Ubuntu	Status
Humble Hawksbill	22.04 Jammy	supported

Jazzy and later are planned.

Relationship to the RBQ framework — how this repo is maintained

This is a published, downstream-facing mirror. The canonical source lives in the RBQ framework monorepo, under rbq_sdk/ros2/src/. A one-way sync mirrors each package's whole directory (msg/, CMakeLists.txt, package.xml, and any src/, launch/, urdf/, …) here; it never reads changes back.

Two consequences for contributors:

• The <version> in each package.xml is stamped by the sync, from the framework's single version source (src/rcl/version.txt). Do not hand-edit it — it will be overwritten.
• Any change you make here (to msg/, CMakeLists.txt, package.xml, or package sources) is silently overwritten by the next sync. To propose a change, open an issue instead; it has to land in the framework repo first. (If external contribution volume grows, this repo will be promoted to the source of truth.)

License

Apache-2.0. See LICENSE.