realsense-ros is the official ROS and ROS 2 wrapper for Intel RealSense cameras. It enables publishing camera data (depth, color, IMU) within the ROS ecosystem.
The package uses the librealsense library (RealSense SDK 2.0) as its technical foundation. It is commonly used in robotic integrations involving depth cameras such as the Intel RealSense D435i.
Intel RealSense hardware and software manufacturer.
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Middleware
β¦ FeaturedMiddleware is a software layer that mediates between applications, services, sensors, drivers, and execution layers. In robotics, middleware is typically responsible for inter-process communication, message passing, hardware abstraction, and module integration within a single system. The most widely used robotics middleware is ROS (Robot Operating System), which provides a publish-subscribe message bus, service calls, and a rich ecosystem of packages.
Perception Stack
A Perception Stack encompasses the software layers that process data from cameras, LiDARs, IMUs, microphones, and other sensors in order to recognise the surrounding environment, perform localisation, detect and track objects, and interpret the scene. It is typically the first processing stage in an autonomous robot's data pipeline, feeding its outputs to planning and control stacks.
Developer Tool
A Developer Tool is software designed to support the development workflow, including configuration, debugging, testing, monitoring, validation, and integration of robotic and embedded systems. Examples include IDE plugins, visual debuggers, log analysers, hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) test harnesses, and code-generation utilities specific to robotics platforms.
Perception
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