Related Projects
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Gazebo
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**Gazebo** `(gazebosim.org) <http://gazebosim.org/>`_ and its predecessor Gazebo Classic are the first open source choice for 3D physics simulation of ROS-based robots.

Large Community Projects
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Large community projects involve multiple developers from all over the globe and are typically backed by a dedicated working group (cf. :doc:`The-ROS2-Project/Governance`).

* **ros2_control** `(control.ros.org) <https://control.ros.org/>`_: Flexible framework for real-time control of robots implemented with ROS 2.
* **Navigation2** `(nav2.org) <https://nav2.org/>`_: Comprehensive and flexible navigation stack for mobile robots using ROS 2.
* **MoveIt** `(moveit.ai) <https://moveit.ai/>`_: A rich platform for building manipulation applications featuring advanced kinematics, motion planning, control, collision checking, and much more.
* **micro-ROS** `(micro.ros.org) <https://micro.ros.org/>`_: A platform for putting ROS 2 onto microcontrollers, starting at less than 100 kB of RAM.

Further Community Projects
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The global ROS community develops and maintains hundreds of further packages on top of the core ROS 2 stack.
Some of them come with their own websites for documentation.
Your best entry point to discover these works is the **ROS Index** `(index.ros.org) <https://index.ros.org/packages/>`_.

*Hint for developers:* If you maintain a ``README.md`` file in the root of your package folder (which is not necessarily the root of your repository), this file is rendered into the overview page of your package at `index.ros.org <https://index.ros.org/packages/>`_.
The file may be used for documenting your package and supersedes the package documentation pages in the ROS Wiki from ROS 1.
See the `fmi_adapter package <https://index.ros.org/p/fmi_adapter/github-boschresearch-fmi_adapter/#foxy>`_ as an example.

Company-driven Projects
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   Related-Projects/Intel-ROS2-Projects
   Related-Projects/Nvidia-ROS2-Projects