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tier4 / nebula

A universal LiDAR and radar driver for ROS 2, supporting Hesai, Velodyne, Robosense and Continental sensors.
https://tier4.github.io/nebula/
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Nebula

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Welcome to Nebula, the universal sensor driver

Nebula is a sensor driver platform that is designed to provide a unified framework for as wide a variety of devices as possible. While it primarily targets Ethernet-based LiDAR sensors, it aims to be easily extendable to support new sensors and interfaces. Nebula works with ROS 2 and is the recommended sensor driver for the Autoware project.

Documentation

We recommend you get started with the Nebula Documention. Here you will find information about the background of the project, how to install and use with ROS 2, and also how to add new sensors to the Nebula driver.

Quick start

Nebula builds with ROS 2 Galactic and Humble.

Note

Boost version 1.74.0 or later is required. A manual install may be required in Ubuntu versions earlier than 22.04.

To build Nebula run the following commands in your workspace:

# In workspace
git clone https://github.com/tier4/nebula.git
cd nebula
# Import dependencies
vcs import < build_depends.repos
rosdep install --from-paths . --ignore-src -y -r
# Build Nebula
colcon build --symlink-install --cmake-args -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS=1

To launch Nebula as a ROS 2 node with default parameters for your sensor model:

ros2 launch nebula_ros *sensor_vendor_name*_launch_all_hw.xml sensor_model:=*sensor_model_name*

For example, for a Hesai Pandar40P sensor:

ros2 launch nebula_ros hesai_launch_all_hw.xml sensor_model:=Pandar40P