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Citations

If you use ROS 2 in your work please cite the 2022 Science Robotics paper Robot Operating System 2: Design, architecture, and uses in the wild.

S. Macenski, T. Foote, B. Gerkey, C. Lalancette, W. Woodall, “Robot Operating System 2: Design, architecture, and uses in the wild,” Science Robotics vol. 7, May 2022.
@article{doi:10.1126/scirobotics.abm6074,
    author = {Steven Macenski and Tully Foote and Brian Gerkey and Chris Lalancette and William Woodall},
    title = {Robot Operating System 2: Design, architecture, and uses in the wild},
    journal = {Science Robotics},
    volume = {7},
    number = {66},
    pages = {eabm6074},
    year = {2022},
    doi = {10.1126/scirobotics.abm6074},
    URL = {https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/scirobotics.abm6074}
}

If you use ROS 2 Composition in your work, please cite the 2023 IEEE RA-L paper Impact of ROS 2 Node Composition in Robotic Systems.

S. Macenski, A. Soragna, M. Carroll, Z. Ge, “Impact of ROS 2 Node Composition in Robotic Systems”, IEEE Robotics and Autonomous Letters (RA-L), 2023.
@article{doi:10.48550/arXiv.2305.09933,
    author = {Steven Macenski and Alberto Soragna and Michael Carroll and Zhenpeng Ge},
    title = {Impact of ROS 2 Node Composition in Robotic Systems},
    journal = {IEEE Robotics and Autonomous Letters (RA-L)},
    year = {2023},
    doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2305.09933},
    URL = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.09933}
}