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Concepts

Conceptual overviews provide relatively high-level, general background information about key aspects of ROS 2.

• Basic Concepts
• Intermediate Concepts
• Advanced Concepts

Related Content

See the ROS 2 citations for more explanation of concepts and citable resources.

For a brief video introduction to ROS 2, see this community contributed content:

• Getting started with ROS Part 1: Nodes, Parameters and Topics

• Getting started with ROS Part 2: Services and Actions