About Open Navigation
Our mission is to accelerate robotics commercialization and applied research via the democratization of mobile robotics technologies by providing professional-quality navigation technology and commercial services. We also aim to establish open, community-driven collaborations within and between industry and academia to develop industry standardized references and leading technologies.
Projects We Developed & Maintain
Nav2
The premier mobile robot navigation framework
docs.nav2.org
Exhaustive configuration, tuning, getting started, and tutorials
SLAM Toolbox
State-of-the-art 2D SLAM solution
Opennav Coverage
Complete coverage planning task server and navigation integration
Robot Localization
Multi-sensor fusion for state estimation
rclcpp
Core ROS 2 C++ client library
Spatio-Temporal Voxel Layer
Temporal sparse volumetric perception integration
Non-Persistent Voxel Layer
Non-persisting perception integration
Vision Msgs
AI and detection vision messages
Radar Msgs
Radar messages
Perception PCL
PCL ROS integration
Perception Open3D
Open3D ROS integration
Thank you to our sponsors who support the development of Nav2 and the broader mobile robotics ecosystem.
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Leadership
Steve Macenski
CEO & Chief Navigator
Steve is a seasoned engineering leader and robotics engineer with a decade of experience in robotics. He is an open information, open source, and community advocate. He is a ‘full-stack roboticist’ with significant contributions in planning, optimal control, perception, architecture, localization, tooling, and more. He maintains critical projects such as rclcpp, Nav2, Robot Localization, SLAM Toolbox, Vision and Radar Messages, and more.
He has previously been a long-term member of the ROS 2 Technical Steering Committee (TSC) and the Community Representative of the OSRF Technical Governance Committee (TGC), demonstrating substantial influence in robotics technical development and community standards.
Where We're Based
Open Navigation LLC is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA.
We work with companies worldwide in all timezones and are available for remote and onsite collaboration.
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