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Glossary

  • ROS 2: Robot Operating System 2, middleware for robotics.
  • URDF: Unified Robot Description Format — XML format for robot models.
  • Xacro: XML macro language for generating URDFs.
  • DDS: Data Distribution Service — the communication layer used by ROS 2.
  • VLA: Vision-Language-Action — multimodal robotics architecture.
  • Sim-to-Real: Transferring models/controllers trained in simulation to physical robots.
  • Jetson: NVIDIA family of embedded devices for edge AI.