# Plankton: open source simulator for maritime robotics researchers compatible with ROS 2

**URL:** <https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/plankton-open-source-simulator-for-maritime-robotics-researchers-compatible-with-ros-2/16616>\
**Category:** Marine Robotics\
**Tags:** ros2\
**Created:** [September 30, 2020, 9:09pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/plankton-open-source-simulator-for-maritime-robotics-researchers-compatible-with-ros-2/16616 "2020-09-30T21:09:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Loic](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.openrobotics.org/loic/32/6904_2.png) [@Loic](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/Loic)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2020, 9:09pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/plankton-open-source-simulator-for-maritime-robotics-researchers-compatible-with-ros-2/16616/1 "2020-09-30T21:09:44Z")

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Hi everyone,

I just wanted to announce that we started in June 2020 a project of open source simulator dedicated to maritime robotics researchers. We call this simulator [Plankton](https://github.com/Liquid-ai/Plankton).

And we are happy to share that we released a beta version of Plankton yesterday!

This first step has involved making the famous [UUV\_Simulator](https://github.com/uuvsimulator/uuv_simulator) compatible with ROS 2 (Eloquent, and soon Foxy). The next step will focus on performance and visual fidelity improvements, for a new release by the end of the year.

Any feedback on this project are very appreciated 🙂