# 📢 ros-controls Joins the OSRA Family of Projects

**URL:** <https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-controls-joins-the-osra-family-of-projects/41983>\
**Category:** ROS General\
**Tags:** wg-ros2-control, osra\
**Created:** [February 11, 2025, 4:59pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-controls-joins-the-osra-family-of-projects/41983 "2025-02-11T16:59:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Katherine\_Scott](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.openrobotics.org/katherine_scott/32/4434_2.png) [@Katherine\_Scott](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/Katherine_Scott)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2025, 4:59pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-controls-joins-the-osra-family-of-projects/41983/1 "2025-02-11T16:59:45Z")

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**Today, we are excited to share that [ros-controls](https://control.ros.org/rolling/index.html) has officially joined the [OSRA](https://osralliance.org/) family as a governed project!** The Open Source Robotics Alliance (OSRA) was created a little less than a year ago with the goal of becoming an umbrella organization for our open source robotics community, and we are excited to bring [ros-controls](https://control.ros.org/rolling/index.html) into the organization as our first outside, community-led open source project. [ros-controls is a collection of packages for real time robot control using ROS 2](https://github.com/ros-controls/ros2_control). ros-controls is used by a number of well-known robotics organizations such as PickNik Robotics, ROS Industrial, and PAL Robotics and by our estimates ros-controls and its related packages were downloaded close to ten millions times in 2024. For over a decade, ros-controls has played a crucial role in the ROS ecosystem, providing a robust framework for real-time robot control. With OSRA’s support, we are excited to expand our capabilities, strengthen our community, and ensure the future of open-source robotics control software.

### What does this mean for ros-controls?

With OSRA’s backing, ros-controls will benefit from:

- ✅ Long-term sustainability – Ensuring continued development and maintenance.
- ✅ Improved governance – A structured, community-driven approach to decision-making.
- ✅ Stronger collaboration – Integration with key robotics projects like ROS, Gazebo, and Open-RMF.
- ✅ Industry-backed support – Greater involvement from OSRA members, including leading robotics companies.

### What does this mean for ros-controls contributors and users?

ros-controls users and contributors probably won’t notice changes to the current development process, but over the next few weeks the following will happen in the background to align the ros-controls project with OSRA’s governance norms:

- The Control WG community group meetings will become official ros-controls Project Management Committee (PMC) meetings.
- The current maintainers, @bmagyar, @christophfroehlich , @destogl and @saikishor will become members of the ros-controls PMC.
- The current maintainer of Gazebo repositories related to ros2\_control, @ahcorde , will become a commiter for the ros-controls project.
- @bmagyar will become the project leader and representative to the OSRA Technical Governance Committee (TGC).
- @destogl will become the ros-controls co-leader and replacement for @bmagyar at TGC meetings.
- The public project charter will be posted shortly - this document will outline clear procedures to becoming a ros-controls commiter and a member of the ros-controls PMC.

#### What’s Next?

We invite developers, researchers, and robotics companies to contribute and be part of this journey. If you’d like to get involved, check out our project at [control.ros.org](http://control.ros.org) or join [our discussions on ROS Discourse](http://discourse.ros.org/tag/ros-control) and [Github](https://github.com/ros-controls/ros2_control).

A huge thank you to our contributors, maintainers, and users who have helped make the ros-controls a success. Your dedication has brought us to this incredible milestone, and we’re looking forward to the next chapter together!

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**Author:** ![Katherine\_Scott](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.openrobotics.org/katherine_scott/32/4434_2.png) [@Katherine\_Scott](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/Katherine_Scott)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2025, 5:07pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-controls-joins-the-osra-family-of-projects/41983/2 "2025-02-11T17:07:06Z")

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**Author:** ![ZhenshengLee](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.openrobotics.org/zhenshenglee/32/10103_2.png) [@ZhenshengLee](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/ZhenshengLee)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2025, 2:19am UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-controls-joins-the-osra-family-of-projects/41983/3 "2025-02-12T02:19:32Z")

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Will moveit2 join the OSRA?

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**Author:** ![davetcoleman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.openrobotics.org/davetcoleman/32/1835_2.png) [@davetcoleman](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/davetcoleman)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2025, 4:46pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/ros-controls-joins-the-osra-family-of-projects/41983/4 "2025-02-18T16:46:18Z")

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Hi @zhenshenglee, thanks for the question. Currently there are no plans for MoveIt2 (or other projects like Nav2) to join the OSRA. More background and context can be seen in this [OSRA post last April](http://discourse.ros.org/t/move-of-nav2-and-moveit-repositories-at-github/37450).

Notably: PickNik is a strong supporter of OSRA and it’s mission, including driving [ROS 2 drivers](https://picknik.ai/hardware-ecosystem/) as the defacto industry standard for robotics hardware communications.