Welcome to the Slicer ROS2 documentation!

This module is designed to enable direct communication between ROS 2 and 3D Slicer. You can find more details regarding this module in Bridging 3D Slicer and ROS2 for Image-Guided Robotic Interventions .

This is an early prototype and we hope to add more features soon.

Contents:

• Features
• Getting Started
  • Pre-requisites
  • Compilation
• Starting a ROS robot_state_publisher
  • Sensable Phantom Omni aka Geomagic/3DS Touch
  • dVRK PSM
  • Cobot
• Using the Slicer ROS 2 module
• Known Limitations

Useful Links

• Source code: https://github.com/rosmed/slicer_ros2_module/