# Introduction The Qualcomm^®^ Intelligent Robotics (QIR) SDK for Ubuntu includes components that enable you to develop robotic features on Qualcomm platforms using the Ubuntu OS. This document is applicable to the Ubuntu on Qualcomm IoT platform releases. The QIR SDK provides the following features: - Reference Robot Operating System (ROS) packages to develop robotic applications. - E2E scenario samples to evaluate robotic platforms. - QRB ROS transport Note QRB ROS transport achieves zero-copy transport of ROS messages on Qualcomm robotics platforms. It’s implemented based on [REP 2007](https://www.ros.org/reps/rep-2007.html), which provides interfaces to define methods for serializing custom types and/or using those types in intra-process communication without conversion. This document guides you to use the QIR sample applications for development kits running Ubuntu. It explains how to: - Fetch ROS2 and QIR SDK by scripts - Run sample applications ## Supported development kit | Hardware | Quick start | | --- | --- | | Qualcomm Dragonwing^TM^ RB3 Gen 2 Vision Development Kit | [Quickstart–Ubuntu](https://docs.qualcomm.com/bundle/publicresource/topics/80-90441-1) | | Qualcomm Dragonwing^TM^ IQ-9075 Evaluation Kit | [Quickstart–Ubuntu](https://docs.qualcomm.com/bundle/publicresource/topics/80-90441-252) | ## Architecture The figure shows the overall software architecture of the QIR SDK for Ubuntu.
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**QIR SDK software architecture for Ubuntu** ## Sample applications To help you understand the features, the QIR SDK integrates these sample applications: | Category | Description | | --- | --- | | Platform sample applications | Provides ROS samples for common platform types including OCR, Rplidar, Orbbec Camera, and IMU. | | Robotics sample applications | Provides a robotics simulation platform where you can develop your own robotics applications, such as `simulation-sample-AMR-simple-motion`. | | AI sample applications | Provides AI-related sample applications, such as hand detection and image classification . | Last Published: Apr 22, 2026 [Next Topic Install the QIR SDK](https://docs.qualcomm.com/bundle/publicresource/80-90441-2/topics/2-install-the-qir-sdk.md)