Open Source Linux Robotics Software

MARIE is a robotic development and integration environment focused on software reusability and exploitation of already available APIs and middlewares used in robotics. Its main purpose is to create a rapid-prototyping approach to robotics developments.

Sming is an asynchronous embedded C/C++ framework with superb performance and multiple network features. Sming is open source, modular and supports multiple architectures including ESP8266 and ESP32. Superb performance and memory usage (Sming compiles to native firmware!) Fast and user-friendly development. Integrated host emulator to assist with developing, testing, and debugging libraries and applications on a PC before uploading them to an actual microcontroller. Built-in powerful wireless modules. Compatible with standard Libraries use popular hardware in a few lines of code. Simple yet powerful hardware API wrappers. HardwareSPI library provides advanced asynchronous SPI device master capability including the use of ESP8266 ‘overlapped’ mode for reduced pin usage and dual/quad I/O support. Modular C++ installable file system interface.

Moved to https://github.com/rdiankov/openrave An open-source, cross-platform, plugin-based robot planning environment for autonomous robotics. Includes services like collision detection, physics, (inverse) kinematics, sensors, robot controls, python bindings, and a network scripting environment.

It's an object-oriented library written in C++ for creating arbitrary kind of neural networks. The user can use the classes provided to create neural network with arbitrary topology and mixed type of neurons. It's very easy add custom neurons.

The Behaviour Control Framework is a generic platform-independent C++ framework that implements a control architecture consisting of a hierarchical network of behaviour layers. These layers each contain behaviours that can inhibit one another and interact to achieve control. A full discussion of the structure and ideas behind this framework can be found in the Doxygen documentation that comes with the release. This documentation is well worth a read before you decide if the library is for you! The structure and implementation of this library focuses on the application of the inhibition-based behaviour control architecture to real-time control loops, but can reasonably be adapted for a wide variety of other artificial intelligence applications. Emphasis has been placed on having very low overhead so as not to hurt overall system performance, while still maintaining ease of use. I welcome all feedback, suggestions and bug reports! Email: pallgeuer[at]ais.uni-bonn.de

Cherokee is a fully extensible and scriptable automation engine for any and all java applets. To make it work for your favorite java applet the most you have to do is write is two classes.

CoPP is an object-oriented framework for developing algorithms for robot path planning. One of of the design goals is to make it easy to make comparisons between various path planning algorithms.

Libraries, documentation, examples & drivers for Eagle Technology South Africa's Data Acquisition products. These include ISA, PCI, PCI Express, USB, Serial & Ethernet. Supported languages will be C/C++, JAVA, Perl, Python.

An Arduino for ESP8266 / ESP32 implementation of Homie, an MQTT convention for the IoT. This branch of Homie for ESP8266 implements Homie 3.0.1 and adds support for ESP32. PlatformIO is an open-source ecosystem for IoT development with the cross-platform build system, library manager and full support for Espressif ESP8266 development. It works on the popular host OS, Mac OS X, Windows, Linux 32/64, Linux ARM (like Raspberry Pi, BeagleBone, CubieBoard). Available in the PlatformIO registry. Pretty straightforward sketches, a simple light for example (TODO: adapt to V3). Cute HTTP API/Web UI/App to remotely send the configuration to the device and get information about it. ESP8266 framework for Homie, a lightweight MQTT convention for the IoT.

IM Bot Framework is an adapter to interface console I/O programs to IM servers. The goal of this program is to allow easy development of bots in any programming language that can read from and write to stdio.

A platform independent framework to remote control Lego Mindstorms NXT from Python. Using PyBluez http://org.csail.mit.edu/pybluez/ for Bluetooth connectivity and wxPython http://www.wxpython.org/ for UI.

NavDrive is a complete hardware and software system for autonomous robots. NavDrive software consists of a framework of runtime configurable components and a mechanism for controlling their instantiation and execution without an operating system.

An open PHP-based framework for the Nabaztag™ (http://www.nabaztag.com/) electronic pet. Due to major changes on the Violet backend, OpenNab can no longer be connected to it but it still can be used as a standalone server to set your bunnies free !

OpenRDK (OPENsource Robot Development Kit) is a modular software framework that can be used by developers in their research in robotics and artificial intelligence. This project has been moved to https://github.com/madmage/openrdk

Moved to code.ros.org

Co-operative Task Scheduler for PIC based software. Written using gpasm / mpasm macros.

Robot Controlling System (RCS) - is a .NET-oriented software group for controlling remote mechanical objects, debuging and programming them by .NET-languages

Robosoccer simulation and test framework at ELTE-IK

The Robotics Library (RL) is a self-contained C++ library for rigid body kinematics and dynamics, motion planning, and control. It covers spatial vector algebra, multibody systems, hardware abstraction, path planning, collision detection, and visualization.

The State Controller Library is a generic platform-independent C++ framework that allows finite state machines and multi-action planning generalisations thereof to be realised. The structure and implementation of this library focuses on the application of finite state machines to real-time control loops, but can be reasonably adapted for virtually any other application, even completely unrelated to control systems. An emphasis has been placed on having very low overhead so as not to hurt overall system performance no matter where this library is used, while still maintaining ease of use. Code size has also been kept to a minimum. Aside from implementing standard finite state machines and multi-action planning state machines, this library can also be used to implement hierarchical state controllers, or any hybrid of the three. Please refer to the extensive documentation for more information. I welcome all feedback, suggestions and bug reports! Email: pallgeuer[at]ais.uni-bonn.de

A software toolkit that implements the CoSy Architecture Schema for developing integrated intelligent robotic systems. The toolkit focuses on supporting on a space of information-processing architectures based on shared working memories.

Maiden-core is a Linux kernel robotics API module, extensible in Erc. The Maiden Project also documents and develops the Maiden architecture for mobile robots, a set of (optional) designs and standards for robots using the Maiden-core API.

The Sick LIDAR Matlab/C++ Toolbox offers stable and easy-to-use C++ drivers for Sick LMS and Sick LD LIDARs. It provides a Matlab Mex interface for streaming LIDAR returns directly into Matlab. Also included are config utilities, examples, and tutorials.

WURDE is middleware for robotics application development. It is designed to be maximally simple to develop in and easy to add support for alternate communications protocols. It includes a module management system.

C library for robot creators using certain AVR microcontrollers with support for 3rd party hardware boards for various sensors and motor controllers. Comprehensive PDF manual included in the download. Version 2 code stream - requires that projects are created using Project Designer from my web site. If your board isn't listed in Project Designer then look at Board Designer on my web-site to create your own custom board - or if its a commercial board then let me know and, with permission, I will add your design to the release. Version 1 code stream - requires you to do everything by hand and will be discontinued in the near future.