Robotics

Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 will enable hobbyists, academics and commercial developers to create robotics applications targeting entertainment, educational, home, commercial, or industrial segments. Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio supports a broad set of robotics platforms by... Platforms: Windows, 2003, Windows Vista, 2008, 7

The MCLA Robotics project comprises a Java based platform for robotics application development. It is being developed by the physics department at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in North Adams, Massachusetts. Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

This library has been developed as part of research at the Spacecraft Robotics Laboratory at the Naval Postgraduate School. The laboratory's director is Professor Marcello Romano. The laboratory's manager is Dr. Riccardo Bevilacqua. LCDR Jason Hall worked on the library during his Doctoral... Platforms: Matlab

The Olin Robotics Blockset for xPC Target is a set of xPC Target drivers for common robotics devices. The supported devices are:Garmin GPS 18-5Hz (Consumer GPS)NAVCOM SF-2050G (Precision GPS)Microstrain 3DM-GX1 (INS)SICK LMS 291-S05 (LIDAR up to 500Kbps, any operation requires Fastcom... Platforms: Matlab

RTSS is intended for modeling and simulation of robotic manipulators in the Scilab/Scicos environment. Inspired by the Robotics Toolbox for MATLAB by Peter Corke, RTSS provides many functions that are useful in the field of robotics. Features . Library of Scilab macros for modelling,... Platforms: *nix

Pyro stands for Python Robotics. The goal of the project is to provide a programming environment for easily exploring advanced topics in artificial intelligence and robotics without having to worry about the low-level details of the underlying hardware. That is not to say that Pyro is just a toy.... Platforms: *nix

This package can be used in robotics, machine control, motion physics, medical science and many more. Requirements: - MATLAB 7.5 or higher - MATLAB's Optimization Toolbox Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, Matlab, BSD Solaris

Darwin2K is a toolkit for simulation and evolutionary design for robotics. Platforms: *nix, C/C++, BSD

Advanced Real-Time Linux (ART-Linux) is a hard real-time kernel developed with robotics applications in mind. Real-Time is accessible from user level and does not require special device drivers. 10 micro-second periodic execution is possible on a PII Platforms: *nix

RobotFlow is a mobile robotics tookit based on FlowDesigner. The visual programming interface provided with FlowDesigner will help people to better visualize & understand what is really happening in the robot's control loops, sensors and actuators. Platforms: *nix

20-sim is an advanced modeling and simulation package for Windows. With 20-sim you can simulate the behavior of dynamic systems, such as electrical, mechanical and hydraulic systems or any combination of these. 20-sim models may use iconic diagrams, bond graphs, block diagrams as well as... Platforms: Windows

OpenCV is released under a BSD license, it is free for both academic and commercial use. It was originally written in C but has a full C++ interface and all new development is in C++. There is also a full Python interface. The library has >2000 optimized algorithms (see figure below). It is used... Platforms: Mac

Simulation Studio is an interactive, 3d robotics and microcontroller simulator for Windows, all in physics enabled virtual world. Studio comes standard with simulation models for the popular BOE-Bot robot from Parallax, Inc. as well as the entire BASIC Stamp 2 series of microcontrollers.Using the... Platforms: Windows

DesignBots is a design environment for robotics, it will function as a 3D game development environment as well, or you can just use it for basic 3D CAD. Linear and rotational motors are supported. You can use as many unmotorized parts as are required in your design as well. You can create... Platforms: Windows

Actor-lab is a parallel, object-orientated control language designed to introduce the ideas of control technology and robotics.Actor-lab was designed to make the teaching of control technology possible in classroom settings where, after a general introduction by the teacher, year 5-7 children... Platforms: Mac

This electric-drive-train-development tool is for electric go-carts, electric scooters, electric motorcycles, radio-controlled cars, BattleBots, robots, and other types of electric vehicles. Select motors, batteries, the gear ratio, and wheel size, then take your toy for a test drive on a virtual... Platforms: Windows

OpenRAVE provides an environment for testing, developing, and deploying motion planning algorithms in real-world robotics applications. The main focus is on simulation and analysis of kinematic and geometric information related to motion planning. OpenRAVE's stand-alone nature allows is to be... Platforms: Windows

Object recognition technology demo applications for Microsoft Windows. The technology supports webcams, surveillance cameras, media files with still images and video, and is able to perform real-time video stream processing. The recognition algorithm is tolerant to object scale, rotation, pose,... Platforms: Windows

BoofCV is an open source Java library for real-time computer vision and robotics applications. Written from scratch for ease of use and high performance, it provides both basic and advanced features needed for creating a computer vision system. Functionality include optimized low level image... Platforms: Mac

MRPT, which is actually short for the Mobile Robot Programming Toolkit was designed as an extensive, cross-platform, and Open Source C++ library. The project is directly aimed at robotics researchers and can help them design and implement algorithms for localization, SLAM, navigation, computer... Platforms: Windows, 2K, XP, Windows Vista, 7, 7x64