A robotics suite is a visual environment for robot control and
simulation
A simulation is the imitation of the operation of a real-world process or system over time. Simulations require the use of Conceptual model, models; the model represents the key characteristics or behaviors of the selected system or proc ...
. They are typically an end-to-end platform for robotics development and include tools for
visual programming
In computing, a visual programming language (visual programming system, VPL, or, VPS) is any programming language that lets users create programs by manipulating program elements ''graphically'' rather than by specifying them ''textually''. A VP ...
and creating and debugging
robot applications. Developers can often interact with robots through
web-based or visual interfaces.
One objective of a robotics suite is to support a variety of different robot platforms through a common programming interface. The key point about a robotics suite is that the same code will run either with a
simulated robot or the corresponding real robot without modification.
Some robotic suites are based in
free software
Free software or libre software is computer software distributed under terms that allow users to run the software for any purpose as well as to study, change, and distribute it and any adapted versions. Free software is a matter of liberty, no ...
,
free hardware
Open-source hardware (OSH) consists of physical artifacts of technology designed and offered by the open-design movement. Both free and open-source software (FOSS) and open-source hardware are created by this open-source culture movement and ...
and both free software and hardware.
Suites
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Fedora RoboticsArtiMinds Robot Programming SuiteBrainlab Robotic Suite
See also
* AnyKode Marilou
* ArduPilot
ArduPilot is an open source, unmanned vehicle Autopilot Software Suite, capable of controlling autonomous:
*Multirotor drones
*Fixed-wing and VTOL aircraft
*Helicopters
*Ground rovers
*Boats
* Submarines
*Antenna trackers
ArduPilot was original ...
* Autonomous Robot Control (ARC)
In developmental psychology and moral, political, and bioethical philosophy, autonomy, from , ''autonomos'', from αὐτο- ''auto-'' "self" and νόμος ''nomos'', "law", hence when combined understood to mean "one who gives oneself one's ...
* Debian Science
A Debian Pure Blend is a project completely inside of Debian targeting a server or a desktop installation in very broad and general terms.
A Debian Pure Blend aims to cover interests of specialised users, who might be children, lawyers, medical st ...
* Evolution Robotics
Evolution Robotics was an American technological company based in Pasadena, California. It specialized in robotics technologies with their product range covering computer vision, localization and autonomous navigation.
Evolution Robotics coope ...
* Lego Mindstorms
Lego Mindstorms is a hardware and software structure which develops programmable robots based on Lego building blocks. Each version includes computer Lego bricks, a set of modular sensors and motors, and Lego parts from the Technic line to ...
* Microsoft Robotics Studio
Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio (Microsoft RDS, MRDS) is a discontinued Windows-based environment for robot control and simulation that was aimed at academic, hobbyist, and commercial developers and handled a wide variety of robot hardware. I ...
* Player Project
The Player Project (formerly the Player/Stage Project) is a project to create free software for research into robotics and sensor systems. Its components include the ''Player'' network server and the ''Stage'' robot platform simulators. Although ...
(formerly the Player/Stage Project or Player/Stage/Gazebo Project)
* Robot software Robot software is the set of coded commands or instructions that tell a mechanical device and electronic system, known together as a robot, what tasks to perform. Robot software is used to perform autonomous tasks. Many software systems and framew ...
* Robot operating system
Robot Operating System (ROS or ros) is an open-source robotics middleware suite. Although ROS is not an operating system (OS) but a set of software frameworks for robot software development, it provides services designed for a heterogeneous comp ...
* Simbad robot simulator
Simbad robot simulator is an open-source cross-platform software simulator used to develop robotics and artificial intelligence applications. The Simbad project started in 2005, initially developed by Dr. Louis Hugues and is widely used for edu ...
* URBI
Urbi is an open-source cross-platform software platform in C++ used to develop applications for robotics and complex systems. Urbi is based on the UObject distributed C++ component architecture. It also includes the urbiscript orchestration langu ...
* Webots
Webots is a free and open-source 3D robot simulator used in industry, education and research.
The Webots project started in 1996, initially developed by Dr. Olivier Michel at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ( EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzer ...
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