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 models; the model represents the key characteristics or behaviors of the selected system or process, whereas the ...
. They are typically an end-to-end platform for robotics development and include tools for
visual programming and creating and debugging
robot application
A robot is a machine—especially one programmable by a computer—capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically. A robot can be guided by an external control device, or the control may be embedded within. Robots may be c ...
s. 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
A robotics simulator is a simulator used to create an application for a physical robot without depending on the physical machine, thus saving cost and time. In some case, such applications can be transferred onto a physical robot (or rebuilt) with ...
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, ...
,
free hardware and both free software and hardware.
Suites
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Fedora RoboticsArtiMinds Robot Programming SuiteBrainlab Robotic Suite
See also
* AnyKode Marilou
anyKode Marilou is a modeling and simulation environment for mobile robots, humanoids, articulated arms and parallel robots operating in real-world conditions that respect the laws of physics. This robotics suite is used in research centers and in ...
* ArduPilot
* Autonomous Robot Control (ARC)
* Debian Science
* Evolution Robotics
* 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
* Player Project (formerly the Player/Stage Project or Player/Stage/Gazebo Project)
* Robot software
* Robot operating system
* Simbad robot simulator
* 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 lang ...
* 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, Switz ...
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