Open-source alternatives to RoboticsAcademy

PythonRobotics is a comprehensive collection of modular robotics algorithms and educational simulations designed for autonomous navigation, state estimation, and motion control. The project provides a library of standalone implementations for path planning, localization, mapping, and kinematics, serving as a resource for researchers and students to experiment with foundational and advanced robotic theories. The project distinguishes itself through an algorithm-centric design where each module functions as an isolated script, allowing for independent testing and clear pedagogical demonstration

Openpilot is an open-source driver assistance system that integrates with vehicle control units to provide automated steering, acceleration, and braking. It functions as an automotive robotics middleware, utilizing a specialized runtime environment to process sensor data and execute real-time control commands that manage vehicle dynamics. The platform distinguishes itself through a hardware-agnostic interface that translates standardized driving commands into the proprietary protocols required by a wide range of vehicle makes and models. It employs neural-network-based path planning to predic

ROS-based framework and RPi image to control PX4-powered drones 🍀

The Python Toolbox for Robotics

The Robot Operating System Version 2.0 is awesome!

Makani was a project to develop a commercial-scale airborne wind turbine, culminating in a flight test of the Makani M600 off the coast of Norway. All Makani software has now been open-sourced. This repository contains the working Makani flight simulator, controller (autopilot), visualizer, and command center flight monitoring tools. Additionally, almost all avionics firmware is also included, albeit potentially not in a buildable state, due to the removal of some third-party proprietary code. We hope that this code will be inspirational and useful to the kite-based windpower and wider communi

NASA Astrobee Robot Software

F Prime is a component-based framework designed for the development and deployment of embedded and spaceflight software. It provides a modular architecture that decouples software logic from communication interfaces, allowing developers to define system structures through a domain-specific modeling language. This model-based approach enables automated code generation, ensuring consistency across complex system topologies while maintaining strict interface contracts between software modules. The framework distinguishes itself through its integrated build system and ground data operations suite

The Open-Source Rover Platform is a hardware and software framework for building and controlling six-wheel planetary exploration rovers. It provides a six-wheel robot chassis and a modular robotics framework designed for integrating various motors, wheel sizes, and chassis materials. The platform features a six-wheel chassis equipped with a differential pivot suspension and an Ackerman steering mechanism to enable navigation across rugged outdoor terrain. Control is managed through a communication system that connects central processors to hardware via Bluetooth, WiFi, or USB for remote opera

Open source self-driving software for low speed environments

This project is flight control autopilot software designed as a real-time operating system for managing the flight dynamics and navigation of autonomous multicopters, fixed-wing aircraft, and rovers. It serves as a multi-vehicle autopilot framework that supports various aircraft configurations, including vertical takeoff and landing platforms across industrial environments. The system includes a MAVLink communication stack for exchanging telemetry and command data between unmanned vehicles and ground control stations. It also provides a software-in-the-loop flight simulator to test autopilot

Autoware is a modular autonomous driving stack and open-source platform for advanced driver assistance systems. It functions as an integrated operating environment that manages the full pipeline from sensor data processing to vehicle actuation, utilizing the ROS 2 robotics framework for distributed communication and hardware abstraction. The system provides a comprehensive software architecture to enable autonomous driving across various vehicle platforms. It coordinates perception, planning, and control systems to operate vehicles without human intervention. The platform covers several core

Rapier is a cross-platform physics engine and rigid body dynamics solver designed for 2D and 3D simulations. It functions as a collision detection system and a robotics simulation framework, providing a consistent API for calculating physical interactions across different environments. The engine distinguishes itself with specialized robotics capabilities, including a toolkit for importing URDF and STL models to control multibody chains. It supports precise mechanical movement through inverse kinematics calculations and the application of PID controllers for dynamic body control. The simulat

OpenPi is a vision-language-action robot control framework designed to generate physical control actions for robotic systems. It functions as a distributed robot model trainer, a model format converter, and a robot action streaming server. The framework provides tools for transforming model checkpoints between different framework formats to ensure interoperability across various development environments. It also includes a server that uses websocket connections to stream model-generated control actions from remote inference servers to physical robot hardware in real-time. The system supports

Johnny-Five is a JavaScript robotics framework and microcontroller hardware interface designed for programming robots and IoT devices. It provides a standardized library for managing pins, motors, and displays across various microcontroller platforms, allowing developers to control sensors and actuators using a consistent JavaScript API. The framework is distinguished by its use of a plugin-based hardware abstraction system, which enables communication with diverse hardware platforms and protocols. It supports real-time hardware manipulation and debugging through a read-eval-print loop that a

Motion Generation for Robots and Machines. Real-time. Jerk-constrained. Time-optimal.

The Point Cloud Library is a collection of C++ algorithms designed for filtering, registering, and analyzing large-scale 3D spatial datasets. It provides a framework for 3D point cloud processing, incorporating tools for spatial data filtering and geometric feature estimation. The library includes specialized systems for aligning multiple spatial datasets into a single unified coordinate system and a rendering engine for the visual inspection and analysis of processed point cloud data. It also features tools for calculating spatial descriptors to identify structural patterns and shapes within

Central repository for tools, tutorials, resources, and documentation for robotics simulation in Unity.

PyRobot is a light weight, high-level interface which provides hardware independent APIs for robotic manipulation and navigation. This repository also contains the low-level stack for LoCoBot, a low cost mobile manipulator hardware platform.

This repository contains the codebase to run experiments on personalized navigation and use the PInNED dataset.

RBDL is a C++ library that contains some essential and efficient rigid body dynamics algorithms such as the Articulated Body Algorithm (ABA) for forward dynamics, Recursive Newton-Euler Algorithm (RNEA) for inverse dynamics, the Composite Rigid Body Algorithm (CRBA) for the efficient computation of the joint space inertia matrix and is also able to compute forward dynamics with external contact constraints and collision impulses. Furthermore it has some basic support for forward and inverse kinematics.

OpenRAVE Controller Plugin for UR5 (Universal Robots UR5) Robot

YARP - Yet Another Robot Platform

Behavior Trees Library for ROS (Robot Operating System). In C++ and python

g2core - The Next Generation

DEPRECATED: Open-source software for robot simulation, integrated with OpenAI Gym.