Debian Science Robotics packages

Choreonoid is an integrated robotics GUI environment, which allows users to add their own functions on the basis of various basic robotics functions.

Provides a network interface to a variety of robot and sensor hardware. Player's client/server model allows robot control programs to be written in any programming language and to run on any computer with a network connection to the robot. Player supports multiple concurrent client connections to devices, creating new possibilities for distributed and collaborative sensing and control.

Player supports a wide variety of mobile robots and accessories.

The Orocos Component Library uses the Real-Time Toolkit (RTT) for constructing all its components. Some components use the Kinematics and Dynamics Library (KDL), the Bayesian Filtering Library (BFL) or other libraries.

The Orocos Real-Time Toolkit (RTT) is not an application in itself, but it provides the infrastructure and the functionalities to build robotics applications in C++. The emphasis is on real-time, online interactive and component based applications.

OpenHRP3 (Open Architecture Human-centered Robotics Platform version 3) is an integrated software platform for robot simulations and software developments. It allows the users to inspect an original robot model and control program by dynamics simulation. In addition, OpenHRP3 provides various software components and calculation libraries that can be used for robotics related software developments.

OpenRTM is a robotics middleware. It provides C++, Python, Java libraries to enable robotics component development and also integrates with Eclipse. This middleware is OMG RTC standard compliant and is used by the robotics community.

Collision detection is the process of detecting pairs of objects that are intersecting or are within a given proximity of each other. SOLID contains operations for performing intersection tests and proximity queries on a wide variety of shape types, including: deformable triangle meshes, boxes, ellipsoids, and convex polyhedra.

Since it exploits temporal coherence in a number of ways, SOLID is especially useful for detecting collisions between objects that move smoothly over time. The motions of objects are controlled by the client application, and are not determined or affected by SOLID.

Although it can be used for physics-based simulations, SOLID is not a physics engine by itself. SOLID leaves it up to the application programmer how the laws of physics are implemented.

at performance and accuracy, that supports rigid objects as well as deformables - such as cloth - including self-collision detection.

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 easily integrated into existing robotics systems.

It provides many command line tools to work with robots and planners, and the run-time core is small enough to be used inside controllers and bigger frameworks. An important target application is industrial robotics automation.

ROBOOP is a C++ robotics object oriented programming toolbox suitable for synthesis, and simulation of robotic manipulator models in an environment that provides ``MATLAB like'' features for the treatment of matrices. Its is a portable tool that does not require the use of commercial software.

RTnet is an Open Soure hard real-time network protocol stack for Xenomai and RTAI (real-time Linux extensions). It makes use of standard Ethernet hardware and supports several popular NIC chip sets, including Gigabit Ethernet. Moreover, Ethernet-over-1394 support is available based on the RT-FireWire protocol stack.