Software:Robotics suite

Short description: Visual environment for robot control and simulation

A robotics suite is a visual environment for robot control and simulation. They are typically an end-to-end platform for robotics development and include tools for visual programming 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 hardware and both free software and hardware.

Suites

• Fedora Robotics

See also

• AnyKode Marilou
• ArduPilot
• Debian Science
• Evolution Robotics
• Lego Mindstorms
• Microsoft Robotics Studio
• Player Project (formerly the Player/Stage Project or Player/Stage/Gazebo Project)
• Robot software
• Robot Operating System
• Simbad robot simulator
• URBI
• Webots

References

• Jones, M. Tim (5 September 2006). "Open source robotics toolkits". IBM developerWorks. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-robotools/?ca=dgr-lnxw09OSRoboticToolkits. 
• Linux Devices (29 July 2008). "Updated review of robotics software platforms". Linux for Devices. http://linuxdevices.com/articles/AT9631072539.html.