Open Source ChromeOS Robotics Software

Robocode is a programming game, where the goal is to develop a robot battle tank to battle against other tanks with Java. The robot battles are running in real-time and on-screen. The motto of Robocode is: Build the best, destroy the rest!

Welcome to the open branch of the Robotics Lab research group @ Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M). We currently host 3 main projects here: * ASIBOT open source software, which includes basic simulation, control and vision: http://roboticslab.sourceforge.net/asibot * Datasets we use for machine learning: https://sourceforge.net/projects/roboticslab/files/Datasets * Nicolas Burrus' RGBDemo stuff.

Dummy-Robot is an open source robotics project by Peng Zhihui that showcases the design and implementation of a compact robotic arm . The repository contains full hardware design files, firmware, control software, and 3D models. It includes components such as a gripper, LED light ring PCB, wireless spatial positioning controller, and a portable case. The project demonstrates advanced engineering with stepper motor drivers, custom controllers, and debugging tools. While the original version is CNC-machined, a simplified 3D-printable "youth edition" is planned to lower costs. This project serves as both an educational resource and a demonstration of innovative DIY robotics.

oomwoo is an open-source robot vacuum project designed for people who want to build their own home cleaning robot. It combines Raspberry Pi, ROS2, Home Assistant, 2D LiDAR, ESP32, Arduino, and 3D printing into a community-buildable platform. The project aims to avoid vendor lock-in by keeping the hardware, software, and firmware open. It is designed around local control, with no cloud required for regular operation. The roadmap includes autonomous navigation, mapping, a documented 3D-printable chassis, firmware, motor drivers, sensor electronics, and ROS2 packages. The project is still in an early design and RFC stage, so it is best understood as a build-in-public hardware and robotics initiative rather than a finished consumer product.

MATLABRobotics is a collection of robotics-related algorithms and simulation tools implemented in MATLAB. The repository brings together a wide range of robotics functionality, including path planning, control, localization, and mapping. It provides practical algorithmic implementations such as A*, RRT, Kalman filters, particle filters, and SLAM, making it a valuable resource for students, researchers, and developers learning or prototyping robotics applications. The code is written to be accessible and easy to adapt, enabling experimentation with both classical and modern robotics techniques. By using MATLAB’s visualization and numerical capabilities, the repository offers intuitive demonstrations of algorithms in action. As an open resource, it encourages contributions and serves as a foundation for building and testing robotics concepts in simulation.

A parametric, feature-based, sketch-driven 3D CAD application, built around a geometrical constraint solving engine. Project is in early development stage. The FreeSG library (http://freesg.org/) is required.

openPOWERLINK is an Open Source Industrial Ethernet stack for communication in hard real-time. It can be operated as both, Managing Node (master) and Controlled Node (slave). With version 2.0, the source code has been cleanly split into an application-oriented user library and a time-critical stack driver. The latter may be moved to a dedicated communication processor or into a kernel module to deliver enhanced performance while still keeping the API in user space. A full documentation of the stack is available on the web site: http://openpowerlink.sourceforge.net The following page can be used to report a security vulnerability: https://sourceforge.net/p/openpowerlink/discussion/

This repository is now frozen. The latest version of the RepRap project can be found at https://github.com/reprap.

HaikuVM has been started for hobbyists who develop applications for ARDUINO to open the world of JAVA and leJOS. Yes, you can program an ARDUINO with JAVA! HaikuVM is so small that it even runs on an atmega8 (and the ASURO robot). And yes, you can program an ASURO robot with JAVA! And since version 1.4.0 the RCX lego brick.

NEW 0.13.0 OpenShowVar is a free Linux, Mac OSX and Windows TCP client for serving as an interface to KUKA Robots. OpenShowVar implements an easy protocol for reading and writing Robot variables used inside a the Robot movement programs. KUKAVARPROXY and OpenShowVar are buit by IMTS s.r.l. Company. www.imts.eu

OpenSim - Open Simulator. Primarily a 3D simulator for multiple indoor and outdoor mobile robots. Includes 3D real-time rendering (via OSG) and a physics engine (via ODE). Current emphasis is on manipulators.

YARP, Yet Another Robot Platform. Always dreamt of controlling a humanoid robot? ...well, we do that. A C++ library for IPC, vision and control. This project was migrated to GitHub: https://github.com/robotology/yarp

A high-performance and ease-of-use implementation of the Modbus protocol written in Java by Infinite Automation Systems Inc.. Supports ASCII, RTU, TCP, and UDP transports as slave or master, automatic request partitioning and response data type parsing. For commercial licenses see www.InfiniteAutomation.com Get the most recent code here: https://github.com/infiniteautomation/modbus4j For support: http://infiniteautomation.com/forum/category/11/modbus4j-general-discussion

The Player Project: Player is a networked interface to robots and sensors. Stage and Gazebo are Player-friendly multiple-robot simulators. The software aims for POSIX compliance and runs on most UNIX-like OS's. Some parts also work on Windows.

QVM is a quaternion, vector, and matrix class set in C++ for 3D kinematics.

The Free Connectionist Q-learning Java Framework is an library for developing learning systems. Keywords: qlearning, artificial intelligence, alife, neural nets, neural networks, machine learning, reinforcement learning unsupervised learning agents lejos

CILib is a framework for developing Computational Intelligence software in swarm intelligence, evolutionary computing, neural networks, artificial immune systems, fuzzy logic and robotics.

A MATLAB toolbox for simulating the movement of the iRobot Create. Contains multiple GUIs for creating maps and other input, showing the movement of the Create, and replaying a previously saved session.

Open source 3D physics and dynamics engine and library written in pure Java. This is a Java port of ODE / OpenDE (Open Dynamics Engine). THIS PROJECT HAS BEEN MOVED TO A NEW LOCATION: http://www.ode4j.org

iCub is an open platform for scientists interested in investigating issues in embodied cognition. Here you find all the software and hardware documentation.

File Host and Sample Code for Shervin Emami's website at http://www.shervinemami.co.cc/

clipsmm is a C++ interface to the CLIPS libray, a C library for developing expert systems.

A simple GUI frontend for the Microchip pk2cmd program written in python. At the minute it only supports writing. I plan to add reading and maintainance (renaming pickit2 devices, updating firmware) features soon.

A python-tkinter kit to experiment with the generation and solving of mazes.

A robotic DIY styrofoam cutter consisting of one rotational and two translational axes. It cuts a variety of shapes out of styrofoam-like materials using a hot wire. This project documents the necessary hardware and software parts. Don't miss the follow-up project at http://raumschaum.org Its goal is to further develop hardware and software into an user friendly application.