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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

A high-performance implementation of the BACnet I/P and MS/TP protocol written for Java (minimum version 1.5) by Infinite Automation Systems. Supports all BACnet services and full message segregation. Can be used for field devices or for control platforms. For commercial licenses contact https://infiniteautomation.com/bacnet4j-open-source-bacnet-library/ The most recent code is here: https://github.com/infiniteautomation/BACnet4J For support see: https://forum.infiniteautomation.com/category/12/bacnet4j-general-discussion

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.

PyRobot is a high-level robotics API that simplifies controlling real and simulated robots through a consistent Python interface. Instead of fighting ROS internals, you call clear methods for things like base navigation, arm manipulation, and camera capture, and PyRobot handles the plumbing. It was built to make research repeatable on accessible platforms—most notably low-cost mobile manipulators—while still scaling to richer hardware. The library exposes canonical abstractions (base, arm, gripper, camera, sensors) with calibration and kinematics helpers so beginners can get meaningful results quickly. It also plugs into simulation backends, letting you prototype perception and control algorithms before deploying on physical robots. By standardizing common operations and providing examples, PyRobot reduces boilerplate and encourages best practices in perception-control loops, data collection, and benchmarking.

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/

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

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

Multi-platform tools and information for programming and controlling LEGO MINDSTORMS programmable bricks, such as the NXT, via USB and Bluetooth.

This is a sophisticated & integrated simulation and analysis environment for dynamical systems models of physical systems (ODEs, DAEs, maps, and hybrid systems). It supports symbolic math, optimization, continuation, data analysis, biological apps...

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.

It's an object-oriented library written in C++ for creating arbitrary kind of neural networks. The user can use the classes provided to create neural network with arbitrary topology and mixed type of neurons. It's very easy add custom neurons.

Open source, cross platform drivers and function library for the NovInt Falcon Haptic Controller. These drivers are not produced by Novint Technologies, Inc. and do not come with any warranty as to their correctness or usage.

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.

A C++, object-oriented, Extended Kalman Filter library.

openCONFIGURATOR is an open-source configuration framework for easy setup, configuration and maintenance of any POWERLINK (https://goo.gl/U9tjiy) network. It ideally complements openPOWERLINK, the open source POWERLINK protocol stack for master and slave. The project consists of a core library implementing the configuration algorithms and an eclipse plugin base user interface. For XDD tooling and validation support within eclipse please visit: https://goo.gl/NBytgg Please use the update site to install the plugin in your eclipse environment: http://sourceforge.net/projects/eclipse-plugin.openconf.p/files/update-site/ KNOWN ISSUE WITH THE UPDATE SITE DUE TO SOURCEFORGE ENCRYPTION POLICIES: https://goo.gl/kVr2ZZ Install via Eclipse marketplace: http://goo.gl/vweJ9h User Manual: https://goo.gl/viGd5P For Linux distributions with Boost 1.54.0 please use: https://goo.gl/hMRTss For Linux distributions with Boost 1.61.0 please use: https://goo.gl/ZSvW7C

Calculation of camshafts - allows to define a camshaft profile on the set trajectory which should provide the given mechanism. The trajectory can be set graphically, co-ordinates or function.

A simulation environment for 2D robots to interact and perform tasks in. Meant to be educational and demonstrate emergent behaviors. No download necessary! See demos on project website!

XinCNC is a free software for Computer Numerical Control (CNC).

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