Open Source MATLAB Robotics Software

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.

This toolbox brings robotics-specific functionality to MATLAB, exploiting the native capabilities of MATLAB (linear algebra, portability, graphics). The Toolbox uses a very general method of representing the kinematics and dynamics of serial-link manipulators as MATLAB® objects – robot objects can be created by the user for any serial-link manipulator and a number of examples are provided for well-known robots from Kinova, Universal Robotics, Rethink as well as classical robots such as the Puma 560 and the Stanford arm. The toolbox also supports mobile robots with functions for robot motion models (unicycle, bicycle), path planning algorithms (bug, distance transform, D*, PRM), kinodynamic planning (lattice, RRT), localization (EKF, particle filter), map building (EKF) and simultaneous localization and mapping (EKF), and a Simulink model a of non-holonomic vehicle. The Toolbox also includes a detailed Simulink model for a quadrotor flying robot.

DYNAMIXEL SDK is a software development kit that provides DYNAMIXEL control functions using packet communication. The API of DYNAMIXEL SDK is designed for DYNAMIXEL actuators and DYNAMIXEL-based platforms. You need to be familiar with C/C++ programming language for right use of the software. This e-Manual provides comprehensive information on ROBOTIS products and applications.

Science based weld software to develop optimal automatic weld procedures. SmartWeld is a PC based tool for designers, engineers, and technicians to aid in selecting, optimizing, and configuring automated welding processes.

Moved to https://github.com/rdiankov/openrave An open-source, cross-platform, plugin-based robot planning environment for autonomous robotics. Includes services like collision detection, physics, (inverse) kinematics, sensors, robot controls, python bindings, and a network scripting environment.

A cross-platform library that computes fast and accurate SIFT image features. libsiftfast provides Octave/Matlab scripts, a command line interface, and a python interface (siftfastpy). Optimized with SIMD instructions and OpenMP .

The Fish4knowledge project investigated: information abstraction and storage methods for analyzing undersea video data (from 10E+15 pixels to 10E+12 units of information), machine and human vocabularies for detecting & describing fish, flexible process architectures to process the data and scientific queries and effective specialised user query interfaces. A combination of computer vision, database storage, workflow and human computer interaction methods were used to achieve this. The project used live video feeds from 10 underwater cameras as a testbed for investigating more generally applicable methods for capture, storage, analysis and querying of multiple video streams. We collated a public database from 3 years containing video summaries of the observed fish and associated descriptors. Expert web-based interfaces were developed for use by marine researchers, allowing unprecedented access to live and previously stored videos, or previously extracted information.

This project aims to develop a colour-based vision processing system for use in RoboCup. We are using a CCD camera for input to an FPGA. The system locates coloured objects and outputs detected corners.

The KUKA Control Toolbox (KCT) is a collection of MATLAB functions developed at the University of Siena, for motion control of KUKA robot manipulators.

Embedded system design (VHDL description) based on Xilinx's Spartan3E Development Kit to perform real-time PID control and monitoring of time critical plants such as brushless DC motors, maglevs... vimeo.com/channels/anie prezi.com/gpbycavq499c/anie/

FEMM procedures to analyse rotating machines.

The HapticAnalysis Package is a set of toolboxes for analysis of (1-dof bilateral) Haptic Teleoperation Systems. Symbolic math in GNU/Maxima, numerics in Mathworks Matlab. The teleoperator is analyzed using the H-matrix model.

The Matlab/Octave rotations library is a collection of functions, bundled as m-scripts, that address computations and numerical handling of rotations in 3D Euclidean space. The rotation representations that are supported are rotation matrices (Rotmat), Quaternions (Quat), intrinsic ZYX Euler angles (Euler), fused angles (Fused) and tilt angles (Tilt). Operations such as composition, inversion, ZYX yaw extraction, fused yaw extraction, random generation, equality detection, vector rotation and much more have been implemented for each rotation representation. Tilt vector addition and the relative and absolute tilt phase spaces are also supported. Unit tests for each function are provided to ensure that the library is performant.

This project will use 3D Human Emulation using sensors to pickup human movements and displaying them on GUI for analysis.

Bayesian Surprise Matlab toolkit is a basic toolkit for computing Bayesian surprise values given a large set of input samples. It is also useful as way of exploring surprise theory. For more information see also: http://ilab.usc.edu/

Custom uav is a complete flight control system in development. The project includes everything required for unmanned flight.

Cell decomposition is one of the first applicable solution for path planning - robot path planning. The algorithm aims to find free areas (cells not occupied by obstacles) in the configuration space, and build a graph of adjacency for these cells.

This is a tool(MATLAB code) to find out the least-weighing path in a maze containing coloured squares where every colour has its own specified weight/cost. By default, it is programmed to calculate the path in a 8x8 square maze.

The Constrained Manipulation Planning Suite (CoMPS) consists of three openrave plugins and associated data files. The planning and inverse kinematics algorithms in this suite are designed for articulated robots like robotic arms and humanoids. CoMPS is implemented in C++ and compiles in linux only. There are also several examples in python and matlab that show how to interface with openrave to use the plugins in CoMPS. It has been tested on all Ubuntu version from the last few years and will probably work with most modern linux distributions. Please see the wiki for installation and examples: https://sourceforge.net/p/comps/wiki/Home/

DQ Robotics has been moved to GitHub. The SourceForge project will not be updated anymore. Please see http://dqrobotics.github.io.

Hans(HUJI's Autonomous Navigation System) is a mobile robot that will be able to navigate it's way in a known area. The main developing platform is the player/stage . The project blog : http://hansnavsystem.blogspot.com/

The SPHERES simulation is designed to support most software-related aspects of single- and multi-satellite SPHERES operations. The simulation code base consists of simulated versions of most of the SPHERES core flight code and additional code that simulates dynamics, communications, and other environmental interaction. The simulation is particularly valuable during the early stages of algorithm development and implementation as an aid in accelerating the learning curve for any Guest Scientist for SPHERES. Algorithms may be implemented in C or Embedded MATLAB and executed in the MATLAB simulation environment to verify general desired behavior. With some limitations, the code used in the simulation can be directly transferred to the SPHERES hardware. We are sharing this project with the public to gather more interest for SPHERES Guest Scientists. Feel free to use and contribute to this code base, just don't forget to credit the MIT Space Systems Lab if you distribute any results.

MatODE is a simple Matlab toolbox for interfacing to the Open Dynamics Engine rigid body physics simulator (ODE, by Russell Smith), created by the Delft Biorobotics Lab (Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands). The system to be simulated is defined in an XML file, while the joint positions and motor signals can be sensed and actuated from a Matlab script. Examples are provided. Starting at version 0.30, MatODE is only available for Windows and Linux 64-bit. For older 32-bit versions, select "Browse all files".

The Open Optimal Control Library is a software framework in Matlab/Octave for modeling optimal control problem. It uses automatic differentiation and fast non-linear programming solvers. It implements direct methods. In the backend it uses CasADi and ipopt.

PAPAS (Path Planning Algorithms Suite) is a set of algorithms intended for path planning. It has common algorithms like PRM, RRT, Wavefront Planner, etc. The implementation is done in C language.