blockly-android - Blockly for Android

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Blockly is a library for building drag-and-drop visual editors for JavaScript and other programming languages. Blockly for Android is a developer preview of Blockly's editor built with standard Android views and fragments, offering more responsive touch performance and easier integration in Android apps.Get started building your own Android app using Blockly.

ROS - The Robot Operating System

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The Robot Operating System (ROS) is a flexible framework for writing robot software. It is a collection of tools, libraries, and conventions that aim to simplify the task of creating complex and robust robot behavior across a wide variety of robotic platforms. ROS was built from the ground up to encourage collaborative robotics software development.

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blockly - The web-based visual programming editor.

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Blockly is a library for building visual programming editors.

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blockly-games - Games for tomorrow's programmers.

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Google's Blockly Games is a series of educational games that teach programming. It is based on the Blockly library. All code is free and open source.

elevation_mapping - Robot-centric elevation mapping for rough terrain navigation

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This is a ROS package developed for elevation mapping with a mobile robot. The software is designed for (local) navigation tasks with robots which are equipped with a pose estimation (e.g. IMU & odometry) and a distance sensor (e.g. structured light (Kinect, RealSense), laser range sensor, stereo camera). The provided elevation map is limited around the robot and reflects the pose uncertainty that is aggregated through the motion of the robot (robot-centric mapping). This method is developed to explicitly handle drift of the robot pose estimation. This is research code, expect that it changes often and any fitness for a particular purpose is disclaimed.

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apollo-platform - Collections of Apollo Platform Software

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The Apollo-platform will cover all the platform level support. In the first release, we add the most popular solution Robot Operating System (ROS) under ros directory. The Robot Operating System (ROS) is flexible framework for writing robot software. This release is originated from ROS Indigo release.

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scratch-blocks - Scratch Blocks is a library for building creative computing interfaces.

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Scratch Blocks is a fork of Google's Blockly project that provides a design specification and codebase for building creative computing interfaces. Together with the Scratch Virtual Machine (VM) this codebase allows for the rapid design and development of visual programming interfaces. This project is in active development and should be considered a "developer preview" at this time.

champ - 𓃡 Quadruped Robot based on MIT Cheetah I

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ROS Packages for CHAMP Quadruped Controller. CHAMP is an open source development framework for building new quadrupedal robots and developing new control algorithms. The control framework is based on "Hierarchical controller for highly dynamic locomotion utilizing pattern modulation and impedance control : implementation on the MIT Cheetah robot".

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universal_robot - ROS-Industrial universal robot meta-package (http://wiki.ros.org/universal_robot)

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ROS-Industrial Universal Robot meta-package. See the ROS wiki page for compatibility information and other more information. Installation from Source There are releases available for ROS Hydro and ROS Indigo. However, for the latest features and developments you might want to install from source.

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carma-platform - CARMA Platform is built on robot operating system (ROS) and utilizes open source software (OSS) that enables Cooperative Driving Automation (CDA) features to allow Automated Driving Systems to interact and cooperate with infrastructure and other vehicles through communication

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CARMASM advances research and development to accelerate market readiness and deployment of cooperative driving automation, while advancing automated driving technology safety, security, data, and artificial intelligence. It encourages collaboration and participation by a community of engineers and researchers to advance understanding of cooperative driving automation using open source software (OSS) and agile project management practices. CARMA is a reusable, extensible platform for controlling SAE level 2 connected, automated vehicles (AVs). It provides a rich, generic API for third party plugins that implement vehicle guidance algorithms to plan vehicle trajectories. It is written in C++ and runs in a Robot Operating System (ROS) environment on Ubuntu. The platform can be reused on a variety of properly equipped vehicles. Migration has begun from the ROS 1 framework to ROS 2.

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jupyter-ros - Jupyter widget helpers for ROS, the Robot Operating System

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While the Jupyter ecosystem has been widely adopted by the Data Science and Machine Learning community, the robotics community has not jumped on the band wagon yet! Most tools around ROS, the Robot Operating System, are built using Python and QT. However, using QT seperates the user away from the code. We've built an initial version of the ROS tools for jupyter notebook, trying to promote a rich, interactive experience for Robotics developers utilizing the power of the jupyter notebook.

roslibjs - The Standard ROS JavaScript Library

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For full documentation, see the ROS wiki or check out some working demos. JSDoc can be found on the Robot Web Tools website.

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phobos - An add-on for Blender allowing to create URDF, SDF and SMURF robot models in a WYSIWYG environment

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Phobos is an add-on for the open-source 3D modeling software Blender that enables the creation of WYSIWYG robot models for use in robot frameworks like ROS and ROCK or in real-time simulations such as MARS or Gazebo. Phobos exports formats such as URDF, SDF or SMURF and common mesh formats (Stereolithography (.stl), Wavefront (.obj) or Collada (.dae)). Phobos was initiated and is currently developed at the Robotics Innovation Center of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) in Bremen, together with the Robotics Group of the University of Bremen.

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webots - Webots Robot Simulator

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Webots is an open-source robot simulator released under the terms of the Apache 2.0 license. It provides a complete development environment to model, program and simulate robots, vehicles and biomechanical systems. You can download pre-compiled binaries for Windows, macOS and Linux of the latest release, as well as older releases and nightly builds.

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Human-Robot Engagement

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ROS repository for human-robot engagement package, developed at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Currently contains ROS stack for recognizing and generating connection events. This work is supported by the NSF awards IIS-0811942 and IIS-1012083.

simulator - A ROS/ROS2 Multi-robot Simulator for Autonomous Vehicles

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Check out our latest news and subscribe to our mailing list to get the latest updates. LG Electronics America R&D Lab has developed an HDRP Unity-based multi-robot simulator for autonomous vehicle developers. We provide an out-of-the-box solution which can meet the needs of developers wishing to focus on testing their autonomous vehicle algorithms. It currently has integration with The Autoware Foundation's Autoware.auto and Baidu's Apollo platforms, can generate HD maps, and can be immediately used for testing and validation of a whole system with little need for custom integrations. We hope to build a collaborative community among robotics and autonomous vehicle developers by open sourcing our efforts.

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laser_line_extraction - A ROS package that extracts line segments from LaserScan messages.

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In the above image, the white dots are points in a LaserScan message, and the red lines are what is extracted by Laser Line Extraction. This data was collected by driving a robot through Beamish-Munro Hall at Queen's University. A SICK LMS111 laser scanner was mounted to the robot. The extraction algorithm is very configurable; the above image used the parameters configured in the example.launch launch file. After applying some filters to remove outlying points, Laser Line Extraction implements a split-and-merge algorithm to determine which points belong to lines. Next, it implements the weighted line fitting algorithm by Pfister et al. [1] to find the best fit lines and their respective covariance matrices.

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free_gait - An Architecture for the Versatile Control of Legged Robots

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NOTICE: This software is not supported anymore! The authors of this software have changed their affiliation and do not work on this project anymore. Please excuse any inconvenience this might cause. If you are interested in working with the ANYmal robot, please reach out to ANYbotics. Free Gait is a software framework for the versatile, robust, and task-oriented control of legged robots. The Free Gait interface defines a whole-body abstraction layer to accommodate a variety of task-space control commands such as end effector, joint, and base motions. The defined motion tasks are tracked with a feedback whole-body controller to ensure accurate and robust motion execution even under slip and external disturbances. The application of this framework includes intuitive tele-operation of the robot, efficient scripting of behaviors, and fully autonomous operation with motion and footstep planners.

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dynamic_robot_localization - Point cloud registration pipeline for robot localization and 3D perception

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The dynamic_robot_localization is a ROS package that offers 3 DoF and 6 DoF localization using PCL and allows dynamic map update using OctoMap. It's a modular localization pipeline, that can be configured using yaml files (detailed configuration layout available in drl_configs.yaml and examples of configurations available in guardian_config and dynamic_robot_localization_tests). Even though this package was developed for robot self-localization and mapping, it was implemented as a generic, configurable and extensible point cloud matching library, allowing its usage in related problems such as estimation of the 6 DoF pose of an object and 3D object scanning.

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ros_best_practices - Best practices, conventions, and tricks for ROS

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Best practices for ROS2 in the making. See the Foxy branch in the meanwhile. This is a loose collection of best practices, conventions, and tricks for using the Robot Operating System (ROS). It builds up on the official ROS documentation and other resources and is meant as summary and overview.

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