Robotics suite

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.

See also

• Lego Mindstorms
• Vex Robotics Design System
• Robot operating system
• Player Project (formerly the Player/Stage Project or Player/Stage/Gazebo Project)
• Webots
• Microsoft Robotics Studio
• URBI
• AnyKode Marilou
• Evolution Robotics
• Simbad robot simulator

External links

• Microsoft MSDN robotics pages
• Python Robotics website - a suite of tools for exploring robotics from the language Python (programming language)
• urbiforge.org - the Urbi open source community page
• The Gostai Studio visual programming suite for Urbi

References

• http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-robotools/?ca=dgr-lnxw09OSRoboticToolkits
• http://linuxdevices.com/articles/AT9631072539.html