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Robot Motion Planning Software: Verified Frameworks

Compare verified motion-planning, navigation and control frameworks for robot arms and mobile robots.

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Compare operating-system support, robot and sensor integrations, license terms, documented installation methods and the maintenance activity of the official project or vendor. A feature listed by one tool should not be assumed for another.

Robot motion planning

MoveIt 2

Verified source

Developed by MoveIt project

MoveIt 2 is a ROS 2 framework for motion planning, manipulation, kinematics and collision checking.

Open sourceROS 2

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Robot motion planning

Nav2

Verified source

Developed by Open Navigation project

Nav2 provides planning, control, recovery and behavior-tree tools for mobile robot navigation in ROS 2.

Open sourceROS 2

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Robot motion planning

Drake

Verified source

Developed by Toyota Research Institute

Drake is a toolbox for modeling, planning and control of robotic systems with optimization and multibody dynamics.

Open source

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