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4 Axis Stepper Control for CNC - Windows and DOS-based software is provided to control homebrew

ActivMedia Robotics Interface for Applications - ARIA is an OO C++ library for controlling ActivMedia mobile robots. Provides dynamic control of velocity

Autopilot - A complete Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) control system with 3 axis IMU/INS+GPS. Autopilot is Free Software and

BotController - Control software for Khepera

Carnegie Mellon Robot Navigation Toolkit - CARMEN is modular

CMU Mobile Autonomous Robot Software - CMU MultiRobot Lab MARS packages are complete

Dave's Multi-tasking Sumo Robot Program - Multi-tasking control program for a Sumo robot equipped with multiple sensors. C source code for the 68HC11 Handiboard.

Dave's Robotic Operating System - DROS is an Open Source project at the Australian National University. DROS is a modular framework for controlling a wide range of mobile robots. Coded in C++ and Perl. Licensed under the GNU GPL.

DRobot - Reversed-engineered

EGgO Educational Robotics Platform - A software platform and associated hardware with a focus on educational use. Software can handle 100+ I/O ports

EusLisp Robot Programming Language - Object-oriented Lisp-based programming system designed specifically for the development of robotics software.

FIPA-OS - A component-based Java toolkit enabling rapid development of FIPA compliant physical agents. Source code is available under an Open Source-like license.

GVG SLAM - Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) software that generates a map called a generalized Voronoi graph (GVG). Written in C.

jabot - Event-driven controller for small remote robots. This approach uses a MIDI-style object mechanism for controlling over the internet. JINI and Java based.

JRobot - Java Interface for Mitsubishi RVM1 Robot. Control and camera interfaces are provided. Open Source software released under the BSD license.

KControl - A Linux-based control and monitor program for the Khepera robot. C++ source is included. License prohibits most non-educational use.

Mobile and Autonomous Robotics Integration Environment - MARIE is a development and integration environment built over a communication layer. Its main goal is to integrate other robotics software such as Player/Stage

Modular Controller Architecture 2 - A modular

Multi-purpose Aerial Robotic Vehicle with Intelligent Navigation - TU Berlin

Nomadic.Sourceforge.Net - Official production releases and source code from the now defunct Nomadic Technologies

NROSoft Robotics Software - BASIC Stamp code used by the GearGrinders (Team 112) in the FIRST robotic competition. Source code for the 2001 and 2002 events is available.

Object Oriented Mobile Robot Model - OOMRM is a C++ library developed for the 68332 MRM microprocessor board. It includes a host (Windows/Linux) mobile robot simulator that can be run independently of the 68332. OOMRM is Free Software licensed under the GNU LGPL.

Object Oriented Mobile Robot Model - OOMRM is a C++ library developed for the 68332 MRM microprocessor board. It includes a host (Windows/Linux) mobile robot simulator that can be run independently of the 68332. OOMRM is Free Software licensed under the GNU LGPL.

PC/104 Robotics Drivers - For PC/104+ users. Includes Linux drivers for the ACCES 104-DIO-48S digital I/O board

Peeves Control Program - PID-based odometry and dead-reckoning for a mobile robot with differential steering

Pyro AI and Robotics System - A library

RAP System - The Reactive Action Packages (RAP) system provides a plan and task representation structured to make a task's expected behavior evident. Written in Common Lisp. Copyright allows educational use only.

RHexLib - A collection of C++ libraries that form the Open Source control software used in the RHex hexapod robot. The code was developed for the QNX RTOS but also runs on Linux. Released under the BSD license.

Robosoft - A multiprocess robotic "nervous system" that will allow a four-legged robot to control itself autonomously in nine degrees of freedom. Robosoft is Open Source C++ code under the BSD license.

Robot Control C Library - RCCL is a library of C routines for doing real-time control and graphic simulation of a number of industrial robots

SAPHIRA - A robot control system developed at SRI's AI Center as an integrated architecture for robot perception and action. C/C++ source include. Non-commercial use only.

ServoMaster - A platform independent servo controller driver compatible with FerretTronics and Phidget boards. Java and C++ versions. Free Software licensed under the GNU GPL.

SPLAT - The Simple Provisional Language for Actions and Tasks provides both a language for specifying control laws and a runtime environment for executing and monitoring them. Based on RScheme. SPLAT is Free Software licensed under the GNU GPL.

step - C source code for a Linux stepper motor controller that can control up to 3 unipolar steppers through a PC parallel port. Free Software licensed under the GNU GPL.

Visual Servo Automation - VSA provides MS Windows-based motion control compatible with servo controllers commonly used in robotics applications such the Mini SSC

xbot - A modular bot software environment based on the .Net framework for autonomous neuronal network