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Awesome robotics list

Awesome Robotics

A list of important content related to Mobile Robotics. Check also the robotics glossary of acronyms.

Contents

• News
• Books
• Survey Papers
• Courses
• Perception
• SLAM
• Planning
• Control
• AI
• Software
• Hardware
• Electronics
• Mechanics
• Datasets
• Journals and conferences
• Companies
• Miscellaneous

News

• IEEE Spectrum Robotics
• The Robot Report
• MIT Robotics
• Robotics And Automation News
• Robotics Business Review
• Reddit/robotics

Books

• Probabilistic Robotics | S. Thrun et al. | 2005
• Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots | R. Sigwart et al. | 2004
• Introduction to Autonomous Robots | N. Correll et al. | 2022
• Springer Handbook of Robotics | 2008
• Where am I? Sensors and Methods for Mobile Robot Positioning | J. Borenstein et al. | 1996
• Modern Robotics: Mechanics, Planning, and Control | K. Lynch, F. Park | 2017
• Robotics, Vision, and Control: Fundamental Algorithms in MATLAB | P. Corke | 2017

Survey Papers

• Robotic Mapping: A Survey (2002)
• Past, Present, and Future of Simultaneous Localization And Mapping: Towards the Robust-Perception Age (2016)

Courses

• GraphSLAM tutorials code
• The what and why of GRAPH SLAM!
• SLAM Tutorial@ICRA 2016
• Autonomous Mobile Robots
• Introduction to Mobile Robotics - UniFreiburg
• Kalman and Bayesian Filters in Python
• Multidimensional Kalman-Filter
• How a Kalman filter works in pictures
• Self-Driving Cars with ROS and Autoware
• edX Autonomous Mobile Robots
• edX Self-Driving Cars with Duckietown

Perception

Computer Vision

• OpenCV | Open-source Computer Vision library focused on real-time vision
• DeepFace | Open-source face recognition Python library

3D Data Processing

• PCL | Point Cloud Library
• Open3D | Library for 3D data processing
• ICP | Iterative Closest Point
• libpointmatcher | Open-source implementation of the Iterative Closest Point
• OctoMap | Efficient Probabilistic 3D Mapping Framework Based on Octrees
• RansacLib | RANSAC Implementation

SLAM

Monocular

• ORB_SLAM | A Versatile and Accurate Monocular SLAM
• ORB_SLAM3 | Real-time SLAM able to perform Visual, Visual-Inertial and Multi-Map SLAM with monocular, stereo and RGB-D cameras
• LSD-SLAM | Large-Scale Direct Monocular SLAM
• SVO | Semi-Direct Monocular Visual Odometry
• DSO | Direct Sparse Odometry
• LDSO | Direct Sparse Odometry with Loop Closure
• PTAM | Parallel Tracking and Mapping
• LPVO | Line and Plane based Visual Odometry
• LCSD_SLAM | Loosely-Coupled Semi-Direct Monocular SLAM

Stereo

• ORB-SLAM2
• S-PTAM | Stereo Parallel Tracking and Mapping

RGB-D

• DVO: Dense Visual Odometry
• RGBD-SLAM

Other

• SLAM Toolbox
• Cartographer
• Graph-SLAM
• Hector SLAM
• RBPF-SLAM
• ElasticFusion
• LOAM-Livox
• GMapping | SLAM based on Rao-Blackwellized particle filter
• OpenSLAM

Optimization

• CasADi
• ACADO Toolkit
• Ceres Solver
• g2o

Planning

• Intro to A*
• Path finding | Path finding algorithms visualization
• OMPL | The Open Motion Planning Library
• MoveIt | Motion planning framework

Control

• FastPID

AI

• YOLOv5

Software

Tools

• 3D Rotation Converter

Frameworks

• ROS | Robot Operating System
• ROS 2 | Robot Operating System 2
• YARP | Yet Another Robot Platform
• Autoware.Auto | An open-source software stack based on ROS 2 for self​-driving technology
• OpenPilot | An open source driver assistance system
• Apollo | Autonomous Driving Solution

ROS 2 Packages

• geometry2
• ros2_control
• ros2_controllers
• cartographer
• navigation2
• slam_toolbox
• slam_gmappiong
• robot_localization
• imu_tools
• moveit2

Simulation

• Ignition Gazebo - successor of Gazebo
• Gazebo
• CoppeliaSim | successor of V-REP
• SVL
• Unity
• CARLA
• Webots
• AirSim
• Player/Stage
• O3DE (Open 3D Engine)
• NVIDIA Isaac
• MATLAB/Simulink
• Scilab/Xcos | Open-source alternative to Matlab and Simulink
• Octave | Another open-source alternative to Matlab

Libraries

• Eigen | C++ template library for linear algebra: matrices, vectors and numerical solvers
• MRPT | Mobile Robot Programming Toolkit
• PythonRobotics | Various robotics algorithms
• Arduino PID Library

Optimization

• Ceres Solver | Nonlinear optimization library
• g2o | C++ framework for optimizing graph-based nonlinear error functions
• CasADi | A tool for nonlinear optimization and algorithmic differentiation

Nearest Neighbor Search

• FLANN | Fast Library for Approximate Nearest Neighbors
• nanoflann | C++ library for building KD-Trees

Hardware

Sensors

Lidars

• Velodyne
• Livox
• SICK
• Hokuyo
• Ouster
• Hesai

RGB-D sensors

• Microsoft Kinect 2.0 | Time of flight
• Microsoft Azure Kinect DK | Time of flight
• Structure Core/Sensor Pro
• Intel RealSense D435 | Active IR Stereo
• Intel RealSense D405 | Stereo Camera
• StereoLabs ZED 2 | Stereo camera with neural networks
• Asus Xtion Pro Live | Structured light
• Optonic Enseno N35-606-16-BL | Structured light
• Orbec Astra Mini | Structured light

IMU

• Bosch IMUs
• Phidgets
• Advanced Navigation Orientus

Electronics

• KiCad EDA | Open-source tool for PCB design

Mechanics

• FreeCAD | Open-source 3D modeling tool

Datasets

• Awesome SLAM Datasets
• TUM University - RGBD data
• KITTI Vision
• Gazebo models
• NASA 3D models

Journals and conferences

Journals

• Autonomous Robots | Springer
• Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems | Springer
• International Journal of Social Robotics | Springer
• RAM - Robotics & Automation Magazine | IEEE
• Transactions on Robotics (T-RO) | IEEE
• RA-L - Robotics and Automation Letters | IEEE
• IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics | IEEE
• IJRR - International Journal of Robotics Research | Sage
• IJARS - International Journal of Advanced Robotics Systems | Sage
• JFR - Journal of Field Robotics | Wiley
• Robotics and Autonomous Systems | Elsevier
• Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing | Elsevier
• Mechatronics | Elsevier
• Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing | Elsevier
• Robotica | Cambridge
• Frontiers in Robotics and AI
• Journal of Automation, Mobile Robotics and Intelligent Systems
• Sensors | MDPI
• JOSS - Journal of Open Source Software
• JAMRIS - Journal of Automation, Mobile Robotics & Intelligent Systems
• International Journal of Robotics

Conferences

• ICRA - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
• RSS - Robotics: Science and Systems Conference
• IROS - IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
• International Symposium of Robotic Research (ISRR)
• International Symposium of Experimental Robotics (ISER)
• Robotica
• ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI)
• International Conference on Methods and Models in Automation and Robotics (MMAR)
• ROSCon

Companies

• Boston Dynamics
• Waymo | Autonomous Driving car company from Google
• Fetch Robotics
• AutonomousStuff
• Aptiv
• ABB Robotics | The manufacturer of industrial robots
• KUKA Robotics | The manufacturer of industrial robots
• FANUC | Industrial robots manufacturer
• Soft Robotics
• The construct sim | A cloud based tool for building robot simulations
• PAL Robotics
• iRobot | Manufacturer of the Roomba
• Aldebaran Robotics | Manufacturer of the Nao robot
• Rethink Robotics | Creator of Baxter robot
• DJI
• Halodi Robotics
• Nuro - autonomous driving
• Diligent Robotics
• Magazino
• Accrea
• Universal Robots
• X
• Small Robot Company
• Optimus Ride | self-driving vehicles
• Amazon Robotics
• UiPath
• Accuray | Healthcare
• Intuitive Surgical | Healthcare
• Da Vinci Surgery | Surgery robots

Miscellaneous

Robots

• Turtlebot
• PR2
• Atlas
• Husarion

Projects

• Rovina (EU)
• Mars 2020 (NASA)

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• tzutalin/awesome-visual-slam
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