Universal Robot Body Interface (Urbi) is an open-source software platform to develop applications for robotics and complex systems.
It includes a C++ component library called UObject that comes with a robot standard API to describe motors, sensors and algorithms.
The goal of Urbi is to help making robots compatible, and simplify the process of writing programs and behaviours for those robots.
Key Features
- Gostai Studio – behaviour editor and GUI builder to design interfaces.
- Interoperable with Willow Garage’s ROS.
- Components for robotics including:
- Voice recognition.
- Voice synthesis.
- Face detection.
- Face recognition.
- Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM).
- Colour blob detection.
- SIFT based object recognition.
Website: github.com/aldebaran/urbi
Support: Documentation
Developer: Gostai
License: GNU Affero GPL v3
Urbi is written in C++. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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|---|---|
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| Gazebo Sim | Robot simulation made easy |
| AprilTag | Visual fiducial system popular for robotics research |
| Webots | Multi-platform desktop application used to simulate robots |
| ROS | Software framework for building robot applications |
| ARGoS | Physics-based simulator designed to simulate robot swarms |
| MoveIt | Robotic manipulation platform for ROS 2 |
| OpenRTM-aist | Component-oriented development of robot systems |
| The Player Project | Cross-platform robot device interface & server |
| Urbi | Universal Robot Body Interface |
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