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| Name | Objectives |
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| Orocos | “Develops a general purpose modular framework for robot and machine control” [53] |
| Pyro | “Provides a programming environment for easily exploring advanced topics in artificial intelligence and robotics without having to worry about the lowlevel details of the underlying hardware” [73] |
| Player | Provides a development framework supporting different hardware devices and common services needed by different robotic applications and transfers a controller from simulation to real robots with as little effort as possible |
| Orca | “Enables software reuse in robotics using component-based development” [3] |
| Miro | “Improves the software development process for mobile robots and enable interaction between robots and enterprise systems using the distributed object paradigm” [3] |
| OpenRTMaist | Provides efficient development for robotic systems by proposing a modular software structure platform and “simplifies the process of building robots by simply combining selected modules” [3] |
| ASEBA | “Allows distributed control and efficient resources utilization of robots with multiprocessors” [3] |
| MARIE | “Creates flexible distributed components that allows developers to share, reuse, and integrate new or existing software programs for rapid robotic application development” [3] and integrates other middleware in a single robot |
| RSCA | “Provides real-time support for robotic applications and to provide abstractions that makes robotic applications both portable and reusable on different hardware platforms” [3] |
| MRDS | Provides a robotic software platform supporting a wide variety of hardware devices and a set of useful tools that facilities the programming and debugging |
| OPROS | “Establishes a component based standard software platform for the robot which enables complicated functions to be developed easily by using the standardized components in the heterogeneous communication network” [46] |
| CLARAty | A reusable robotic framework to enable integration, maturation, and demonstration of advanced robotic technologies, from multiple institutions on NASA’s rover platforms in support of its technology programs (Mars and Intelligent Systems) |
| ROS | “Provides the operating system’s services such as “hardware abstraction, low-level device control, implementation of commonly-used functionality, message-passing between processes, and package management” [51] |
| SmartSoft | Implements sensorimotor systems based on communication patterns as central mean to achieve decoupling at various levels and supports model-driven software development |
| ERSP | “Provides cutting edge technologies for vision, navigation, and system development” [48] |
| Webots | “Provides a rapid prototyping environment for modeling, programming and simulating mobile robots” [50] |
| RoboFrame | Covers the special needs of autonomous lightweight robots such as dynamical locomotion and stability |
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