Top C++ Robotics repositories on GitHub
Control, perception, simulation, and ROS-ecosystem code. Filtered to projects whose primary language is C++.
Ranked by stars across 695 C++ repositories tagged robotics. Refreshed daily.
- 1ArduPilot/ardupilot★ 16,318 · ⑂ 21,731
ArduPlane, ArduCopter, ArduRover, ArduSub source
- arducopter
- ardupilot
- arduplane
- ardurover
- ardusub
- uav
- 2google-deepmind/mujoco★ 16,059 · ⑂ 1,921
Multi-Joint dynamics with Contact. A general purpose physics simulator.
- robotics
- physics
- mujoco
- 3bulletphysics/bullet3★ 14,845 · ⑂ 3,109
Bullet Physics SDK: real-time collision detection and multi-physics simulation for VR, games, visual effects, robotics, machine learning etc.
- simulation
- robotics
- kinematics
- virtual-reality
- reinforcement-learning
- computer-animation
- 4dusty-nv/jetson-inference★ 9,032 · ⑂ 3,117
Hello AI World guide to deploying deep-learning inference networks and deep vision primitives with TensorRT and NVIDIA Jetson.
- deep-learning
- inference
- computer-vision
- embedded
- image-recognition
- object-detection
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- 5cartographer-project/cartographer★ 8,001 · ⑂ 2,352
Cartographer is a system that provides real-time simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) in 2D and 3D across multiple platforms and sensor configurations.
- slam
- mapping
- localization
- robotics
- self-driving
- 6PetoiCamp/OpenCat-Quadruped-Robot★ 5,539 · ⑂ 653
An open source quadruped robot pet framework for developing Boston Dynamics-style four-legged robots that are perfect for STEM, coding & robotics education, IoT robotics applications, AI-enhanced robotics application services, research, and DIY robotics kit development.
- quadruped
- walking
- legged-robot
- arduino
- stem
- simulation
- 7ros-navigation/navigation2★ 5,003 · ⑂ 2,012
ROS 2 Navigation Framework and System
- ros2
- navigation
- robotics
- 8cyberbotics/webots★ 4,749 · ⑂ 2,096
Webots Robot Simulator
- robotics
- robot
- simulator
- simulation
- ros
- physics-engine
- 9BehaviorTree/BehaviorTree.CPP★ 4,281 · ⑂ 871
Behavior Trees Library in C++. Batteries included.
- behaviortree
- ai
- robotics
- games
- coordination
- ros
- 10RobotLocomotion/drake★ 4,243 · ⑂ 1,391
Model-based design and verification for robotics.
- robotics
- drake
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- 11introlab/rtabmap★ 4,079 · ⑂ 979
RTAB-Map library and standalone application
- slam
- scanning
- mapping
- localization
- project-tango
- robotics
- 12facebookresearch/habitat-sim★ 3,853 · ⑂ 556
A flexible, high-performance 3D simulator for Embodied AI research.
- ai
- computer-vision
- robotics
- simulator
- sim2real
- cplusplus
- 13stack-of-tasks/pinocchio★ 3,838 · ⑂ 593
A fast and flexible implementation of Rigid Body Dynamics algorithms and their analytical derivatives
- robotics
- dynamics
- analytical-derivatives
- kinematics
- c-plus-plus
- rigid-body-dynamics
- 14ai-winter/ros_motion_planning★ 3,609 · ⑂ 514
Motion planning and Navigation of AGV/AMR：ROS planner plugin implementation of A*, JPS, D*, LPA*, D* Lite, Theta*, RRT, RRT*, RRT-Connect, Informed RRT*, ACO, PSO, Voronoi, PID, LQR, MPC, DWA, APF, Pure Pursuit etc.
- astar
- jump-point-search
- motion-planning
- ros
- dstar-lite
- rrt
- 15petercorke/robotics-toolbox-python★ 3,563 · ⑂ 650
Robotics Toolbox for Python
- python
- robotics
- robotics-toolbox
- robotics-simulation
- robotics-control
- kinematics
- 16rpng/open_vins★ 3,168 · ⑂ 949
An open source platform for visual-inertial navigation research.
- visual-inertial-odometry
- slam
- msckf
- sensor-calibration
- ekf-localization
- research-platform
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- 17projectchrono/chrono★ 3,141 · ⑂ 655
High-performance C++ library for multiphysics and multibody dynamics simulations
- simulation
- physics-simulation
- modeling
- robotics
- physics-engine
- multibody-dynamics
- 18eProsima/Fast-DDS★ 2,946 · ⑂ 976
The most complete DDS - Proven: Plenty of success cases. Looking for commercial support? Contact info@eprosima.com
- dds
- ros2
- rtps
- middleware
- cpp
- omg
- 19ros-planning/navigation★ 2,662 · ⑂ 1,833
ROS Navigation stack. Code for finding where the robot is and how it can get somewhere else.
- ros
- navigation
- robotics
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