Open Robotic Controllers

Abstract

This paper collects information about actual status and future trends of research and development in sphere of open robotic controllers and pointing out the importance of its advances in research, academic and commercial field. Mainly two different approaches were described there. First of them are Hardware In the Loop simulators, which are usually programmed with wellknown commercial products from academic field. On the other side, in comparison with commercial products, are open source robotic middleware which is freely available and it is managed by community of researchers and enthusiasts. The main advantage of this approach are large community support, but software may be unstable and there should be also compatibility issues between versions.