# petercorke/robotics-toolbox-matlab

Robotics Toolbox for MATLAB

Repository: https://github.com/petercorke/robotics-toolbox-matlab
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/robotics-toolbox-matlab
Language: MATLAB
License: LGPL-2.1
License Family: copyleft
Topics: matlab, robotics, kinematics, dynamics, slam, motion-planning, mobile-robots, matlab-toolbox, jacobian, arm-robot, kalman-filter, rigid-body-dynamics, trajectory-generation
Last push: 2023-01-01T21:23:11+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4168, "days_push": 1340, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1551, forks 463 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:02.311880+00:00)

## What it is
A MATLAB toolbox providing robotics functionality including kinematics and dynamics of serial-link manipulators, mobile robot motion models, path planning, localization, and SLAM. It dates back to 1993 and is intended for teaching, research, and as a reference implementation of robotics algorithms.

## Use cases
- compute forward and inverse kinematics for robot arms
- simulate serial-link manipulator dynamics in MATLAB
- plan paths for mobile robots with PRM or RRT
- implement EKF localization and SLAM
- generate trajectories for robot joints
- teach robotics algorithms with readable source code
- model a quadrotor in Simulink

## When to choose
- you work in MATLAB and need robotics algorithms with readable source code
- you are teaching or learning robotics and want reference implementations
- you need classical algorithms (EKF SLAM, D*, PRM, RRT) for comparison
- you want models for well-known robots like the Puma 560 or UR arms

## When to avoid
- you need a commercially supported product (use MathWorks Robotics System Toolbox)
- you need real-time or computationally efficient production code
- you work outside MATLAB
- you need active development or new features

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: simulation, math, machine-learning
- domain: robotics, education, simulation
- platform: -
- tags: kinematics, dynamics, slam, motion-planning, trajectory-generation, kalman-filter, mobile-robots, serial-link-manipulators, simulink, algorithms, matlab

## Member repositories
- petercorke/robotics-toolbox-matlab (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:02.311880+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:30:16.770942+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/petercorke/robotics-toolbox-matlab (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:02.311880+00:00, sha 89e5ae1959ad)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.