petercorke/robotics-toolbox-python

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A Python library providing tools for robot manipulator kinematics, dynamics, Jacobians, and trajectory generation, built on NumPy and SciPy. It serves as a high-productivity framework for robotics research and education.

Use cases

• compute forward and inverse kinematics for robot arms
• simulate robot manipulator dynamics
• generate trajectories for robotic motion
• calculate Jacobians and Hessians for robot control
• teach robotics concepts in Python
• prototype motion planning algorithms

When to choose

• you need a Python toolbox for robot manipulator modeling and simulation
• you want an educational or research-oriented robotics library with rich documentation
• you need kinematics, dynamics, and trajectory generation in one package

When to avoid

• you need real-time control of physical hardware with hard timing constraints
• you require full physics simulation with contact and collision dynamics like Gazebo or MuJoCo
• you work primarily with mobile robots rather than manipulators

Facets

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simulation machine-learning math graphics robotics simulation education python cross-platform kinematics dynamics motion-planning trajectory-generation robot-manipulators jacobian spatial-math algorithms

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