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Ly0n/awesome-robotic-tooling
Tooling for professional robotic development in C++ and Python with a touch of ROS, autonomous driving and aerospace.
A well-organized awesome list covering the full stack of professional robotics development — build systems, simulation, SLAM, sensor processing, planning, and more. Skews heavily toward ROS/ROS2 and autonomous driving. Useful as a discovery tool when you're new to a domain or looking for alternatives to tools you already know.
Genuinely broad coverage that goes beyond just ROS wrappers — it includes safety standards (JSF AV rules, AUTOSAR), hardware-level tooling (CAN, sensor interfaces), and real ops concerns like systemd integration and embedded OS choices. The categorization is surgical enough to be navigable; finding 'Lidar and Point Cloud Processing' vs 'Localization and State Estimation' without scrolling forever is actually useful. Includes production-grade references like Apollo, OpenPilot, and F Prime alongside the academic stuff, so it's not purely research-oriented. The inclusion of safety-critical resources (fossology, doorstop, safe_numerics) is a differentiator — most robotics lists skip the compliance angle entirely.
Last commit was November 2023 — a significant gap in a field moving this fast. Several linked projects are already archived or unmaintained (Atom, Kite, Chronos-Timetracker), and there's no staleness indicator to warn you. The autonomous driving section has grown to dominate; someone doing mobile manipulation or surgical robotics will find the balance off. No opinions anywhere — it lists CARLA and AirSim side by side with no signal about which one the community actually uses in 2024, which is exactly the information you need when choosing.