- Player Project
Infobox Software
name = Player Project
caption = A Pioneer 3-AT robot in the Gazebo 3D simulation environment.
latest_release_version = Player 2.11
latest_release_date =June 16 ,2008
developer =Brian Gerkey , Richard Vaughan, Andrew Howard, and Nathan Koenig
operating_system =Linux , Solaris,BSD ,Mac OS X
genre =Robotics suite
license =GNU General Public License
website = [http://playerstage.sourceforge.net/ Official Webpage]The Player Project (formerly the Player/Stage Project or Player/Stage/Gazebo Project) is a project to create
free software for research intorobotics andsensor systems. Its components include the "Player" network server and "Stage" and "Gazebo" robot platform simulators. Although accurate statistics are hard to obtain, Player is probably the most-used robot interface in research and post-secondary education. Most of the major intelligent robotics journals and conferences regularly publish papers featuring real and simulated robot experiments using Player, Stage and Gazebo.These run on
POSIX -compatibleoperating systems , includingLinux ,Mac OS X , Solaris and theBSD variants; a port toMicrosoft Windows is planned. The project was founded in 2000 byBrian Gerkey , Richard Vaughan and Andrew Howard and is widely used in roboticsresearch andeducation . [ [http://playerstage.sourceforge.net/wiki/PlayerUsers PlayerUsers - Player ] ] It releases its software under theGNU General Public License with documentation under theGNU Free Documentation License .Features include: robot platform independence across a wide variety of hardware, [ [http://playerstage.sourceforge.net/doc/Player-cvs/player/supported_hardware.html Player Manual ] ] support for a number of programming languages including C,
C++ , Java,Tcl , and Python, a minimal and flexible design, support for multiple devices on the same interface, andon-the-fly server configuration.Being
GPL andopen source , Player Project isfree in both senses (free as in free-lunch and free as in free-speech).Microsoft Robotics Studio , released in 2007, offers many similar functions, but is Windows-only, and has different licensing conditions (proprietary, notGPL ). Future and current costing not known.URBI , released in 2003, also offers similar functions. It is cross-platform and interfaced with Player. Licensing is a dualGPL /proprietary approach. A URBI for Webots license currently costs about 1000euro s as of 2008.See also
*
DotGNU
*Microsoft Robotics Studio
*Webots
*URBI
*Turtle (robot)
*RoSta References
External links
* Project [http://playerstage.sourceforge.net website] and [http://playerstage.sourceforge.net/wiki/Main_Page wiki] .
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