Architecture and Design

• Unix philosophy - Set of cultural norms for developing software
• yed - yEd is a powerful desktop application that can be used to quickly and effectively generate high-quality diagrams
• rqt_graph - rqt_graph provides a GUI plugin for visualizing the ROS computation graph
• robmosys - RobMoSys envisions an integrated approach built on top of the current code-centric robotic platforms, by applying model-driven methods and tools
• yed_py - Generates graphML that can be opened in yEd
• Plantuml - Web application to generate UML diagrams on-the-fly in your live documentation
• rqt_launchtree - An RQT plugin for hierarchical launchfile configuration introspection.
• cpp-dependencies - Tool to check C++ #include dependencies (dependency graphs created in .dot format)
• pydeps - Python Module Dependency graphs
• aztarna - a footprinting tool for robots.
• fossology - a toolkit you can run license, copyright and export control scans from the command line
• Papyrus for Robotics - is graphical editing tool for robotic applications that complies with the RobMoSys approach
• capella - Comprehensive, extensible and field-proven MBSE tool and method

Awesome

Safety

• awesome-ros2 - A curated list of awesome Robot Operating System Version 2.0 (ROS 2) resources and libraries.
• awesome-safety-critical - List of resources about programming practices for writing safety-critical software.
• awesome-embedded-linux - A curated list of awesome Embedded Linux resources

Behavior and Decision

SLAM

• Groot - Graphical Editor to create BehaviorTrees. Compliant with BehaviorTree.CPP
• BehaviorTree.CPP - Behavior Trees Library in C++
• ROS-Behavior-Tree - Behavior Trees Library for ROS
• RAFCON - Uses hierarchical state machines, featuring concurrent state execution, to represent robot programs
• ROSPlan - Generic framework for task planning in a ROS system

Coordination and Communication

• Agile Development - Manifesto for Agile Software Development
• Woost - Workflow Automation, Collaboration with Externals
• gitlab-triage - GitLab's issues and merge requests triage, automated!
• Gitflow - Makes parallel development very easy, by isolating new development from finished work
• DeepL - DeepL, an online translator that outperforms Google, Microsoft and Facebook
• Taiga - Agile Projectmanagment Tool
• Kanboard - Minimalistic Kanban Board
• Gitlab - Simple Selfhosted Gitlab Server with Docker
• Gogs - Aims to build a simple, stable and extensible self-hosted Git service that can be setup in the most painless way
• Wekan - Meteor based Kanban Board
• JIRA API - Python Library for REST API of Jira
• Taiga API - Python Library for REST API of Taiga
• Chronos-Timetracker - Desktop client for JIRA. Track time, upload worklogs without a hassle
• Grge - Grge is a daemon and command line utility augmenting GitLab
• Helpy - is a modern, open source helpdesk customer support application
• ONLYOFFICE - is a free open source collaborative system developed to manage documents, projects, customer relationship and email correspondence, all in one place.
• Ganttlab - The easy to use, fully functional Gantt chart for GitLab and GitHub.
• discourse - A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple

Development Environment

Build and Deploy

• ryo-iso - is a modern ISO builder that streamlines the process of deploying a complete robot operating system from a yaml config file
• bloom - A release automation tool which makes releasing catkin packages easier
• superflore - An extended platform release manager for Robot Operating System
• catkin_tools - Command line tools for working with catkin
• industrial_ci - Easy continuous integration repository for ROS repositories
• ros_gitlab_ci - contains helper scripts and instructions on how to use Continuous Integration (CI) for ROS projects hosted on a GitLab instance.
• gitlab-runner - runs tests and sends the results to GitLab
• colcon-core - command line tool to improve the workflow of building, testing and using multiple software packages
• gitlab-release - Simple python3 script to upload files (from ci) to the current projects release (tag)
• clang - This is a compiler front-end for the C family of languages
• catkin_virtualenv - Bundle python requirements in a catkin package via virtualenv
• aptly - Debian repository management tool
• cross_compile - Assets used for ROS2 cross-compilation
• docker_images - Official Docker images maintained by OSRF on ROS(2) and Gazebo
• robot_upstart - presents a suite of scripts to assist with launching background ROS processes on Ubuntu Linux PCs
• robot_systemd - units for managing startup and shutdown of roscore and roslaunch
• network_autoconfig - automatic configuration of ROS networking for most use cases without impacting usage that require manual configuration.
• robot_systemd - units for managing startup and shutdown of roscore and roslaunch
• network_autoconfig - automatic configuration of ROS networking for most use cases without impacting usage that require manual configuration.

Code and Run

• Sublime - A sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose
• ROS IDEs - This page collects experience and advice on using integrated development environments (IDEs) with ROS.
• Vim-ros - Vim plugin for ROS development
• Visual Studio Code - Code editor for edit-build-debug cycle.
• atom - Hackable text editor for the 21st century
• Teletype - Share your workspace with team members and collaborate on code in real time in Atom
• ade-cli - The ADE Development Environment (ADE) uses docker and Gitlab to manage environments of per project development tools and optional volume images
• recipe-wizard - A Dockerfile generator for running OpenGL (GLX) applications with nvidia-docker2, CUDA, ROS, and Gazebo on a remote headless server system
• Jupyter ROS - Jupyter widget helpers for ROS, the Robot Operating System
• ros_rqt_plugin - The ROS Qt Creator Plug-in for Python
• jedi - Autocompletion and static analysis library for python
• roslibpy - Python ROS Bridge library allows to use Python and IronPython to interact with ROS, the open-source robotic middleware.
• pybind11 - Seamless operability between C++11 and Python
• Sourcetrail - free and open-source cross-platform source explorer
• rebound - Command-line tool that instantly fetches Stack Overflow results when an exception is thrown
• xeus-cling - Jupyter kernel for the C++ programming language
• kite - Use machine learning to give you
• ROS IDEs - This page collects experience and advice on using integrated development environments (IDEs) with ROS.
• TabNine - The all-language autocompleter

Launch and Monitor

• rosmon - ROS node launcher & monitoring daemon
• multimaster_fkie - GUI-based management environment that is very useful to manage ROS-launch configurations and control running nodes

Lint and Format

• cppcheck - Static analysis of C/C++ code
• hadolint - Dockerfile linter, validate inline bash, written in Haskell
• shellcheck - a static analysis tool for shell scripts
• catkin_lint - catkin_lint checks package configurations for the catkin build system of ROS.
• black - The uncompromising Python code formatter
• pydocstyle - pydocstyle is a static analysis tool for checking compliance with Python docstring conventions
• haros - H(igh) A(ssurance) ROS - Static analysis of ROS application code.

Template

• ROS - Template for ROS node standardization in C++
• Launch - Templates on how to create launch files for larger projects
• URDF - Examples on how to create Unified Robot Description Format (URDF) for different kinds of robots
• Python - Style guide to be followed in writing Python code for ROS
• Docker - The Dockerfile in the minimal-ade project shows a minimal example of how to create a custom base image
• Bash - A bash scripting template incorporating best practices & several useful functions

Unit and Integration Test

• UnitTesting - This page lays out the rationale, best practices, and policies for writing and running unit tests and integration tests for ROS.
• googletest - Google's C++ test framework
• osrf_testing_tools_cpp - contains testing tools for C++, and is used in OSRF projects.
• pytest - The pytest framework makes it easy to write small tests, yet scales to support complex functional testing
• doctest - The fastest feature-rich C++11/14/17/20 single-header testing framework for unit tests and TDD

Version Control

• meld - Meld is a visual diff and merge tool that helps you compare files, directories, and version controlled projects
• tig - Text-mode interface for git
• gitg - is a graphical user interface for git
• git-cola - The highly caffeinated Git GUI
• python-gitlab - is a Python package providing access to the GitLab server API.
• bfg-repo-cleaner - Removes large or troublesome blobs like git-filter-branch does, but faster.
• nbdime - Tools for diffing and merging of Jupyter notebooks.
• semantic-release - Fully automated version management and package publishing
• go-semrel-gitab - Automate version management for Gitlab
• dive - A tool for exploring each layer in a docker image

Documentation and Presentation

• Typora - A Minimalist Markdown Editor
• undraw - Free Professional business SVGs easy to customize
• inkscape - Inkscape is a professional vector graphics editor for Linux, Windows and macOS
• Markor - A Simple Markdown Editor for your Android Device
• Pandoc - Universal markup converter
• Yaspeller - Command line tool for spell checking
• Doxygen - Doxygen is the de facto standard tool for generating documentation from annotated C++ sources
• Word-to-Markdown - A ruby gem to liberate content from Microsoft Word document
• carbon - Share beautiful images of your source code
• ASCIIMATICS - Create a GIF for your command line examples
• Hugo-Webslides - This is a Hugo template to create WebSlides presentation using markdown.
• jupyter2slides - Cloud Native Presentation Slides with Jupyter Notebook + Reveal.js
• patat - Terminal-based presentations using Pandoc
• github-changelog-generator - Automatically generate change log from your tags, issues, labels and pull requests on GitHub.
• GitLab-Release-Note-Generator - A Gitlab release note generator that generates release note on latest tag
• Sphinx - is a tool that makes it easy to create intelligent and beautiful documentation for Python projects
• OCRmyPDF - adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched
• Reveal-Hugo - A Hugo theme for Reveal.js that makes authoring and customization a breeze. With it, you can turn any properly-formatted Hugo content into a HTML presentation.
• Gerrit - is a code review and project management tool for Git based projects

Framework

• ROS - ROS (Robot Operating System) provides libraries and tools to help software developers create robot applications
• Autoware.ai - Autoware.AI is the world's first "All-in-One" open-source software for autonomous driving technology
• AutowareAuto - It is a clean slate rewrite of Autoware. Autoware.Auto applies best-in-class software engineering.
• ROS2 - is the next generation robot operating system, and is actively being developed to fully replace ROS1 in the near future
• OpenPilot - Open Source Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) and Lane Keeping Assist System (LKAS)
• Apollo - High performance, flexible architecture which accelerates the development, testing, and deployment of Autonomous Vehicles.
• astrobee - Astrobee is a free-flying robot designed to operate as a payload inside the International Space Station (ISS).
• Stanford Self Driving Car Code - Stanford Code From Cars That Entered DARPA Grand Challenges

Hardware

Calibration and Transformation

• tf2 - transform library, which lets the user keep track of multiple coordinate frames over time
• lidar_align - A simple method for finding the extrinsic calibration between a 3D lidar and a 6-dof pose sensor
• kalibr - The Kalibr visual-inertial calibration toolbox
• Calibnet - Self-Supervised Extrinsic Calibration using 3D Spatial Transformer Networks
• lidar_camera_calibration - ROS package to find a rigid-body transformation between a LiDAR and a camera
• ILCC - Reflectance Intensity Assisted Automatic and Accurate Extrinsic Calibration of 3D LiDAR
• easy_handeye - Simple, straighforward ROS library for hand-eye calibration
• imu_utils - A ROS package tool to analyze the IMU performance
• kalibr_allan - IMU Allan standard deviation charts for use with Kalibr and inertial kalman filters
• pyquaternion - is a full-featured Python module for representing and using quaternions
• tf2 - transform library, which lets the user keep track of multiple coordinate frames over time

Version Control

• PandaPower - An easy to use open source tool for power system modeling, analysis and optimization with a high degree of automation.
• kicad - A Cross Platform and Open Source Electronics Design Automation Suite
• kicad - A Cross Platform and Open Source Electronics Design Automation Suite
• HRIM - An information model for robot hardware
• URDF - Repository for Unified Robot Description Format (URDF) parsing code
• phobos - An add-on for Blender allowing to create URDF, SDF and SMURF robot models in a WYSIWYG environment.
• solidworks_urdf_exporter - SolidWorks to URDF Exporter
• FreeCAD - Your own 3D parametric modeler
• PcbDraw - Convert your KiCAD board into a nice looking 2D drawing suitable for pinout diagrams
• kicad - A Cross Platform and Open Source Electronics Design Automation Suite
• kicad - A Cross Platform and Open Source Electronics Design Automation Suite

Interaction

Command Line

• terminator - The goal of this project is to produce a useful tool for arranging terminals
• dotfiles of cornerman - Powerful zsh and vim dotfiles
• dotbot - A tool that bootstraps your dotfiles
• prompt-hjem - A beautiful zsh prompt
• ag - A code-searching tool similar to ack, but faster.
• fzf - A command-line fuzzy finder
• pkgtop - Interactive package manager and resource monitor designed for the GNU/Linux.
• gocui - Minimalist Go package aimed at creating Console User Interfaces.
• TerminalImageViewer - Small C++ program to display images in a (modern) terminal using RGB ANSI codes and unicode block graphics characters
• rosshow - Visualize ROS topics inside a terminal with Unicode/ASCII art
• python-prompt-toolkit - Library for building powerful interactive command line applications in Python
• guake - Drop-down terminal for GNOME
• wemux - Multi-User Tmux Made Easy
• tmuxp - tmux session manager built on libtmux
• mapscii - World map renderer for your console
• bat - A cat(1) clone with wings.

Data Visualization and Mission Control

• guacamole - clientless remote desktop gateway. It supports standard protocols like VNC, RDP, and SSH
• rqt_bag - provides a GUI plugin for displaying and replaying ROS bag files.
• webviz - web-based visualization libraries like rviz
• plotly.py - An open-source, interactive graphing library for Python
• PlotJuggler - The timeseries visualization tool that you deserve
• bokeh - Interactive Data Visualization in the browser, from Python
• voila - From Jupyter notebooks to standalone web applications and dashboards
• Pangolin - Pangolin is a lightweight portable rapid development library for managing OpenGL display / interaction and abstracting video input.
• kepler.gl - Kepler.gl is a powerful open source geospatial analysis tool for large-scale data sets.
• qgis_ros - Access bagged and live topic data in a highly featured GIS environment
• openmct - A web based mission control framework.
• web_video_server - HTTP Streaming of ROS Image Topics in Multiple Formats
• rvizweb - RVizWeb provides a convenient way of building and launching a web application with features similar to RViz
• marvros - MAVLink to ROS gateway with proxy for Ground Control Station
• streetscape.gl - Streetscape.gl is a toolkit for visualizing autonomous and robotics data in the XVIZ protocol.
• rviz_cloud_annotation - Point cloud annotation tool based on RViz
• PixelAnnotationTool - Annotate quickly images
• point_labeler - Tool for labeling of a single point clouds or a stream of point clouds
• CloudCompare - CloudCompare is a 3D point cloud (and triangular mesh) processing software.
• Potree - WebGL point cloud viewer for large datasets
• ParaView - VTK-based Data Analysis and Visualization Application
• mapviz - Modular ROS visualization tool for 2D data.
• rviz_cinematographer - Easy to use tools to create and edit trajectories for the rviz camera.
• rviz_visual_tools - C++ API wrapper for displaying shapes and meshes in Rviz
• tf_keyboard_cal - Allows manual control of a TF through the keyboard or interactive markers
• octave - provides a convenient command line interface for solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically, and for performing other numerical experiments using a language that is mostly compatible with Matlab.
• LabelImg - LabelImg is a graphical image annotation tool and label object bounding boxes in images
• cvat - Powerful and efficient Computer Vision Annotation Tool (CVAT)