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The Player Project creates Free Software that enables research in robot and sensor systems. The Player robot server is probably the most widely used robot control interface in the world^{[citation needed]}. It supports a wide variety of hardware,^[1] also C, C++ and Python programming languages are officially supported, Java, Ada, Ruby, Octave, and others are supported by third parties. Its simulation backends, Stage and Gazebo, are also very widely used.

Released under the GNU General Public License, all code from the Player Project is free to use, distribute and modify. Player is developed by an international team of robotics researchers^[2] and used at labs around the world.

Contents 1 Software 1.1 Packages from the Player Project 1.2 See also 1.3 References 1.3.1 Wiki references 1.3.2 Other references 1.4 External links

[edit] Software

[edit] Packages from the Player Project

• Player : The robot server.
• Player plugins
  • Stage 2D multi-robot simulator.
  • Gazebo 3D multi-robot simulator.

[edit] See also

• Logo (programming language) and RoboMind
• Player/Stage Project
• Turtle (robot)

[edit] References

[edit] Wiki references

• http://playerstage.sourceforge.net/wiki/Main_Page

[edit] Other references

1. ^ http://playerstage.sourceforge.net/doc/Player-cvs/player/supported_hardware.html
2. ^ http://sourceforge.net/project/memberlist.php?group_id=42445

[edit] External links

• The 'official' project homepage and wiki.