RobotikRoute

RobotikRoute is an open-source software framework for autonomous mobile robots, providing a modular platform for navigation, route planning, and motion control in indoor and outdoor settings. It aims to generalize common robotics tasks across different robot platforms by offering interoperable components for perception, mapping, localization, planning, and control. The project emphasizes ROS2 compatibility, standard interfaces, and a plugin-based architecture that lets developers replace or extend modules without modifying core code. Supported sensors typically include LIDAR, stereo or depth cameras, IMUs, and GNSS, with interfaces to common simulators and real hardware.

The core components include a perception module for sensor fusion, a mapping/localization stack (including SLAM variants), a global planner for waypoint generation, and a local planner or controller for motion execution. The framework supports multiple planning strategies, such as graph-based routes and sampling-based methods, and includes safety features like obstacle avoidance and emergency stop handling.

RobotikRoute originated in 2019 as a collaborative project among researchers and developers in academia and industry and is maintained by a community-driven governance model. It is released under an open-source license to encourage experimentation, academic use, and prototyping in commercial settings.

The ecosystem includes documentation, tutorials, simulation tools, and a set of ready-to-run demos for warehouse robots, service robots, and autonomous vehicles. Limitations include the need for substantial computational resources for real-time SLAM and planning in large-scale environments, and the requirement for thorough validation before deployment in safety-critical operations.