ROS VS yarp

Compare ROS vs yarp and see what are their differences.

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ROS yarp
82 3
2,602 493
2.3% 1.2%
2.6 9.6
about 1 month ago 7 days ago
Python C++
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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ROS

Posts with mentions or reviews of ROS. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-11.
  • Getting into Robotics as a Software Engineer
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Feb 2024
    Robotics is a broad field and is a confluence of many specialties: mechanical engineering, hardware engineering, software engineering, control, machine learning, computer vision, anything in between is a good entrance.

    Coming from software, if you are interested, I would suggest either:

    - Backend platform development (Python, C++ as main programming languages with a strong focus on ROS[1]).

    - Frontend development (nothing too different from what's out there).

    As small projects I would suggest playing with ROS to learn it and getting a running simulation with a simple robot that you can teleoperate, most of the stack already exists, it's just connecting everything together [2].

    Another venue is open source contribution [1] to get known within the community and potentially attract interest from companies. ROS has multiple packages, from cloud infrastructure to drivers and simulation, if you see anything there you could contribute to, they will gladly take contributions.

    In general robotics greatly benefits of good technologies from other areas, if there is a tool we use you believe could be better or a lack of good tooling in a specific area, it will get noticed.

    So this would be my suggested path: learn C++/Python if you're not familiar with, learn ROS and watch which specialties appear more often in robot related jos posts [3]. If you are really invested, maybe go to a robotics conference as ROSCon to meet other enthusiasts, which companies are engaged with the community, etc.

    Good luck!

    Note: not everything robot related is done in ROS, but it's almost a standard within the field save for a few exceptions.

    [1]: https://www.ros.org/

  • How do I start robotics as a teen with no money?
    2 projects | /r/robotics | 5 Jul 2023
    ROS is an operating system designed for robotics (it can be run many different ways) it includes simulations for many robots (including sensors etc) and you can even design your own fully inside the software. https://www.ros.org/
  • C++ Project Ideas?
    4 projects | /r/Cplusplus | 4 Jul 2023
    Robotics with ROS https://www.ros.org/ (You can do a lot with simulators and don't require actual HW)
  • Best practices in creating a Rust API for a C++ library? Seeking advice from those who've done it before.
    7 projects | /r/rust | 26 May 2023
    In Robotics, the Open Motion Planning Library (OMPL) is a popular library for multi-dimensional motion planning, and is used by ROS and other robotics-related software. There are no Rust bindings to OMPL (though there is Rust support for software like ROS), and the library is written almost exclusively in C++. There are Python bindings, but those are generated using Py++. The header files throughout OMPL are C++ header files, not C, as they contain namespaces, classes, etc.
  • [ANN] NASA's Ogma 1.0.9
    2 projects | /r/haskell | 21 May 2023
    [3] https://www.ros.org/
  • Student looking to contribute to open source
    7 projects | /r/opensource | 4 Apr 2023
    +1 to the other comments recommending Google summer of code. If you’re interested in robotics, you might want to check out the ROS project: https://www.ros.org/
  • Any actually useful uses for Raspberry Pi and alternative sbc?
    11 projects | /r/homelab | 24 Mar 2023
    You're looking for something more unique? Have you looked into robotics? Eg: https://www.ros.org/
  • [ANN] NASA's Ogma -- now with FPrime support
    7 projects | /r/haskell | 23 Mar 2023
    [3] https://www.ros.org/
  • How to get started with ROS
    2 projects | /r/ROS | 13 Feb 2023
    I am taking a course on Robotics this semester. I don't know anything about it and I am asked to download and demonstrate ROS in the next lecture. I saw some videos and have a basic idea about what it is. A video directed me to this page but what do I do now? I have Windows 11 on my laptop and most sites I saw, talked about ROS on Linux. How should I start now?
  • Who are using fish shell from long time? I've started in 2019 and wrote this blog in 2020
    2 projects | /r/fishshell | 28 Dec 2022
    I don't remember exactly but with this PR from May 2013 I was trying to get support for the fish shell into ROS. Didn't succeed because fish wasn't an official Ubuntu package yet but I did get my work in later.

yarp

Posts with mentions or reviews of yarp. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-04.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ROS and yarp you can also consider the following projects:

MRPT - :zap: The Mobile Robot Programming Toolkit (MRPT)

Robotics Library (RL) - The Robotics Library (RL) is a self-contained C++ library for rigid body kinematics and dynamics, motion planning, and control.

DART - DART: Dynamic Animation and Robotics Toolkit

PCL - Point Cloud Library (PCL)

moveit - :robot: The MoveIt motion planning framework

OpenCV - Open Source Computer Vision Library

FCL - Flexible Collision Library

AIKIDO - Artificial Intelligence for Kinematics, Dynamics, and Optimization

gazebo-classic - Gazebo classic. For the latest version, see https://github.com/gazebosim/gz-sim

johnny-five - JavaScript Robotics and IoT programming framework, developed at Bocoup.

ImageAI - A python library built to empower developers to build applications and systems with self-contained Computer Vision capabilities

Keras - Deep Learning for humans