PathPlanner
- Software
- Navigation and mapping
- Tool
PathPlanner is a motion profile generator for FRC robots, used to design robot paths and autonomous routines with a desktop app and a robot-side library.
Source on GitHub: github.com/mjansen4857/pathplanner (opens in a new tab). Facts read at commit e02bbf3 (opens in a new tab).
Licenses
- Code
- MIT (opens in a new tab)
Read by Robotheca from LICENSE (opens in a new tab) (MIT) at commit e02bbf3 (opens in a new tab), on 16 Oct 2026.
- Commercial use
- Yes
What it does
- Paths are drawn with Bézier curves, letting the user fine-tune the exact shape of each path.
- Holonomic mode separates the robot's rotation from its direction of travel.
- Event markers placed along a path can trigger other code while the robot follows it.
- Autonomous routines can be built from modular combinations of other paths.
- A robot-side vendor library generates paths and provides path-following commands and controllers.
- Paths and autos can be regenerated on the robot without redeploying code, and pathfinding is available through AD*.
Written by Robotheca from the project's README (opens in a new tab) at commit e02bbf3.
Getting started
- Difficulty
- Beginner
- How to start
- The project's website (opens in a new tab)
Maintenance
- Status
- Maintained: a commit in the last 12 months
- Newest commit
- 12 Jan 2026 on main
- Latest release
- PathPlanner v2026.1.2 (12 Jan 2026)
Checked on GitHub on 16 Oct 2026.
Links
Robots that can run it
No robot on Robotheca is linked to it yet. Links come from a robot's robot.yaml, from its dependency files read as text, or from Robotheca's editors.
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