pyroboplan
- Software
- Robot arms and industry
- Library
An educational Python library for manipulator motion planning, built on the Pinocchio bindings for robot kinematics and dynamics. It is meant for learning, not for serious planning and control work.
Source on GitHub: github.com/sea-bass/pyroboplan (opens in a new tab). Facts read at commit 71ac2c7 (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 71ac2c7 (opens in a new tab), on 16 Oct 2026.
- Commercial use
- Yes
What it does
- Provides motion planning for robot manipulators, including RRT-based planning with trajectory execution.
- Supports Cartesian motion planning, as shown in the project's example animations.
- Uses the Pinocchio Python bindings to model robot kinematics and dynamics.
- Installable from PyPI or from source with pip, with an optional virtual environment setup script.
- Full documentation and a blog post and video presentation on motion planning are linked from the project.
Written by Robotheca from the project's README (opens in a new tab) at commit 71ac2c7.
Getting started
- Difficulty
- Beginner
- How to start
- The project's website (opens in a new tab)
Maintenance
- Status
- Active: a commit in the last 90 days
- Newest commit
- 5 Oct 2026 on main
- Latest release
- 1.3.1 (1 Jun 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.
Robotheca lists software as a reference: nothing is hosted or run here, and every fact links to where it was read.