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RoboPlan

  • Software
  • Robot arms and industry
  • Library

RoboPlan is an experimental C++ robot motion planning library built on Pinocchio, offering inverse kinematics, RRT, and Cartesian path planners.

Made by open-planning.

Source on GitHub: github.com/open-planning/roboplan (opens in a new tab). Facts read at commit 8a84cd2 (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 8a84cd2 (opens in a new tab), on 16 Oct 2026.

Commercial use
Yes

What it does

  • Provides a set of motion planning packages built on the Pinocchio library.
  • Includes a simple inverse kinematics solver and a task-based optimal inverse kinematics solver.
  • Includes a Rapidly-exploring Random Tree based motion planner.
  • Includes a Cartesian planner for following task-space paths.
  • Includes a wrapper around TOPP-RA for trajectory timing.

Written by Robotheca from the project's README (opens in a new tab) at commit 8a84cd2.

Getting started

Difficulty
Intermediate

Maintenance

Status
Active: a commit in the last 90 days
Newest commit
16 Oct 2026 on main
Latest release
0.7.0 (20 Sept 2026)

Checked on GitHub on 16 Oct 2026.

Robots on Robotheca that use 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.