Robot Raconteur Companion
- Software
- Middleware
- Library
A C++ companion library with utilities for Robot Raconteur services, device info parsing, Eigen conversions, and standard service types.
Made by Robot Raconteur, United States (checked on github.com/robotraconteur (opens in a new tab)).
Source on GitHub: github.com/robotraconteur/robotraconteur_companion (opens in a new tab). Facts read at commit 4c96313 (opens in a new tab).
Licenses
- Code
- Apache-2.0 (opens in a new tab)
Read by Robotheca from LICENSE.txt (opens in a new tab) (Apache-2.0) at commit 4c96313 (opens in a new tab), on 16 Oct 2026.
- Commercial use
- Yes
What it does
- Provides compiled standard service type code for the Robot Raconteur standard robot definitions.
- Parses YAML files into device info structures for many device types such as robots, sensors, joysticks and cameras.
- Offers converters between Eigen types and Robot Raconteur types.
- Includes date/time converters and utilities for identifiers and UUIDs.
- Helps populate service attributes from device info during discovery.
- Provides functions to fill sensor data headers for loggable sensor data.
Written by Robotheca from the project's README (opens in a new tab) at commit 4c96313.
Getting started
- Difficulty
- Advanced
- How to start
- The project's README (opens in a new tab)
Maintenance
- Status
- Active: a commit in the last 90 days
- Newest commit
- 14 Sept 2026 on master
- Latest release
- v0.4.3 (22 May 2026)
Checked on GitHub on 16 Oct 2026.
Links
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.