Player Project

Player Project
Developer(s)Brian Gerkey, Richard Vaughan, Andrew Howard, Nathan Koenig
Initial release2000; 24 years ago (2000)
Stable release
3.0.2 / June 28, 2010; 14 years ago (2010-06-28)
Operating systemLinux, Solaris, BSD, macOS
TypeRobotics suite
LicenseGNU General Public License
Websiteplayerstage.sourceforge.net

The Player Project (formerly Player/Stage Project) creates free and open-source software for research into robotics and sensor systems.[1] Its components include the Player network server and the Stage platform robotics simulators. Although accurate statistics are hard to obtain, Player is one of the most popular open-source robot interfaces in research and post-secondary education.[2]

  1. ^ Gerkey, B.; Vaughan, R.; Howard, A. (2003). The Player/Stage Project: Tools for Multi-Robot and Distributed Sensor Systems. Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Robotics. pp. 317–323.
  2. ^ Collet, T. H. J.; MacDonald, B. A.; Gerkey, B. (2005). "Player 2.0: Toward a practical robot programming framework". Proceedings of the Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation (ACRA).