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CLUSTER PLANNING-ROBOT-LIBRARY · 8 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2017-11-29

Robot motion planning libraries

This cluster comprises robot motion planning and pathfinding libraries, spanning global planners (A*, Theta*, lattice search), trajectory generation (Gaussian processes, motion profiles), and local obstacle avoidance. Their dated entries before the index start run from 2017-11 to 2023-10, with a sparse early period (2017–2020) and a small concentration of three entries in 2023-03. Traction leaders are meta-pathfinder-ai, pathplanner-beta-bin, and ros2-humble-nav2-theta-star-planner, each with zero stars, indicating minimal community adoption.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

NOV 2017: 1APR 2020: 1SEP 2020: 1MAR 2023: 3OCT 2023: 1AUG 2026: 1
NOV 2017AUG 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 1 ai-built · 3 hand-coded · 4 unlabelled

Operator · 7 open source · 1 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 8 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01meta-pathfinder-ai0★1 moliveai-builtAI-powered pathfinding tool for finding optimal routes.
  2. 02pathplanner-beta-bin0★3 yrabandonedliveopen sourceMotion profile generator for FRC robots that helps teams plan paths and trajectories for autonomous operations.
  3. 03ros2-humble-nav2-theta-star-planner0★3 yrabandonedliveopen sourceLibrary implementing Theta* global path planning for mobile robot navigation.
  4. 04ros2-humble-moveit-planners-ompl0★3 yrabandonedliveopen sourceInterface package that connects MoveIt with OMPL for robot motion planning.
  5. 05ros2-humble-nav2-smac-planner0★3 yrabandonedliveopen sourceLibrary providing global path planning algorithms for mobile robots using A* and hybrid lattice search.
  6. 06gpmp20★5 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceMotion planning system that generates smooth trajectories for robots using Gaussian processes.
  7. 07ros-noetic-base-local-planner0★6 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceLibrary for robot navigation providing local path planning and obstacle avoidance methods.
  8. 08sbpl0★7 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceLibrary implementing lattice-based path planning using A* search for mobile robotics.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.