OMPL

OMPL (Open Motion Planning Library) is a software package for computing motion plans using sampling-based algorithms. The content of the library is limited to motion planning algorithms, which means there is no environment specification, no collision detection or visualization. This is intentional as the library is designed to be easily integrated into systems that already provide the additional needed components.[1] For example, OMPL is integrated with ROS and MoveIt!. In 2012 OMPL won the Grand Prize at the Open Source Software World Challenge.

OMPL
Initial releaseOctober 15, 2010 (2010-10-15)
Stable release
1.5.0 / June 3, 2020 (2020-06-03)
Operating systemLinux, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows
LicenseBSD
Websiteompl.kavrakilab.org

Implementation

OMPL is written in C++ but also offers Python bindings. The library includes implementations for a large number of planning algorithms, all of these being implemented on top of the same base functionality. The base functionality OMPL provides for planners is thread safe. Adding new motion planning algorithms to OMPL is easy, thus facilitating comparisons between existing algorithms and evaluations of new ideas.

Target audience

Teaching

One of the design goals for OMPL is clarity of concepts used. This equates to having C++ classes that correspond to concepts found in the literature. Such a design facilitates using OMPL for education. Furthermore, the authors provide free course materials and assignments for use in conjunction with OMPL.[2][3]

Industrial use

The first use for OMPL was actually at Willow Garage, where the library was started, to do motion planning for the PR2 arms. As such, the library was hardened to run reliably and efficiently. Afterwards OMPL started to be used (via ROS and MoveIt!) for hundreds of different types of robots [4] .[5]

Research

OMPL includes tools for benchmarking,[6] providing a common platform for easily developing and testing new algorithms.

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References
  1. Ioan A. Şucan, Mark Moll, Lydia Kavraki (December 2011). The Open Motion Planning Library (PDF). IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
  2. Moll, Mark; Janice Bordeaux; Lydia E. Kavraki (2013). "Software for Project-Based Learning of Robot Motion Planning" (PDF). Computer Science Education. 23 (4): 332–348. Bibcode:2013CSEd...23..332M. doi:10.1080/08993408.2013.847167. Retrieved 8 January 2014.
  3. Mark Moll, Ioan A. Şucan, Janice Bordeaux, Lydia E. Kavraki (September 2011). Teaching Motion Planning Concepts to Undergraduate Students (PDF). Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts (ARSO).CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
  4. "MoveIt! 2013 Survey" (PDF).
  5. "Robots running ROS".
  6. Mark Moll, Ioan A. Şucan, Lydia Kavraki (September 2015). "Benchmarking Motion Planning Algorithms: An Extensible Infrastructure for Analysis and Visualization". IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine. 22 (3): 96–102. arXiv:1412.6673. doi:10.1109/MRA.2015.2448276.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
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