The Orocos Component Library

Open RObot COntrol Software

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Abstract

This document gives a short overview of the Orocos Component Library, a collection of useful components for running and managing control applications.


Table of Contents

1. What is the Orocos Component Library?
2. Component Documentation

1. What is the Orocos Component Library?

This library contains user contributed software components of the Open Robot Control Software project. They are built using the Real-Time Toolkit and some of them use other libraries such as OpenCV, readline, Comedi, the Kinematics and Dynamics Library, the Bayesian Filtering Library and so on. Components for interfacing hardware devices are available as well.

2. Component Documentation

Each component or group of associated components has a manual of its own and are available in the API documentation. The following documents are available: