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Apm Planner alternatives for AI agents.

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ProjectAirSim

Similarity 131Trust 88Excellent 86

Project AirSim is Microsoft's evolution of AirSim, an advanced simulation platform for building, training, and testing autonomous systems in high-fidelity virtual environments

708 starsJun 1, 2026 pushrobotics-iotC++ROS
$ npx skills add iamaisim/ProjectAirSim
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Patchwork

Similarity 123Trust 88Excellent 85

SOTA fast and robust ground segmentation using 3D point cloud (accepted in RA-L'21 w/ IROS'21)

584 starsMay 21, 2026 pushrobotics-iotC++ROS
$ npx skills add LimHyungTae/patchwork
#3

Symforce

Similarity 115Trust 94Excellent 100

Fast symbolic computation, code generation, and nonlinear optimization for robotics

1.6K starsJun 1, 2026 pushrobotics-iotC++Computer Vision
$ npx skills add symforce-org/symforce
#4

Rko Lio

Similarity 114Trust 86Excellent 85

A Robust Approach for LiDAR-Inertial Odometry Without Sensor-Specific Modelling

580 starsJun 3, 2026 pushrobotics-iotC++ROS
$ npx skills add PRBonn/rko_lio
#5

Ros Gz

Similarity 114Trust 86Strong 84

Integration between ROS (1 and 2) and Gazebo simulation

522 starsJun 8, 2026 pushrobotics-iotC++ROS
$ npx skills add gazebosim/ros_gz
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Isaac Ros Nvblox

Similarity 114Trust 86Strong 80

NVIDIA-accelerated 3D scene reconstruction and Nav2 local costmap provider using nvblox

707 starsMay 1, 2026 pushrobotics-iotC++ROS
$ npx skills add NVIDIA-ISAAC-ROS/isaac_ros_nvblox
#7

Open3d Slam

Similarity 113Trust 84Strong 79

Pointcloud-based graph SLAM written in C++ using open3D library.

614 starsMay 5, 2026 pushrobotics-iotC++ROS
$ npx skills add leggedrobotics/open3d_slam
#8

DynamixelSDK

Similarity 113Trust 84Strong 79

ROBOTIS Dynamixel SDK (Protocol1.0/2.0)

591 starsMay 6, 2026 pushrobotics-iotC++ROS
$ npx skills add ROBOTIS-GIT/DynamixelSDK
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Mcl 3dl

Similarity 112Trust 85Strong 75

A ROS node to perform a probabilistic 3-D/6-DOF localization system for mobile robots with 3-D LIDAR(s). It implements pointcloud based Monte Carlo localization that uses a reference pointcloud as a map.

597 starsDec 22, 2025 pushrobotics-iotC++ROS
$ npx skills add at-wat/mcl_3dl
#10

FMT Firmware

Similarity 111Trust 86Excellent 86

Firmament Autopilot Embedded System

714 starsJun 15, 2026 pushrobotics-iotCRobotics
$ npx skills add Firmament-Autopilot/FMT-Firmware
#11

Aruco Ros

Similarity 110Trust 83Promising 67

Software package and ROS wrappers of the Aruco Augmented Reality marker detector library

598 starsSep 19, 2025 pushrobotics-iotC++ROS
$ npx skills add pal-robotics/aruco_ros
#12

Dwa Planner

Similarity 110Trust 81Promising 67

ROS implementation of DWA(Dynamic Window Approach) Planner

590 starsOct 6, 2025 pushrobotics-iotC++ROS
$ npx skills add amslabtech/dwa_planner
#13

Ublox

Similarity 110Trust 81Promising 66

A driver for ublox gps

530 starsSep 26, 2025 pushrobotics-iotC++ROS
$ npx skills add KumarRobotics/ublox
#14

Turtlebot3 Simulations

Similarity 110Trust 81Promising 66

Simulations for TurtleBot3

509 starsJul 14, 2025 pushrobotics-iotC++ROS
$ npx skills add ROBOTIS-GIT/turtlebot3_simulations
#15

Iq Tutorials

Similarity 109Trust 78Needs review 54

Intelligent-Quads/iq_tutorials is a high-star GitHub project relevant to AI agent workflows.

551 starsApr 26, 2023 pushrobotics-iotROSClaude Code
$ npx skills add Intelligent-Quads/iq_tutorials
#16

Autoware Vision Pilot

Similarity 109Trust 88Excellent 85

Free self-driving car stack - fully open-source ADAS and autonomous driving system

578 starsJun 15, 2026 pushrobotics-iotC++Robotics
$ npx skills add autowarefoundation/autoware_vision_pilot

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