[3] Middleware products rely on a wide range of different standards, technologies, and approaches that make their use and interoperation difficult, and some developers may prefer to integrate their system themselves.
Although accurate statistics are hard to obtain, Player is one of the most popular open-source robot interfaces in research and post-secondary education.
It provides transparent concurrency management, inter-process (via sockets) and intra-process (via shared memory) blackboard-based communication and a linking technique that allows for input/output data ports conceptual system design.
Rock provides all the tools required to set up and run high-performance and reliable robotic systems for wide variety of applications in research and industry.
There is an open source community version available at GitHub with supported hardware platform includes BOM details, refer kaya-robot ROS Archived 2018-01-15 at the Wayback Machine (Robot Operating System) is a collection of software frameworks for robot software development on a heterogeneous computer cluster.
ROS provides standard operating system services such as hardware abstraction, low-level device control, implementation of commonly used functionality, message-passing between processes, and package management.
DDX (Dynamic Data eXchange) is (Linux/BSD/Unix) middleware developed by CSIRO to provide a lightweight real-time publish/subscribe service to distributed robot controllers.
[10] DDX was developed to automate a number of large mining machines: including draglines, LHD trucks, excavators and rock-breakers.