What is peekabot?
peekabot is a distributed real-time 3D visualization tool for robotics researchers and developers, written in C++. Its purpose is to simplify the visualization needs faced by a roboticist daily - using visualization as a debugging aid or making fancy slides for a presentation, for example.
Our goal is to provide a flexible tool that will cater to the vast majority of a roboticist's visualization needs, yet is easy to use. Typical scenarios include visualization of simulations, data display from real robots and monitoring of remotely deployed robots.
To enable remote data visualization, peekabot uses a distributed client-server architecture. All the gory details of networking is handled by the client library, used by your programs.
Supported platforms
peekabot was designed with platform indepedence in mind, and has been used on both Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Although unverified, it should build on other platforms as well, such as Windows with mingw (not recommended unless you have previous experience with mingw).
License
peekabot is released under a mix of the Boost Software License version 1.0 and the GNU General Public License version 2.0 or, at your option, any later version.
The parts your program has to link with, the peekabot client library, is licensed exclusively under the permissive Boost Software License, which enables unrestricted use of peekabot in commercial applications, for example.
Looking for robotics models?
We maintain a model repository for robotics in our wiki, where you can share models for common robotics hardware with others.
News
peekabot in FreeBSD
peekabot is now available in the FreeBSD ports collection (science/peekabot). Thanks to Chris Petrik for packaging!
Posted by staffan on Jun 22, 2009
peekabot 0.6 released
One day after schedule (for no particular reason) version 0.6 of peekabot has been released. Only minor changes were made since RC1. The 0.6 release of peekabot includes many improvements, bugfixes and several new features. We feel confident to say this it is our most polished release to date.
Posted by staffan on Jun 18, 2009
peekabot 0.6 RC1
Release candidate 1 for the upcoming 0.6 release is now available for testing.
Posted by staffan on Jun 10, 2009
