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+# robotics-toolbox-python
+Robotics Toolbox for Python
+
+This is an old first attempt at creating an open Python version of the venerable Robotics Toolbox for MATLAB.  
+The MATLAB toolbox has support for:
+
+* mobile robots
+  - vehicle kinematic models and controllers
+  - path planners (distance xform, D*, PRM, lattice, RRT)
+  - dead-reckoning, localization, mapping, SLAM
+  
+* robot manipulator arms
+  - kinematics forward and inverse
+  - Jacobians
+  - rigid-body dynamics
+  
+* common datastructures for
+  - SO2/SE2 planar rotations and rigid-body motion
+  - SO3/SE3 3D and rigid-body motion
+  - quaternions
+  - twists, Plucker lines
+  
+With matplotlib, scipy, numpy and jupyter it should be possible to create a very effective open robotics environment.
