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OMPL

Kavraki Lab — Rice University

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OMPL

Kavraki Lab — Rice University

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The Open Motion Planning Library: 40+ state-of-the-art sampling-based planners (RRT-Connect, RRT*, PRM*, KPIECE, FMT*, AIT*) as a robot-agnostic C++/Python library — the planning core inside MoveIt and many industrial stacks.

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The Open Motion Planning Library: 40+ state-of-the-art sampling-based planners (RRT-Connect, RRT*, PRM*, KPIECE, FMT*, AIT*) as a robot-agnostic C++/Python library — the planning core inside MoveIt and many industrial stacks.

licenseBSD-3-Clause
$apt/vcpkg/pip (ompl); bundled with MoveIt

The Open Motion Planning Library: 40+ state-of-the-art sampling-based planners (RRT-Connect, RRT*, PRM*, KPIECE, FMT*, AIT*) as a robot-agnostic C++/Python library — the planning core inside MoveIt and many industrial stacks.

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Overview

OMPL from the Kavraki Lab at Rice University is the reference implementation of sampling-based motion planning. It provides a clean abstraction over state spaces, samplers and planners — more than 40 algorithms including RRT-Connect, RRT*, Informed RRT*, PRM/PRM*, KPIECE, EST, FMT*, BIT*/AIT*/ABIT* — while staying deliberately robot-agnostic: collision checking and dynamics are supplied by the host application (MoveIt, custom industrial stacks, research frameworks). OMPL 2.0 (June 2026) modernizes the core and Python bindings. It has been the planning engine behind countless research papers and production manipulators for over a decade.

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Key features

  • 40+ sampling-based planners under one API
  • Robot-agnostic: bring your own collision checker and state validity
  • Built-in benchmarking infrastructure (Planner Arena)
  • Planning core of MoveIt and many commercial stacks

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At a glance

License
BSD-3-Clause
Planning Algorithms
RRT/RRT-Connect/RRT*/Informed RRT*, PRM/PRM*, KPIECE, EST, SBL, FMT*, BIT*/AIT*/ABIT* — 40+ planners
ROS Compatible
Yes

Manufacturer

KL
Kavraki Lab — Rice University

Physical and computational robotics group at Rice University — creators of OMPL

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At a glance

License
BSD-3-Clause
Planning Algorithms
RRT/RRT-Connect/RRT*/Informed RRT*, PRM/PRM*, KPIECE, EST, SBL, FMT*, BIT*/AIT*/ABIT* — 40+ planners
ROS Compatible
Yes

Manufacturer

KL
Kavraki Lab — Rice University

Physical and computational robotics group at Rice University — creators of OMPL

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