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Develop your robotic tasks using an intuitive graphical user interface

Getting Started
Licensed under the EPL v1.0
Latest Release v2.1.2
The RAFCON GUI showing a simple state machine

The RAFCON GUI showing a simple state machine

The RAFCON GUI showing a more complex state machine: A skill for drilling

The RAFCON GUI showing a more complex state machine: A skill for drilling

The RAFCON GUI showing the first layer of the state machine we used for the SpacebotCamp (see News/Projects)

The RAFCON GUI showing the first layer of the state machine we used for the SpacebotCamp (see News/Projects)

A screenshot of the RAFCON GUI taken on Mt. Etna during a mission run of the Robex project (see News/Projects)

A screenshot of the RAFCON GUI taken on Mt. Etna during a mission run of the Robex project (see News/Projects)

RAFCON uses hierarchical state machines, featuring concurrent state execution, to represent robot programs. It ships with a graphical user interface supporting the creation of state machines and contains IDE like debugging mechanisms. Alternatively, state machines can programmatically be generated using RAFCON's API.

Key Features

Universal application
RAFCON is written in Python, can be extended with plugins and is hard- and middleware independent.
Visual programming
The sophisticated graphical editor can be used for the creation, execution and debugging of state machines.
Collaborative working
Share and reuse your state machines in form of libraries, stored as JSON strings in text files.

German Aerospace Center
Institute of Robotics
and Mechatronics

Get in Touch

Visit the GitHub Repository
Contact the developers
Send mail to the RAFCON team