I know there maybe different applications for robots and different software and operating system are optimized for each application, but I wonder if there maybe something very popular what is used in majority.
I would be grateful if you consider applications of each software/operating system you mention.
I would agree with ROS, but it also depends upon your objectives. For education and entry level robotics, http://www.robotc.net/, is really basic and works with many education kits. ROS includes quite a bit of code and from my viewpoint not simple to embed it well into a simple system design. I prefer building up my own embedded Linux or FreeRTOS (http://www.freertos.org/) platform, bringing over key code libraries like OpenCV for computer vision, and building up my own sensor and actuator drivers and interfaces, but ROS is intended to save you this trouble. My observation though is that if you build and configure your own platform, you understand it well, it's just what you need and therefore more efficient, and you can run on a smaller and more efficient processor like TI-OMAP (Beagle boards and Gumstix), Raspberry Pi, or a Microchip MIPS processor.
I would agree with ROS, but it also depends upon your objectives. For education and entry level robotics, http://www.robotc.net/, is really basic and works with many education kits. ROS includes quite a bit of code and from my viewpoint not simple to embed it well into a simple system design. I prefer building up my own embedded Linux or FreeRTOS (http://www.freertos.org/) platform, bringing over key code libraries like OpenCV for computer vision, and building up my own sensor and actuator drivers and interfaces, but ROS is intended to save you this trouble. My observation though is that if you build and configure your own platform, you understand it well, it's just what you need and therefore more efficient, and you can run on a smaller and more efficient processor like TI-OMAP (Beagle boards and Gumstix), Raspberry Pi, or a Microchip MIPS processor.
Its ROS.
Robot Operating System (ROS) is a collection of software frameworks for robot software development, (see also Robotics middleware) providing operating system-like functionality 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. Running sets of ROS-based processes are represented in a graph architecture where processing takes place in nodes that may receive, post and multiplex sensor, control, state, planning, actuator and other messages. Despite the importance of reactivity and low latency in robot control, ROS, itself, is not a Realtime OS, though it is possible to integrate ROS with realtime code.
It depends on what you exactly aim to do... In general the most popular is Ros and also Matlab Robotics Toolbox : http://petercorke.com/Robotics_Toolbox.html
You can also try Player - http://playerstage.sourceforge.net/
and
Labview Robotics - http://www.ni.com/labview/robotics/
Yes I agree with Maryam Banitalebi Dehkordi It depends on what you exactly aim to do...From my experience in the automotive industry, painting line robot programming is more difficult than in robot welding line.
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