Credits

OpenRDK is the result of the development activity in the SIED Laboratory, whose coordinator is Prof. Daniele Nardi..

Daniele Calisi and Andrea Censi have designed and implemented this framework.

Alessandro Farinelli, Giorgio Grisetti and Luca Iocchi gave their contribution in the architecture definition and implementation.

Here is a couple of papers related to the OpenRDK:
OpenRDK: A modular framework for robotic software development. D. Calisi, A. Censi, L. Iocchi, D. Nardi. 2008 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems.
Design choices for modular and flexible robotic software development: the OpenRDK viewpoint. D. Calisi, A. Censi, L. Iocchi, D. Nardi. Journal of Software Engineering in Robotics.

The previous framework of our laboratory, on which Giorgio Grisetti, Alessandro Farinelli and Luca Iocchi worked hard, was named SPQR-RDK; here is a pubblication about it:
Design and implementation of modular software for programming mobile robots A. Farinelli, G. Grisetti, L. Iocchi. International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, 3 (1), pp. 37-42, March 2006.