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Software => Software => Topic started by: floating on September 06, 2011, 05:15:36 AM

Title: Robot simulation software
Post by: floating on September 06, 2011, 05:15:36 AM
Hello,

I'd like to introduce you a robot simulator, that I have been developing in the last few years:

V-REP - the Virtual Robot Experimentation Platform - is a 3D robot simulator, with integrated development environment, based on a distributed control architecture: control programs (or scripts) can be directly attached to scene objects and run simultaneously in a threaded or non-threaded fashion. This makes V-REP very versatile and ideal for multi-robot applications, and allows users to model robotic systems in a similar fashion as in reality - where control is most of the time also distributed.

(http://www.v-rep.eu/v-rep/mainPage_files/mainPage.jpg)

V-REP allows you to edit and simulate whole robotic systems, or sub-systems (e.g. sensors, mechanisms, etc.). It offers a multitude of functionalities (e.g. 2 physics engines, full forward/inverse kinematics solver, path planning, mesh-mesh minimum distance calculation module, proximity sensors, camera sensors with image processing, distributed control, etc.) that can be easily integrated and combined through an exhaustive API and script functionality.

V-REP is used for remote monitoring, hardware control, fast prototyping and verification, fast algorithm development / parameter adjustment, safety double-checking, robotics-related education, factory automation simulations, etc.

V-REP is free for students and can be downloaded here: http://www.v-rep.eu (http://www.v-rep.eu)

I posted a demo video on the "Robot videos" forum page, that gives a good idea of V-REP's functionality.

Cheers,

Marc
Title: Re: Robot simulation software
Post by: bobthefirst1 on September 17, 2011, 10:14:49 PM
Wait, you made that!?! Cuz its really awesome. It helped me alot :D