Dear ROS community, We are happy to announce the newest version of the robot simulator V-REP now also featuring an extensive ROS interface . Students may use V-REP with full functionality for free. V-REP is the Swiss army knife among robot simulators: hundreds of features and functions, and a very elaborate API: * 5 programming approaches (embedded scripts, plugins, ROS nodes, remote API clients, or custom solutions) * 6 programming languages (C/C++, Python, Java, Lua, Matlab, and Urbi) * more than 300 different API functions * >100 ROS services, >30 ROS publisher types, >25 ROS subscriber types, extendable * 2 physics engines (ODE and Bullet) * Full kinematics solver (IK and FK for ANY mechanisms), can also be embedded on your robot * Mesh-mesh interference detection * Mesh-mesh minimum distance calculation * Path planning (holonomic in 2-6 dimensions, non-holonomic for car-like vehicles) * Vision sensors with built-in image processing (fully extendable) * Realistic proximity sensors (minimum distance calculation within a detection volume) * Built-in custom user interfaces, including editor * Fully integrated Reflexxes Motion Library type 4 * Surface cutting simulation * Data recording and visualisation (time graphs, X/Y graph or 3D curves) * Integrated shape edit modes, including a semi-automatic primitive shape extraction method * Dynamic particles for water-/air-jet simulation * Model browser with drag-and-drop functionality (also during simulation) * Multi-level undo/redo, movie recorder, simulation of paint, exhaustive documentation, etc. For more information, please visit http://www.coppeliarobotics.com, or have a look at following demo video: V-REP Demo Video Or visit us at IROS, at Hibot's booth. Best regards, Marc -- Dr. Marc Freese Coppelia Robotics / V-REP Mobile: +41 79 830 83 56 marc@coppeliarobotics.com http://www.coppeliarobotics.com