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:

Or visit us at IROS, at Hibot's booth.

Best regards,

Marc

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Dr. Marc Freese
Coppelia Robotics / V-REP
Mobile: +41 79 830 83 56
marc@coppeliarobotics.com
http://www.coppeliarobotics.com