Dear ROS community,
After 4 years of worldwide development by over 20 people in 10 different
labs, we are extremely excited to announce the immediate availability of
MORSE-1.0, a novel versatile simulator for academic robotics, with full
ROS support.
Amongst the prominent features:
* Versatile 3D simulator for mobile robots simulation (single or
multi robots),
* Realistic ('modern' OpenGL) and dynamic environments (interaction
with other agents like humans or objects),
* Based on well known and widely adopted open source projects
(Blender for real-time 3D rendering, Bullet for physics simulation,
dedicated robotic middlewares for communications),
* Command-line oriented (with optional scene editing in Blender),
entirely scriptable in Python,
* Adaptable to various level of simulation abstraction (e.g. simulate
cameras as video-streams, depth-streams or semantic maps depending on
your needs),
* > 20 classes of sensors (including depth sensors, cameras, IMU,
laser scanners...), > 15 classes of actuators (including kinematic
chains, quadrirotor control, force control...) are available. Detailed
documentation explain how to add new ones (in C or Python),
* Currently supports ROS, YARP, MOOS and Pocolibs + direct socket
interface
* Extensive documentation, available here:
http://www.openrobots.org/morse/doc/stable/morse.html
And as a collaborative academic project, the source code is available
under a permissive BSD license. Grab your copy from
http://www.github.com/laas/morse !
Last but not least, Michael and Pierrick will be present at ROSCon in
May to present the project. Feel free to pop-up to meet the team!
Cheers!
Séverin, for the MORSE team
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