[ros-users] Robot Simulator V-REP now open source.

[Jonathan Bohren]

Marc,

Of those points listed in this announcement, which features are released
under an open-source license?

Thanks!
-j



On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 9:59 AM, Marc Freese <marc at coppeliarobotics.com>wrote:

> Dear ROS community,
>
> We are happy to announce that the V-REP robot simulator, that includes an
> extensive and powerful ROS interface, is now open source. As of now, it is
> also fully free and without any limitation for students, teachers,
> professors, schools and universities. No registration required. Moreover,
> V-REP is now available for customization and sub-licensing.
>
> V-REP is the Swiss army knife among robot simulators: you won't find a
> simulator with more features and functions, or a more elaborate API:
>
> - Cross-platform: Windows, Mac OSX and Linux (32 & 64 bit)
> - Open source: full source code downloadable and compilable. Precompiled
> binaries also available for each platform
> - 6 programming approaches: embedded scripts, plugins, add-ons, ROS nodes,
> remote API clients, or custom solutions
> - 6 programming languages: C/C++, Python, Java, Lua, Matlab, and Urbi
> - API: more than 400 different functions
> - ROS: >100 services, >30 publisher types, >25 subscriber types, extendable
> - Importers/exporters: URDF, COLLADA, DXF, OBJ, 3DS, STL
> - 2 Physics engines: ODE and Bullet
> - Kinematic solver: IK and FK for ANY mechanism, can also be embedded on
> your robot
> - Interference detection: calculations between ANY meshes. Very fast
> - Minimum distance calculation: calculations between ANY meshes. Very fast
> - Path planning: holonomic in 2-6 dimensions and non-holonomic for
> car-like vehicles
> - Vision sensors: includes built-in image processing, fully extendable
> - Proximity sensors: very realistic and fast (minimum distance within a
> detection volume)
> - User interfaces: built-in, fully customizable (editor included)
> - Robot motion library: fully integrated Reflexxes Motion Library type 4
> - Data recording and visualisation: time graphs, X/Y graphs or 3D curves
> - Shape edit modes: includes a semi-automatic primitive shape extraction
> method
> - Dynamic particles: simulation of water- or air-jets
> - Model browser: includes drag-and-drop functionality, also during
> simulation
> - Other: Multi-level undo/redo, movie recorder, convex decomposition,
> simulation of paint, exhaustive documentation, etc.
>
> For more information, please visit http://www.coppeliarobotics.**com<http://www.coppeliarobotics.com>or have a look at following demo video:
>
> http://youtu.be/bwGYUayglHY
>
> Best regards,
>
> Marc
>
> --
> Dr. Marc Freese
> Coppelia Robotics / V-REP
> Mobile: +41 79 830 83 56
> marc at coppeliarobotics.com
> http://www.coppeliarobotics.**com <http://www.coppeliarobotics.com>
>
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Jonathan Bohren
PhD Student
Dynamical Systems and Control Laboratory
Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics
The Johns Hopkins University

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