Gazebo Sim offers the ability to accurately and efficiently simulate populations of robots in complex indoor and outdoor environments. At your fingertips is a robust physics engine, high-quality graphics, and convenient programmatic and graphical interfaces.
Gazebo simulates multiple robots in a 3D environment, with extensive dynamic interaction between objects.
Robot simulation is an essential tool in every roboticist’s toolbox. A well-designed simulator makes it possible to rapidly test algorithms, design robots, perform regression testing, and train AI system using realistic scenarios.
Features include:
- Dynamics simulation: Access multiple high-performance physics engines through Gazebo Physics.
- Advanced 3D graphics: Through Gazebo Rendering, it’s possible to use rendering engines such as OGRE v2 for realistic rendering of environments with high-quality lighting, shadows, and textures.
- Sensors and noise models: Generate sensor data, optionally with noise, from laser range finders, 2D/3D cameras, Kinect style sensors, contact sensors, force-torque, IMU, GPS, and more, all powered by Gazebo Sensors
- Plugins: Develop custom plugins for robot, sensor, and environment control.
- Graphical interface: Create, introspect and interact with your simulations through plugin-based graphical interfaces powered by Gazebo GUI.
- Simulation models: Access numerous robots including PR2, Pioneer2 DX, iRobot Create, and TurtleBot, and construct environments using other physically accurate models available through Gazebo Fuel. You can also build a new model using SDF.
- TCP/IP Transport: Run simulation on remote servers and interface to Gazebo Sim through socket-based message passing using Gazebo Transport.
- Command line tools: Extensive command line tools for increased simulation introspection and control.
Website: gazebosim.org
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Louise Poubel, Nate Koenig, Ian Chen, Addisu Z. Taddese, and other contributors
License: Apache License Version 2.0
Gazebo Sim is written in C++. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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