Gazebo Sim is a robotics simulator for modelling robots and their interaction with complex indoor and outdoor environments.
It provides a modular simulation environment where physics, rendering, sensors, communication and user interfaces are handled by specialised Gazebo libraries. This architecture allows simulations to range from straightforward single-robot experiments to environments containing multiple interacting robots and systems.
Gazebo Sim can be controlled through its graphical interface, plugins, command-line tools or asynchronous message-passing interfaces. It is used for robot development, algorithm testing, regression testing, research and experiments that would be costly or impractical to perform repeatedly with physical hardware.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Supports multiple high-performance dynamics engines through the Gazebo Physics abstraction layer.
- Provides advanced 3D rendering with realistic lighting, shadows, textures and OGRE-based graphics.
- Simulates laser range finders, cameras, depth sensors, contact sensors, force-torque sensors, IMUs, GPS devices and other robotics hardware.
- Adds configurable sensor noise for more realistic simulation output.
- Uses plugins to implement custom robot, sensor and environment behaviour.
- Provides a plugin-based graphical interface for creating, inspecting and interacting with simulations.
- Uses SDF to describe robots, objects and complete simulated worlds.
- Can obtain reusable robot and environment models through Gazebo Fuel.
- Supports network-transparent message passing and services through Gazebo Transport.
- Offers command-line tools for launching, controlling and inspecting simulations.
- Can be embedded as a library or extended using standalone programs and system plugins.
Website: gazebosim.org
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Developer: Louise Poubel, Nate Koenig, Ian Chen, Addisu Z. Taddese, and other contributors
License: Apache License 2.0
Gazebo Sim is written in C++. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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