Robot3D is a 3D robot simulator built on top of the open-source game engine Delta3D. The Robot3D simulator is created within the European Replicator and Symbrion projects. The prime developer is Lutz Winkler from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (for an overview of all the partners/
- Why Robot3D?
Robot3D fills a gap in open-source robot simulation software. The competitor Webots is only commercially available to non-academic institutes. Player/Stage/Gazebo adds 3D as an afterthought and does not have a clear communication infrastructure. Robot3D is built on an advanced 3D game engine, Delta3D, and uses YARP, Yet Another Robot Platform, to decouple communicating entities.
- European projects
The Robot3D simulator is created within the European Replicator and Symbrion projects. The Replicator project is funded by the European Commission within the work programme "Cognitive Systems, Interaction, Robotics" under the grant agreement no. 216240. The Symbrion project is funded within the work programme "Future and Emergent Technologies Proactive" under the grant agreement no. 216342. Replicator and Symbrion concerns the design of modular robots in the real world and in 3D simulation.
- Installation
Installation is easy if you run Ubuntu Maverick, Natty, or Oneiric:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:robot3d-
sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude install robot3d-dev yarp-bin delta3d-apps
The YARP package for Penguin is already supported too.
- Partners/
See http://
PPA: https:/
Project information
- Maintainer:
- Robot3D Team
- Driver:
- Robot3D Team
- Licence:
- Simplified BSD Licence, GNU GPL v2, GNU LGPL v2.1, GNU LGPL v3
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trunk series is the current focus of development.
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Full robot control over YARP
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