Open Source Simulation Software

Spark is a physical simulation system. The primary purpose of this system is to provide a *generic* simulator for different kinds of simulations. In these simulations, agents can participate as external processes.

A parametric, feature-based, sketch-driven 3D CAD application, built around a geometrical constraint solving engine. Project is in early development stage. The FreeSG library (http://freesg.org/) is required.

This is a sophisticated & integrated simulation and analysis environment for dynamical systems models of physical systems (ODEs, DAEs, maps, and hybrid systems). It supports symbolic math, optimization, continuation, data analysis, biological apps...

Moved to https://github.com/rdiankov/openrave An open-source, cross-platform, plugin-based robot planning environment for autonomous robotics. Includes services like collision detection, physics, (inverse) kinematics, sensors, robot controls, python bindings, and a network scripting environment.

QVM is a quaternion, vector, and matrix class set in C++ for 3D kinematics.

FEMM procedures to analyse rotating machines.

USARSim (Unified System for Automation and Robot Simulation) is a high-fidelity simulation of robots and environments based on the Unreal Tournament game engine. It is intended as a research tool and is the basis for the RoboCup rescue virtual robot comp

Critterding is a "Petri dish" universe in 3D that demonstrates evolving artificial life. Critters start out with completely random brains and bodies, but will automatically start evolving into something with much better survival skills.

ARS is a physically-accurate robotics simulator written in Python. It's main purpose is to help researchers with to develop mobile manipulators and, in general, any multi-body system. It is open-source, modular, easy to learn and use, and can be a valuable tool in the process of robot design, in the development of control and reasoning algorithms, as well as in teaching and educational activities.

A MATLAB toolbox for simulating the movement of the iRobot Create. Contains multiple GUIs for creating maps and other input, showing the movement of the Create, and replaying a previously saved session.

Java based portable simulator to visualize and understand the Robot Localization, Path planning, Path Smoothing and PID controller concepts. It is very flexible and easy to use. It supports multiple platforms. The source code is available on Github where you can find latest development and up-to-date documentation. Source : https://github.com/habsoft/robosim Blog : https://robosimblog.wordpress.com Note : Use jre 1.7 to run it. 1.Histogram Filter 2.Histogram Filter with Sonar Range Finder (Experimental) 3.Kalman Filter 4.Particles Filter 5.Path Planning 6.Path Smoothing 7.PID Controller Path Planning Algorithms 1.BFS 2.DFS 3.A Star 4. Dynamic Programming Heuristics i. Euclidean Distance ii. Euclidean Distance(+) iii. Euclidean Distance(*) iv. Euclidean Distance Squared v. Manhattan Distance vi. Chebyshev Distance

SARGE - Search And Rescue Game Environment is a multi-player training game for robot operators which also supports agent based robot control for simulation work via TCP.

Simox has moved to gitlab. Please update your URLs: https://gitlab.com/Simox/simox A platform-independent robot simulation, motion and grasp planning toolbox consisting of three modules: VirtualRobot to simulate and visualize robots, Saba the sampling-based motion planning library and GraspStudio for grasp planning.

Science based weld software to develop optimal automatic weld procedures. SmartWeld is a PC based tool for designers, engineers, and technicians to aid in selecting, optimizing, and configuring automated welding processes.

A Java client for the Player/Stage robot platform.

The ACTIVE-IST project is a set of libraries (e.g. JAUS SDK) for rapid development of cross-platform applications with Unmanned Systems using the JAUS Standard (AS5710, AS6009), Simulations, Human-Interface Devices, and more.

3D mobile robot simulation environment. Due to the component-based design very flexible and also suitable for several other mechatronical systems. Planned to be used for a real distributed robot system currently being built up.

eMatrix is a lightweight matrix library developed in C++. EMatrix is designed to help solve engineering problems requiring linear algebra. eMatrix is OS independent and is fairly portable. New features include inv(A) and det(A).

B.O.T.S (Bots Tactical Simulation) is a programming game, where players "code" the behaviour of their bot and watch them fight with others bots in a arena. It comes with a full environnement in Java/Swing, for coding, debugging, playing matchs, etc ...

Calculation of camshafts - allows to define a camshaft profile on the set trajectory which should provide the given mechanism. The trajectory can be set graphically, co-ordinates or function.

Implement a 3d simulator of a Quadrotor using the Gazebo simulator (part of the Player/Stage project); develop a Controller and some changes on Gazebo core required. Implement a client application, developed on Qt to interact with, using libgazebo.

The Mobility Open Architecture Simulation and Tools (MOAST) framework aids in the development of autonomous robots. It includes an architecture, control modules, interface specs, and data sets and is fully integrated with the USARSim simulation system.

A very simple java simulation of the human body to simulate a 3D drawing manikin,with plenty of freedom of movements of the limbs and rotation of the body to implements a 360 degrees view.Source code available.No openGL.Improvements to come !

The Mars Rover Simulator project is based on the evolutionary robotics paradigm where an artificial agent acquires its skills through the process of artificial evolution. This simulator can be useful to evolve neural network controllers for the rover

A 3D robots simulator written in python. Uses ODE physics and OpenGL/Inventor graphics. A differential wheels robot is provided. There is no user interface but the code is small and is intended to be easily extended for your simulations.