Hi guys, I need some advice about the suitability of using Gazebo (and Stage). I'm currently involved in a project of distributed robotics which is a follow-up of a previous project, the Swarmbot project (http:// www.swarm-bots.org/). We are just starting with the new project and we are now considering the issue of choosing the simulation platform. We will have flying, rolling and climbing robots, which we will design and manufacture from scratch. They will live in a physical 3D world and will have some tight physical interaction (other than, of course, exchanging messages).
Some of the partners already have from previous projects draft simulators for the flying and rolling robots (using ODE and OpenGL stuff). Therefore, the majority of people in the project tend to like the idea to develop from scratch a common simulation framework that would take care of the physical environment and interactions as well as of the graphical visualization. In this way they think it will be easier to re-use the code they already have at hand. On the other hand, I would like to use Gazebo, since it is a ready-to-use simulation platform, it looks quite well done, and it comes with all the necessary tools. I also "suspect" that it should not be too complex to migrate the old code into Gazebo. However, from the documentation, which is not that great, I have to say, it's a bit hard to understand if Gazebo is really suitable to simulate complex ehterogenous environments/robots and their interactions. Can I have you advice wrt this issue? What about computational performance? Moreover, it would be nice to have the code of one of the nice video examples available on the web site, in order to get a better understanding of how difficult is in practice writing code using Gazebo and what would be the cost of migrate old code based on ODE/OpenGL. Thanks a lot! Gianni ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Playerstage-gazebo mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/playerstage-gazebo
