[Robotics] Robot Drive Simulation With Blender - First Robotics Competition

[Séverin Lemaignan]

MORSE [1] is a robot simulator based on Blender, and provides many ways to communicate with Blender from external applications, including sockets and a bunch of standard robotics middlewares including ROS.

Do not hesistate to ask questions/explain your needs on morse-users at laas.fr!

[1] morse-simulator.github.io

Cheers,
Severin

On 22/01/15 06:01, Peter Worden wrote:
> This is my first year with First Robotics team 3277.  The first thing I thought about when I was told we would like to try the swerve, also known as crab, drive was that simulation would be nice.  I thought immediately of Blender and found this group has a shared interest.  I think that First
> Robotics teams would all benefit from being able to create their code and test in simulation mode with Blender providing the means.
> 
> I don't know how a Java or C++ application written in Eclipse could communicate with Blender, but it sure would be nice.
> 
> One of the main problems had by many teams is the inability to program efficiently due to lack of access to a prototype or the actual robot itself due to designing and fabrication that takes place leaving a crunch for time on the programming phase.  I was recently shown a video giving examples of
> the problem and then some.  http://youtu.be/b1ujooRbqg4?t=2m16s
> 
> We may not end up using the swerve drive due to lack of parts availability, but that doesn't nullify the need for prototyping and simulation.
> 
> Respectfully,
> Peter Worden
> 
> 
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