Virtual Robot Experimentation Platform V-REP: A Versatile 3D Robot Simulator. Freese, M., Singh, S. P. N., Ozaki, F., & Matsuhira, N. 2010.
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From exploring planets to cleaning homes, the reach and versatility of robotics is vast. The integration of actuation, sensing and control makes robotics systems powerful, but complicates their simulation. This paper introduces a modular and decentralized architecture for robotics simulation. In contrast to centralized approaches, this balances functionality, provides more diversity, and simplifies connectivity between (independent) calculation modules. As the Virtual Robot Experimentation Platform (V-REP) demonstrates, this gives a small-footprint 3D robot simulator that concurrently simulates control, actuation, sensing and monitoring. Its distributed and modular approach are ideal for complex scenarios in which a diversity of sensors and actuators operate asynchronously with various rates and characteristics. This allows for versatile prototyping applications including systems verification, safety/remote monitoring, rapid algorithm development, and factory automation simulation.
@CONFERENCE{simpar.2010.vrep,
  author = {Marc Freese and Surya P. N. Singh and Fumio Ozaki and Nobuto Matsuhira},
  title = {Virtual Robot Experimentation Platform {V-REP}: A Versatile {3D}
	Robot Simulator},
  booktitle = {{SIMPAR} 2010},
  year = {2010},
  series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  abstract = {From exploring planets to cleaning homes, the reach and versatility
	of robotics is vast. The integration of actuation, sensing and control
	makes robotics systems powerful, but complicates their simulation.
	This paper introduces a modular and decentralized architecture for
	robotics simulation. In contrast to centralized approaches, this
	balances functionality, provides more diversity, and simplifies connectivity
	between (independent) calculation modules. As the Virtual Robot Experimentation
	Platform (V-REP) demonstrates, this gives a small-footprint 3D robot
	simulator that concurrently simulates control, actuation, sensing
	and monitoring. Its distributed and modular approach are ideal for
	complex scenarios in which a diversity of sensors and actuators operate
	asynchronously with various rates and characteristics. This allows
	for versatile prototyping applications including systems verification,
	safety/remote monitoring, rapid algorithm development, and factory
	automation simulation.},
  pdf = {simpar2010.vrep.pdf},
  url = {http://www.sim.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/simpar2010/index.php/program/schedule.html}
}

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