MotoSim
Yaskawa Motoman's MotoSim EG-VRC (Enhanced Graphics Virtual Robot Controller) is a sophisticated offline programming and 3D simulation software tailored for the precise programming of complex robotic systems. It enables users to construct and simulate robotic work cells virtually, eliminating the need for physical robots during the development phase. Key features include optimizing robot and equipment placement, reach modeling, accurate cycle time calculations, automatic path generation, collision detection, system configuration, condition file editing, and Functional Safety Unit (FSU) configuration. The software incorporates a virtual robot controller, providing a programming pendant interface identical to the actual controller, ensuring a seamless transition from simulation to real-world application. Additionally, MotoSim EG-VRC offers access to an extensive model library, allowing users to download a broad range of third-party models to enhance their simulations.
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E-Hub NDI
e-hub NDI is the acronym of Engineering hub for Non-Destructive Inspection. The software is a flexible platform for a variety of manufacturing inspection needs. Design & Simulate in software, then generate the program for the robot controller. e-hub NDI is an offline simulation and programming software for robotic non-destructive testing. The sensor performing the inspection may or may not be in contact with the part to be inspected.
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Webots
Cyberbotics' Webots is an open source, multi-platform desktop application designed for modeling, programming, and simulating robots. It offers a comprehensive development environment that includes a vast asset library with robots, sensors, actuators, objects, and materials, facilitating rapid prototyping and efficient robotics project development. Users can import existing CAD models from tools like Blender or URDF and integrate OpenStreetMap data to create detailed simulations. Webots supports programming in multiple languages, including C, C++, Python, Java, MATLAB, and ROS, providing flexibility for diverse development needs. Its modern GUI, combined with a physics engine and OpenGL rendering, enables realistic simulation of various robotic systems, such as wheeled robots, industrial arms, legged robots, drones, and autonomous vehicles. The platform is widely utilized in industry, education, and research for tasks like robot prototyping, and AI algorithm development.
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CoppeliaSim
CoppeliaSim, developed by Coppelia Robotics, is a versatile and powerful robot simulation platform utilized for rapid algorithm development, factory automation simulations, fast prototyping and verification, robotics education, remote monitoring, safety double-checking, and digital twin creation. It features a distributed control architecture, allowing each object or model to be individually controlled via embedded scripts (Python or Lua), plugins (C/C++), remote API clients (Python, Lua, Java, MATLAB, Octave, C, C++, Rust), or custom solutions. The simulator supports five physics engines, MuJoCo, Bullet Physics, ODE, Newton, and Vortex Dynamics, for fast and customizable dynamics calculations, enabling realistic simulation of real-world physics and object interactions, including collision response, grasping, soft bodies, strings, ropes, and cloths. CoppeliaSim provides forward and inverse kinematics calculations for any type of mechanism.
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