Learning Robotics using Python - Second Edition

Introducing Gazebo

Gazebo is a free and open source robot simulator in which we can test our own algorithms, design robots, and test robots in different simulated environments. Gazebo can accurately and efficiently simulate complex robots in indoor and outdoor environments. Gazebo is built with a physics engine with which we can create high-quality graphics and rendering.

The features of Gazebo are as follows:

• Dynamic simulation: Gazebo can simulate the dynamics of a robot using physics engines such as Open Dynamics Engine (ODE). (http://opende.sourceforge.net/), Bullet (http://bulletphysics.org/wordpress/), Simbody (https://simtk.org/home/simbody/), and DART (http://dartsim.github.io/).
• Advanced 3D graphics: Gazebo provides high-quality ...