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Motion planning and collision detection tools

Hi everyone,

My question is quite specific - I'm hoping that someone out there will be familiar with this topic and able to help me!

I'm investigating the software library/API options for robot motion planning and collision detection with a view to using them for offline simulation purposes. I've seen a lot of talk about OpenRAVE and MoveIt! - but these are both written in C++ and target a linux/unix platform. Presumably, this is because the tools are meant to be run on a real robot controller (in real-time, with high performance). However, if I want to do motion planning in a simulator running on Windows (.NET), what are the best options?

Does anyone have any experience (good or bad) with any of these tools that they can share with me?

With regards,

Ian McArdle BEng(Hons) CEng MIET

Lead Engineer (Software), Omron Electronics UK Ltd.

0 Martí Morta Garriga over 3 years ago

Hi Ian,

if you still need this (it is only 1 year later!) I have used MoveIt (alongside ROS1) both in simulation and reality.

Maybe these links from Microsoft contributions to ROS can help with using MoveIt in windows https://ms-iot.github.io/ROSOnWindows/Moveit/moveit_tutorials.html and https://microsoft.github.io/Win-RoS-Landing-Page

Best regards,

Martí
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0 Ian McArdle over 3 years ago

Hi Martí,

Thank you for your reply. I have since moved on from my brief exploration of motion planning tools but I am nonetheless grateful for the links that you shared. I will pass the information on to my colleagues who are still working in this area and, of course, the information will remain here for the benefit of others who are searching for it too.

With regards,

Ian.
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