This project aims at developing a simulation framework for training pilots of robots used for intervention in case of a nuclear incident. These robots include industrial arms and will be controlled using ROS.

The project will contribute to the ROS-Industrial community with a new open-source, cross-platform, high-performance simulator compatible with ROS for industrial robots. The simulator will use state-of-the-art 3D rendering technologies, such as Physically Based Rendering, to generate realistic camera images and depth sensor point-clouds in real-time.

In addition to pilot training, this simulator will assess the usefulness of ROS packages on grasping and motion planning in industrial environments.

Documentation of the webots_ros package: http://wiki.ros.org/webots_ros

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You can also watch this presentation from ROS-Industrial Conference December 2019: