Tools for dynamics simulation of robots: a survey based on user feedback

Understand

The number of tools for dynamics simulation has grown in the last years.

• It is necessary for the robotics community to have elements to ponder which of the available tools is the best for their research.
• As a complement to an objective and quantitative comparison, difficult to obtain since not all the tools are open-source, an element of evaluation is user feedback.
• With this goal in mind, we created an online survey about the use of dynamical simulation in robotics.