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What CoppeliaSim is used for in robotics
CoppeliaSim is a general-purpose robot simulation platform with scripting, remote APIs and multiple physics engines.
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A practical check for CoppeliaSim
Choose a physics engine and fix the time step for a repeatable contact experiment. Test the same remote-API command sequence twice and compare object motion. Changing the physics configuration can change the result without changing the controller.
Compatibility and installation
- Developer
- Coppelia Robotics
- License
- Free and commercial editions
- Operating systems
- Linux, Windows, macOS
- ROS support
- ROS 2
- Languages
- C++, Python, Lua
- Installation method
- Official vendor download
Use official installation sources
Use the vendor download page, official documentation, package repository or official GitHub release. Third-party installers and mirrors are not linked from this directory.