MVSim: a lightweight MultiVehicle Simulator
Lightweight, realistic dynamical simulator for 2D (“2.5D”) vehicles and robots. It is tailored to analysis of vehicle dynamics, wheel-ground contact forces, and accurate simulation of typical robot sensors.
This project includes C++ and Python libraries, the standalone CLI application mvsim,
and ROS 1 and ROS 2 nodes, and it is licensed under the permissive 3-clause BSD License.
If you use MVSim in your work, feel free of citing the MVSim SoftwareX paper (or the ArXiV preprint):
Citation in BibTex format
@article{blanco2023mvsim,
title = {MultiVehicle Simulator (MVSim): Lightweight dynamics simulator for multiagents and mobile robotics research},
journal = {SoftwareX},
volume = {23},
pages = {101443},
year = {2023},
issn = {2352-7110},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2023.101443},
url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352711023001395},
author = {José-Luis Blanco-Claraco and Borys Tymchenko and Francisco José Mañas-Alvarez and Fernando Cañadas-Aránega and Ángel López-Gázquez and José Carlos Moreno}
}
Documentation credits:
Borys Tymchenko @spsancti
Jose Luis Blanco Claraco @jlblancoc