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}
}
Installing

How to install or build from sources

First steps

Launch your first simulations and play around…

World XML format specifications

All the details about how to design simulated worlds and robots

MVSIM Simulating Jackal Robot in ROS2

Documentation credits:

GitHub repository

Link to the main Git repository