Welcome to OpenGRASP

A Simulation Toolkit for grasping and dexterous manipulation

OpenGRASP [1] is an open source simulation toolkit for grasping and dexterous manipulation hosted on SourceForge. It is based on OpenRAVE modular architecture, that supports the creation and addition of new functionality and the integration of existing and widely used technologies and standards.

OpenGRASP has been developed within the GRASP project funded by the European Comunity’s Seven Framework Programme.

Toolkit modules

The toolkit consist on the following modules:

Robot Editor

The Notes is a modelling tool that allows easily to create new or convert existing models of robot hands.

Find out more about the Robot Editor:

• Notes
• Robot Editor
  • Features
  • COLLADA File Format for Robot Models
  • Software requirements
  • Download
  • Getting started
  • Tutorials

Models

There are various Robots modeled with the Robot Editor and different object models that are available to download.

• Models
  • COLLADA Robot Models
  • Object Models

FISICAS

FISICAS is an abstraction layer for some of the most popular physics engines, providing an unified interface for them. At the moment, it supports two physics engines widely used: Bullet and ODE.

• FISICAS
  • Download
  • Getting started

OpenRAVE Plugins

The core of the OpenGRASP simulator is OpenRAVE. Following its design, different kind of plugins have been created such as sensors, actuators and physics engines.

• OpenRAVE plugins
  • Features
  • Download
  • Plugins available

Benchmarking Suite

Provides benchmarking capability through a framwork that builds ontop of OpenRAVE.

• The OpenGRASP Benchmark Suite
  • Introduction
  • Installation
  • Using the Software
  • Documentation and Tutorials

Publications

[1]	León, S. Ulbrich, R. Diankov, G. Puche, M. Przybylski, A. Morales, T. Asfour, S. Moisio, J. Bohg, J. Kuffner, and R. Dillmann, OpenGRASP: A Toolkit for Robot Grasping Simulation, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.

[2]	Bohg, M. Johnson-Roberson, B. León, J. Felip, X. Gratal, N. Bergström, D. Kragic, and A. Morales. Mind the gap - robotic grasping under incomplete observation. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 2011. To appear.

[3]	Ulbrich, D. Kappler, T. Asfour, N. Vahrenkamp, A. Bierbaum, M. Przybylski, R. Dillmann. The OpenGRASP Benchmarking Suite: An Environment for the Comparative Analysis of Grasping and Dexterous Manipulation IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2011