Survey of popular robotics simulators, frameworks, and toolkits

Abstract

Robotic simulators, frameworks, and related toolkits are very important in today's research community. The need to accurately simulate movements, algorithms, and interactions with the real world is quickly becoming a major research focus as humans and robots interact in more situations and differently than ever before. This is a survey of popular robotics simulators and some of the main frameworks and toolkits that are used to help bring robotics simulations to a one-to-one relationship with real-world interaction.