Media

Videos

A compilation of simulated scenarios used in several research laboratories.	Using the ROS RVIZ visualisation tool to display a simulated camera’s video stream
Some examples of integration between MORSE and ROS in a human-robot interaction context.	MORSE can take care of navigation if you do not want to manage this part.
Here, a robot builds a 2.5D terrain model map from simulated stereo-cameras, and uses it to navigate.	Several robots following each other. Each robot streams its camera, here with YARP.
MORSE can be used to test human-robot interaction scenarios, where a human avatar is controlled as in a video game.	MORSE simulates a Velodyne used to build a map of the environment.

More videos are available on the Blender for Robotics Vimeo group.

Screenshots

Simulation of ground-air cooperation.	Real-time simulation of a SICK laser range finder in an indoor environment.
An ATRV in an outdoor scenario.	Cooperation between a helicopter and a submarine for mine hunting.
Simulation of human-robot interaction: the robot tracks the human’s posture.	The MORSE interface (crude Blender :-) )

MORSE related academic publications

• Simulating Complex Robotic Scenarios with MORSE, SIMPAR 2012:

  @inproceedings{morseSIMPAR2012,
    author    = {Gilberto Echeverria and
                             Séverin Lemaignan and
                             Arnaud Degroote and
                             Simon Lacroix and
                             Michael Karg and
                             Pierrick Koch and
                             Charles Lesire and
                             Serge Stinckwich},
    title     = {Simulating Complex Robotic Scenarios with MORSE},
    booktitle = {SIMPAR},
    year      = {2012},
    pages     = {197-208},
    ee        = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34327-8_20},
  }
  

• Human-robot interaction in the MORSE simulator, HRI 2012:

  @inproceedings{lemaignan2012human,
    title={Human-robot interaction in the MORSE simulator},
    author={Lemaignan, S. and Echeverria, G. and Karg, M. and Mainprice, J. and Kirsch, A. and Alami, R.},
    booktitle={Proceedings of the seventh annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-Robot Interaction},
    pages={181--182},
    year={2012},
    organization={ACM}
  }
  

• Modular Open Robots Simulation Engine: MORSE, ICRA 2011:

  @InProceedings{morseICRA2011,
      author = {G. Echeverria and N. Lassabe and A. Degroote and S. Lemaignan}
      title = {Modular OpenRobots Simulation Engine: MORSE}
      booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE ICRA},
      year = {2011}
  }
  

• Presentation of MORSE at the Blender Conference 2010: slides and video

• Presentation at the European Robotics Forum 2011: general overview of MORSE and MORSE-ROS implementation