A complete modeling environment and scene simulator, complete with robots subject to the laws of physics

Marilou Robotics Studio is designed to help as many people as possible to accelerate their robotics development projects.

Our effort has focused almost entirely on developing an engine that reproduces, with an extremely high level of reality, the behavior of sensors and actuators with respect to real properties in a physical environment.

Research and Education
Marilou lets you design complex scenarios. Use Marilou to create and test your algorithms on entire fleets of robots without having to invest in hardware, or deal with breakage and limited resources.

Reuse the models you create for robots, sensors, actuators, and surface properties from one project to the next throughout your entire teaching program. Take advantage of the synergy generated by combining your applications via centralized and/or distributed architecture, working as easily in real-time or accelerated simulation.

Professionnals
Marilou gives you a way to experiment with your industrial applications in all kinds of situations. Save time setting up your test plans. Improve reliability by testing your applications in situations that may be hard or impossible to reproduce in reality.

With Marilou you'll be able to run your algorithms under different scenarios and configurations in just a few mouse clicks. Your team will be able to work on a given robot or test area simultaneously. Benefit from sharing and enhancing equipment, robot, object, world, and embedded device libraries.

Hobbyists
Marilou is a robotics environment that lets your imagination wander, allowing you to design robots, worlds, and robotics applications at no additional cost. Join the Marilou community and share your experience.

Using Marilou Robotics Studio you will save time and you will be able work autonomously, without having to deal with problems such as equipment, cost, space, or time.

Here are some key features of "Marilou Robotics Studio":

Modeling
· Totally graphical handling of robots and environments models (physics parts and 3D models)
· Modeling helpers, Refactoring tools, several document viewpoints
· Rigid bodies and n-axis joints
· Mechanical constraints
· Surface properties (reflection, shock, friction, incidence, rebound, behavior with infra-red or ultrasound ...)
· Hierarchy and complex assemblies

Libraries
· Embedded robotic components: motors, servo motors, odometers, distance sensors (US, IR, Laser), bumpers, actuating cylinders / jack, air pressure forces, cameras, panoramic spherical cameras, GPS, accelerometers, and more.
· Off-the-shelf robotic equipment
· Existing and virtual robots
· Worlds

Programming
· Robot programming using various languages (C/C++, VB#, J#, C#, C++ CLI and URBI)
· Compatible with Matlab, Java, IRAI Automgen and Intempora RT-Maps
· Real/simulated compatibility layer on supported robots (allowing you to work with the same language and software tools as on real robots).

Simulation
· Real-time or accelerated simulation (RT-Multiplier)
· Multi-robots
· Multiple embedded applications, centralized or distributed
· Acquisition/measurement cycles as low as 1 ms
· Interactions with running simulation


Requirements:

· .NET Framework 2.0
· The latest DirectX


Limitations:

· 30 days trial
· Limited to 4 levels, 800 entities, 400 devices and 6 documents.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Marilou Editor:
· Powerful Refactor tool: let you change the selection type/appearance using the “Refactor To”. Select a physics box, Refactor to Cylinder 3D -> recreate a cylinder 3D using the selection properties, reconnecting bodies, joints and attached 3D entities!
· Device camera: let you create panoramic spherical cameras using cube mapping (you video card must support render to texture and cube mapping)
· VRML importer improved can import Solidworks exported files (simple files, to be continued …)
· PhysicsMesh loading time decreased (about 60%). Good optimisation for Solidworks imports …
· Big projects (projects that contains a lot of phx and/or a lot of worlds) are loading up to 70% faster
· PHX that contains native triangles meshes geoms, render triangle meshes or imported meshes from Solidworks are loading up to 60 úster (these mesh geoms not include mesh from file .X or .obj)
· Fixed: 3D update bug when check/uncheck "Always as transparent" 3d property.
· Plugins devices can now be disabled by user (like Core devices)
· Plugins devices toolbox improved
· New device “Lightsource” -> attach light source to 3D light object
· AirPressure system is now working with 'box' and 'cone' zone styles
· Default rotation mode is now global
· Configuration: Option "disable cylinder/cylinder pseudo collider" is checked by default
· Fixed : Joints “reverse bodies” command bug
· Viewpoint settings box improved
· Display Triangles normals for physics triangles/mesh geoms (useful for choosing “interior/exterior” physics management)
· Exec:
· Improved entities mouse selection
· AirPressure rays show where force is applied and reduce the ray lengths
· AirPressure system is now working with 'box' and 'cone' zone styles
· Fixed: breakable joints state were ignored if body1 was set to
· Fixed: camera device: aperture, near and far planes were ignored (from viewpoint settings)
· Latest ODE updates
· 3D Engine:
· Fixed: 3D mesh textures were able to "move" on the mesh surface due to a residual previously used texture offset
· Fixed: video memory and system handles consumption on several 3D objects
· Fixed: 3D object elimination were bad with 'exotics' windows size
· Back buffers and Stencil buffers properties are matching even on old video cards
· 3D engine faster
· MODA:
· New Device Lightsource
· New Group DevicesGroupLightsources
· URBI:
· updated with engine v1.5
· new Led & Lights UObjects
· Doc:
· Improved documentation (missing Refactor tool)