Request for grasp planning capabilities

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ljklonepiece
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Joined: 10 Oct 2013, 14:51

Request for grasp planning capabilities

Post by ljklonepiece »

Hi Marc,

V-REP has provided path planning and motion planning functionality and both have serve their purpose quite well.
In the aspect of robot grasping task, it will be great if you can incorporate grasping planning capabilities in the future release, one example of grasping planner is the GraspIt!
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~cmatei/graspit/

Thanks a lot

Yours sincerely
Juekun

coppelia
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Joined: 14 Dec 2012, 00:25

Re: Request for grasp planning capabilities

Post by coppelia »

Hello Juekun,

the main reason for integrating path planning, motion planning, kinematics, etc. in V-REP is:
  • to be able to serve 90% of the users. Most users do not want to have to study, install, fix, etc. complicated libraries. They just want to use them in a simple fashion, in order to solve another problem.
  • to be able to offer a portable functionality: no need to install other packages that might be incompatible depending on the platform, that needs to be installed, compiled, etc.
as such, we are aware that there is a lot of room for improvement. In those cases, it is still possible to loosely integrate other software packages, e.g. via the plugin mechanism. We are also happy to support people in that endeavour. But we have to be careful to continue developing V-REP in a balanced manner, and to keep it easily maintainable over the years ;)

Cheers

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