Stonefish simulator provides a versitale, capable, and modern alternative to UUV simulator. It's installation and usage is pretty straight forward. The documentation for the stonefish library resides at https://stonefish.readthedocs.io/.
Stonefish simulator is shipped as a library. It's core functionality doesn't depend on ROS. It requires a wrapper executable to run. This repository contains wrapper for stonefish, forked from original stonefish_ros repository. This repository is maintained by University of Rhode Island Smart Ocean Systems Laboratory.
Attention: This package is a modified version of stonefish_ros repository.
This package delivers a ROS interface for the Stonefish library. It also includes a standard simulator node, which loads the simulation scenario from a scenario description file (XML). The included parser extends the standard functionality of the Stonefish library to enable ROS style search for files, resolution of arguments as well as a complete message interface.
The original stonefish_ros package depends on open-access & proprietary cola2_msgs package. Stonefish MVP package offers an alternative stonefish simulator wrapper that doesn't depend on proprietary packages.
Documentation for stonefish_mvp resides at https://uri-ocean-robotics.github.io/stonefish_mvp
The source code for stonefish_ros package is at https://github.com/patrykcieslak/stonefish_ros.
Stonefish simulator software and stonefish_ros wrapper were written and is continuously developed by Patryk Cieślak.
If you find this software useful in your research, please cite:
Patryk Cieślak, "Stonefish: An Advanced Open-Source Simulation Tool Designed for Marine Robotics, With a ROS Interface", In Proceedings of MTS/IEEE OCEANS 2019, June 2019, Marseille, France
@inproceedings{stonefish,
author = {Cie{\'s}lak, Patryk},
booktitle = {OCEANS 2019 - Marseille},
title = {{Stonefish: An Advanced Open-Source Simulation Tool Designed for Marine Robotics, With a ROS Interface}},
month = jun,
year = {2019},
doi={10.1109/OCEANSE.2019.8867434}}
This work was part of a project titled ”Force/position control system to enable compliant manipulation from a floating I-AUV”, which received funding from the European Community H2020 Programme, under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement no. 750063. The work was continued under a project titled ”EU Marine Robots”, which received funding from the European Community H2020 Programme, grant agreement no. 731103.
This is free software, published under the General Public License v3.0.