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Simbody v3.5.1 Release Notes

Release Date: 2015-01-01 // over 9 years ago

  • 🚀 (This patch release fixed an installation problem but is otherwise identical to 3.5.)

    🚀 Release 3.5 focused primarily on infrastructure for and prototyping of rigid contact and impact, and the development of examples showing how to perform task space control using Simbody. These two projects were supported by our DARPA research subcontract with Open Source Robotics Foundation, and were integrated with Gazebo. Further development for rigid contact is required for smooth integration into Simbody; this is planned for Simbody 4.0 and only the bravest among you should attempt to use rigid contact before then. The task space control examples TaskSpaceControl-UR10 and TaskSpaceControl-Atlas can be found in the Simbody examples directory.

    ⚡️ Chris Dembia integrated Nikolaus Hansen's Covariant Matrix Adaptation Evolution Strategy (CMA-ES) global optimizer into Simbody's existing Optimizer class framework, and implemented a multithreading capability for it. This is ready to use and we would like feedback. Thanks to Nikolaus Hansen for allowing us to include this in Simbody under the Apache 2.0 license.

    📚 There were numerous smaller improvements to Simbody since the previous release, in build and installation, documentation, performance, bug fixes, and small enhancements. There are no known incompatibilities with previous release 3.4.1 and we highly recommend that you upgrade. For details, see CHANGELOG.md.

    👀 For installation instructions, see README.md.
    👀 For information on contributing to the Simbody project, see CONTRIBUTING.md.

    If you have questions or problems, please post to the Simbody Forum.