A fast open-source simulator for poly-articulated systems
Jiminy
Jiminy is a fast and lightweight cross-platform open-source simulator for poly-articulated systems. It was built with two ideas in mind:
- provide a fast yet physically accurate simulator for robotics research.
Jiminy is built around Pinocchio, an open-source fast and efficient kinematics and dynamics library. Jiminy thus uses minimal coordinates and Lagrangian dynamics to simulate an articulated system: this makes Jiminy as close as numerically possible to an analytical solution, without the risk of joint violation.
- build an efficient and flexible platform for machine learning in robotics.
Beside a strong focus on performance to answer machine learning’s need for running computationally demanding distributed simulations, Jiminy offers convenience tools for learning via a dedicated module Gym-Jiminy. It is fully compliant with gym standard API and provides an highly customizable