Robotics and Simulations

O3DE’s real-time rendering capabilities and advanced physics system make it a choice tool for robotics developers, with the ability to render immersive environments, and simulate lifelike robotic behavior and interactions.

With O3DE’s unique, modular architecture, you can consume only what you need and easily customize the engine using Gems. Gems are modules that contain libraries with standard interfaces and assets. Most systems in O3DE are contained in Gems, so you can pick and choose which functionality to include in your project based on your specific requirements. Using Gems, you can add custom functionality, or further extend the engine.

“With O3DE, you have the modularity and configurability to select exactly what you need … where you can enable and disable different aspects of the simulator for your use case.” —Lars Gleim, Senior Research Engineer, Huawei

Due to its novel, modular framework, O3DE can be adapted for a broad range of robotics and simulation use cases. The O3DE ROS 2 Gem integrates O3DE with the Robot Operating System (ROS), and contains a number of components to build robotic simulations:

• Sensors: 2D and 3D lidar, RGBD camera, IMU, Wheel Odometry, GNSS, Contact.
• Control components for mobile bases (Differential drive and Ackermann Steering) as well as for manipulator arms (Including Joint Trajectory action server) and finger and vacuum grippers.
• Utilities including the Robot Importer, components for dynamic spawning, simulation clock and transforms.

In addition, the O3DE RGL Gem provides GPU-accelerated Lidar simulation for 30x faster performance.

O3DE is a powerful tool for creating 3D environments and simulations, allowing for quick, lifelike prototyping of robotic systems. In O3DE, you can create entities with the White Box component, using its edit functionality to rapidly sketch 3D assets to serve as building blocks for a level.

“It was very good to prototype a robotic simulation quickly with O3DE and ROS 2, and we were even surprised at how little effort it took to produce something beautiful that tells a story. To ramp up and build something on it took us just one week. Of course, we are quite experienced doing that. But I think in terms of what we accomplished in just one week, it was pretty impressive.” —Adam Dąbrowski, VP of Robotics and Simulations, Robotec.ai