README

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                    OpenRobots Simulator
        (c) LAAS-CNRS/ONERA 2009-2010 LAAS-CNRS 2011-2013
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MORSE (Modular OpenRobots simulation Engine) is a Blender-based robotic
simulator.  It is a BSD-licensed project (cf LICENSE).

It is meant to be versatile (simulation of field robotics, indoor
robotics, human robot interaction, multi-robots systems) and allow
simulation at different levels (from raw cameras to high-level
semantics).

The communication with the simulator is middleware independent. At the
moment, MORSE supports the following middlewares:

- ROS
- Yarp
- pocolibs
- MOOS
- socket

I/ Installation
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Please read INSTALL.

II/ Documentation
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The MORSE documentation is available from the doc/ directory.  It is
available as well online, on the MORSE website:

http://morse.openrobots.org/doc

You can also subscribe to morse-users@laas.fr

III/ How to contribute
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Even if the code-base is not stabilized yet, contribution to MORSE are
more than welcome.

You can contribute new robot models, new sensors, we have a TODO list
for the Blender game engine itself...

Feel free to subscribe to morse-dev@laas.fr and ask!

Code is available on GitHub on https://github.com/morse-simulator/morse

Feel free to fork, pull request or submit issues to improve the project!

IV/ Acknowledgements
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The development of MORSE is partially funded by the Foundation RTRA
within the ROSACE project framework, and by DGA
<http://www.defense.gouv.fr/dga> through the ACTION
<http://action.onera.fr> project.