Nvidia boosts ROS2 in Isaac Sim for robotics
Nvidia has made major updates to its Isaac Sim robotics simulation tool to build and test virtual robots in realistic environments.
The updates announced at CES 2023 include more support for simulating all ROS2 operating system software as well as more sensor models.
To minimize the difference between results observed in a simulated world versus the real world, physically accurate sensor models are key. Isaac Sim can now render physically accurate data from sensors in real time.
In the case of a simulated lidar, ray tracing provides more accurate sensor data under various lighting conditions or in response to reflective materials.
For the large community of Robot Operating System (ROS) developers, Isaac Sim upgrades support for ROS 2 Humble and Windows. All of the Isaac ROS software can now be used in simulation.
Isaac Sim also provides numerous new simulation-ready 3D assets, which are critical to building physically accurate simulated environments. Everything from warehouse parts to popular robots come ready to go, so developers and users can quickly start building.
Significant new capabilities for robotics researchers include advances in Isaac Gym for reinforcement learning and Isaac Cortex for collaborative robot programming. Additionally, a new tool, Isaac ORBIT, provides simulation operating environments and benchmarks for robot learning and motion planning.
Human simulation
Isaac Sim’s new people simulation capability allows human characters to be added to a warehouse or manufacturing facility and tasked with executing familiar behaviours such as stacking packages or pushing carts. Many of the most common behaviours are already supported, so simulating them is as simple as issuing a command.
The large and complex robotics ecosystem spans multiple industries, from logistics and manufacturing to retail, energy, sustainable farming and more.
The Isaac robotics platform provides advanced AI and simulation software as well as accelerated compute capabilities to the robotics ecosystem. Over a million developers and more than a thousand companies rely on one or many parts of it.
In Europe, Festo uses Isaac Cortex to simplify programming for cobots and transfer simulated skills to the physical robots while Fraunhofer is developing advanced AMRs mobile robots using the physically accurate and full-fidelity visualization features.
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