ARS 0.3dev1

Autonomous Robot Simulator (ARS), a physically-accurate open-source simulation suite for research and development of mobile manipulators

ARS is a physically-accurate open-source simulation suite for research and
development of mobile manipulators and, in general, any multi-body system. It
is modular, easy to learn and use, and can be a valuable tool in the process
of robot design, in the development of control and reasoning algorithms, as
well as in teaching and educational activities.

It will encompass a wide range of tools spanning from kinematics and dynamics
simulation to robot interfacing and control.

The software is implemented in Python integrating the Open Dynamics Engine
(ODE) and the Visualization Toolkit (VTK).

REQUIREMENTS
* Python 2.7.3 (any 2.7 should work)
http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.7.3/
* ODE (Open Dynamics Engine) 0.12 (from rev 1864 could work but is untested)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/arsproject/files/ODE/
* VTK (Visualization Toolkit) 5.8.0 (previously was 5.2.1)
http://www.vtk.org/VTK/resources/software.html
https://sourceforge.net/projects/arsproject/files/VTK/

DOCUMENTATION
To generate it, read the corresponding section in the INSTALL file

LICENSE
See the included LICENSE.txt file.
This software is licensed under the OSI-approved "BSD License". To avoid
confusion with the original BSD license from 1990, the FSF refers to it as
"Modified BSD License". Other names include "New BSD", "revised BSD", "BSD-3",
or "3-clause BSD".