V-REP3.6.0 rev1

V-REP is a comprehensive application that you can use to simulate, test, evaluate and interface with robotic systems. It can be used standalone or embedded into a client app.

Simple setup and pro-grade interface

After a brief and uneventful setup operation that shouldn't impose any difficulties, you are greeted by a professional-looking interface, made from a large window which contains multiple panes, menus and buttons.You can browse a list with multiple models that you can insert into the project, such as household, nature, office, people, tools, vehicles, equipment, robots, furniture and infrastructure items.

Create and manipulate objects and scenes

It's possible to morph, copy, paste, delete and cut items, group, ungroup, merge and divide them, disable solid rendering, change the orientation of the bounding box, as well as add primitive shapes, joints, camera, mirror, light, dummy objects, graphs and proximity sensors, among others.Additionally, you can run a real simulation and set the multiplication factor, load custom user interfaces, import data from Mesh, CSV or Heightfield files, insert and manage scripts, modify environment properties (e.g. background, ambient light, fog), and so on. These are just part of the features provided by V-REP.

Evaluation and conclusion

We haven't come across any stability issues in our tests, thanks to the fact that the software application didn't freeze, crash or display error messages. It had a good response time to commands and consumed a normal amount of CPU and RAM.Taking into account its advanced options and configuration settings, V-REP proves to be a resourceful tool for simulating, testing, evaluating and interfacing with robotic systems.