Community:Science/Robotics/COLLADA

COLLADA for Robotics

Here is a collection of random COLLADA-related information that may be useful for Robotics.

Programs, libraries

• OpenRAVE has some COLLADA 1.5 support (notes)
• The GRASP Simulator built on OpenRAVE and added some more 1.5 support (details). Need to check if this has been merged into OpenRAVE trunk.
• http://wikis.itec.uka.de/grasp/wiki/Robot_Editor (announcement)
• URDF to COLLADA
• OpenCOLLADA, collada-dom (general libraries, not specific to robotics)
• ASSIMP is a very promissing library to load 3D assets in a wide range of format, including Collada.
• OpenSceneGraph is an open source high performance 3D graphics toolkit with Collada 1.41 support

Discussions

• Notes on COLLADA importer/exporter in Blender.
• KDL future plans with COLLADA
• Divided kinematic chains clarification
• COLLADA 1.5 examples

Blender user pages and repository

• COLLADA support for Blender GSOC 2009 notes from Chingachgook
• Notes from Kazanbas, including User:Kazanbas/Collada support completeness
• COLLADA in soc-2009-chingachgook, trunk (handy to see who is working on COLLADA).