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Shadow Dextrous Hand Simulation
We're working hard on bringing a ROS integrated Gazebo model for the hand. This way you'll be able to test your algorithm in a real simulator before trying them on the real hardware! The Gazebo interface is currently being tested, so stay tuned. As soon as it is released, you'll be able to download it from our launchpad page: https://launchpad.net/sr-ros-interface
Here are some ways to model the Shadow Hand to see what it could do for your system.
The gazebo Hand model (5.4Mb) file is a model that can be used in the Open Source simulator Gazebo. The model contains controllers so you can interface it with player or develop your own interface. The archive file also contains two simple example of python and C++ program controlling the gazebo model through its player interface. Click here to View the gazebo install howto.
If you have any problem with the simulation tools please contact the hand list.
The hand-full-reduced (7,512Kb) file is a model that can be used in the Open Source animation package Blender (available from www.blender.org). It has all of the joints articulated, so you can do animations of the joints.
GraspIt is an older system that models other robot Hands that may be of some interest. GraspIt is downloadable via http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~cmatei/graspit/.
If you produce an interesting animation with the Hand, please contact us hand@shadowrobot.com and we'll see if we can put the results here.
