A little off topic but is there a good library for physics simulations that involve cloth modeling.
Open-sourcing the MuJoCo physics simulator for robotics
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Re: Open-sourcing the MuJoCo physics simulator for robotics
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
Working in undergrad isn't a common thing?
Well, if you're working to pay your rent, bills, and food expenses, and you're only working part time (because you're a full time undergraduate student), you may not have a lot left over to pay for software licenses.
which is precisely the reason I went with linux: so I could maximize my hardware resources while eliminating license costs. By not buying whatever MS compiler in those days, I was able to max out my workstation with 32MB RAM.
Re: Open-sourcing the MuJoCo physics simulator for robotics
#53I wish someone would do this for MATLAB.
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#54> MuJoCo is a second-order continuous-time simulator, implementing the full Equations of Motion
Are there any books describing how to implement this kind of physics engine?
Re: Open-sourcing the MuJoCo physics simulator for robotics
#55I tend to be more than a little skeptical of organizations like DeepMind and (especially) OpenAI lately, when it comes to their pledges to democratize their advances in AI/ML/robotics. This, however, is 100% a great move by DeepMind in the support of the community as a whole. Kudos to the team, and a big thanks as well.
Pretty sure this was just a reaction to losing so much mindshare to Brax since that came out.
Brax is dope, but it's a long long way from feature parity with MuJoCo, which is world class.
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wonderful that you had thousands of dollars as an undergrad to be able to do so.
Working in undergrad isn't a common thing?
Working in undergrad and having thousands left over after paying for food and a place to sleep certainly can't be assumed to be. That's where my pay went.
Re: Open-sourcing the MuJoCo physics simulator for robotics
#57> MuJoCo is a second-order continuous-time simulator, implementing the full Equations of Motion Are there any books describing how to implement this kind of physics engine?
Re: Open-sourcing the MuJoCo physics simulator for robotics
#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
Working in undergrad isn't a common thing?
Working in undergrad and having thousands left over after paying for food and a place to sleep certainly can't be assumed to be. That's where my pay went.
I was very fortunate to not have to pay tuition or board, but if I had to, I wouldn't have spent my money to pay for that (I would have taken out loans) and still spent my money on RAM.
Re: Open-sourcing the MuJoCo physics simulator for robotics
#59I wish someone would do this for MATLAB.
I assume you know about GNU Octave? I used it years ago for Andrew Ng's ML course. It seems very good.
Re: Open-sourcing the MuJoCo physics simulator for robotics
#60MuJoCo is the standard in much of robotics, and recently in the Deep RL space. When I was learning Deep RL, I edged on what could be done through OpenAI gym, or self-made environments, I decided to begin working with MuJoCo. But for an undergrad student from a developing country, the fees were extremely high. So, I just didn't go forward with Deep RL much. I dabbled for a while and tried using PyBullet. Did not go th…
Pretty sure it had free educational license tho
you could install that license on one physical machine. so say you want to use a Colab or cloud GPU or something, or your university compute cluster, it wouldn’t work.