Open Dynamics Engine

The Open Dynamics Engine is used for simulating the dynamic interactions between bodies in space. It is not tied to any particular graphics package although it includes a basic one called drawstuff.{{Cite web |title=odedevs / ode / drawstuff |url=https://bitbucket.org/odedevs/ode/src/master/drawstuff/ |access-date=2023-04-08 |website=bitbucket.org}} It supports several geometries: box, sphere, capsule (cylinder capped with hemispheres), triangle mesh, cylinder and heightmap.

Higher level environments that allow non-programmers access to ODE include Player Project, Webots, Opensimulator, anyKode Marilou and CoppeliaSim.

ODE is a popular choice for robotics simulation applications, with scenarios such as mobile robot locomotion{{Cite book |last1=Brezina |first1=Tomas |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AZu-yVo1MIsC&dq=%22Open+Dynamics+Engine%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA215 |title=Recent Advances in Mechatronics: 2008 - 2009 |last2=Jablonski |first2=Ryszard |date=2009-11-29 |publisher=Springer Science & Business Media |isbn=978-3-642-05022-0 |language=en}}{{Cite journal |last1=Yıldırım |first1=Şahin |last2=Arslan |first2=Erdem |date=2018-08-01 |title=ODE (Open Dynamics Engine) based stability control algorithm for six legged robot |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0263224118302422 |journal=Measurement |language=en |volume=124 |pages=367–377 |doi=10.1016/j.measurement.2018.03.057 |s2cid=70264565 |issn=0263-2241|url-access=subscription }} and simple grasping. ODE has some drawbacks in this field, for example the method of approximating friction and poor support for joint-damping.{{Cite book |last1=Drumwright |first1=Evan |last2=Hsu |first2=John |last3=Koenig |first3=Nathan |last4=Shell |first4=Dylan |title=Simulation, Modeling, and Programming for Autonomous Robots |chapter=Extending Open Dynamics Engine for Robotics Simulation |date=2010 |editor-last=Ando |editor-first=Noriaki |editor2-last=Balakirsky |editor2-first=Stephen |editor3-last=Hemker |editor3-first=Thomas |editor4-last=Reggiani |editor4-first=Monica |editor5-last=von Stryk |editor5-first=Oskar |chapter-url=https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-17319-6_7 |series=Lecture Notes in Computer Science |volume=6472 |language=en |location=Berlin, Heidelberg |publisher=Springer |pages=38–50 |doi=10.1007/978-3-642-17319-6_7 |isbn=978-3-642-17319-6}}

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• OPAL – the Open Physics Abstraction Layer, originally built on top of ODE
• Physics Abstraction Layer – The original Physics Abstraction Layer
• Newton Game Dynamics
• Bullet – another open source physics engine used in commercial games and movies
• Chipmunk – a similar physics engine intended for 2D applications
• Vortex (software)
• Project Chrono

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• Bitbucket: [https://bitbucket.org/odedevs/ode ODE project page]
• [http://ode-wiki.org/wiki/ Open Dynamics Engine (ODE) Community Wiki] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303092441/http://ode-wiki.org/wiki/ |date=2016-03-03 }}
• (Old) [http://www.ode.org/ Official ODE Homepage]
• (Obsolete) [https://sourceforge.net/projects/pyode/ Python-ODE Bindings (pyode)]
• [http://www.ode4j.org/ The ode4j project, a Java port of ODE]
• [https://bitbucket.org/horizongir/ode.net/ The ODE.NET project, a C# wrapper for ODE] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160915115113/https://bitbucket.org/horizongir/ode.net/ |date=2016-09-15 }}

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