EJS+EjsRL: a free Java tool for advanced Robotics simulation and Computer Vision processing

This paper presents a free Java software platform which enables users to easily create advanced robotic applications together with image processing. This novel tool is composed of two layers: 1) Easy Java Simulations (EJS), an open-source tool which provides support for creating applications with a full 2D/3D interactive graphical interface, and 2) EjsRL, a high-level Java library specifically designed for EJS which provides a complete functional framework for modeling of arbitrary serial-link manipulators and computer vision algorithms. The combination of both components sets up a software architecture which contains a high number of functionalities in the same platform to develop complex simulations in robotics and computer vision fields.The work presented in this paper is supported by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science (MEC) through the research project DPI2008-02647