Isaac Sim, the robotics simulation application built on NVIDIA Omniverse, is a collection of extensions.
But you are not limited to these extensions, any user can build their own set of extensions and add them to Isaac Sim. For more information about extensions and how to create one please check out the followings in the documentation: What is an extension How to build an extension
This thread is to encourage Isaac Sim users to create an Isaac Sim extension pool developed by external users.
If you have created an extension for your own project, we, Isaac Sim team invite you to share a link to your extensions in this forum, so that other users could also benefit.
This is the suggested format for creating a topic for your extension:
Set the title of the topic by “External Extensions: The name of your extension”
Add your github info or any additional info in the body of the topic
Add the “external-extension” tag plus other related tags to your topic.
Add the title of your extension as a reply in this thread, so users can see the list here.
You want to encourage Isaac Sim users to develop their own extensions. Good for you! I think this is also a necessity because the out-of-the-box functionality is a bit low.
But how about stimulating current ROS-users to become Isaac (Sim) users by writing more elaborate “howtos”. I see toni.sm is doing its part sharing extensions (kudos to you!) .
I myself am a ROS-user but not really happy with the stability and time required for debugging, getting all dependencies right, etc. So I would like to use Isaac Sim/SDK, but I am held back right now by the lack of proper documentation (and support).
Is there a roadmap for Isaac Sim/SDK available, also for documentation of the features ?
We have added a good set of ROS tutorials with the 2021.2 release, please check them out, and share the issues that you are facing while using Isaac Sim with ROS
My goal is not to use ROS with Isaac Sim, but to switch to another platform because I do not like ROS. Maybe switcht to Isaac SDK. Things holding me back is for example are:
There is no documentation on :
How to make a holonomic drive (with 6 wheels)
How to make a 4 wheel fixed drive
Integrate GPS-data with odometry (instead of wheel-encoders which I do not have)
If you can point me in the right direction here would be great.
Are these extensions supported for Isaac Sim 2022.2.0? I am trying to control a mobile manipulator with Moveit and it seems like these extensions are well suited to this task, however when I try to install the extension, I am getting errors regarding dependencies that could not be resolved. Specifically, I am getting the error saying that it cannot find the extension “omni.isaac.ros_bridge_ui”. This extension does not seem to exist. Is the replacement for this using “omni.isaac.ros_bridge” instead?
Here is the error that I am getting when trying to install the semu.robotics.ros_bridge_ui extension. In the config it seems to have a dependency on omni.isaac.ros_bridge_ui but both the installer and myself are unable to find this extension under the extension browser. The closest match that I have found in name is one called omni.isaac.ros_bridge.