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A fast and flexible implementation of Rigid Body Dynamics algorithms and their analytical derivatives

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Implement and test advanced physics simulations for robotics and dynamic systems.

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A fast and flexible implementation of Rigid Body Dynamics algorithms and their analytical derivatives

pinocchio has 3.6k stars on GitHub. It has been forked 556 times. pinocchio is written mainly in C++. It has been in active development since 2014. pinocchio is available under the BSD-2-Clause license. Its main topics are analytical-derivatives, automatic-differentiation, c-plus-plus, casadi.

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What is pinocchio?

A fast and flexible implementation of Rigid Body Dynamics algorithms and their analytical derivatives

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pinocchio is an open-source project. It is released under the BSD-2-Clause license.

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Yes. pinocchio is free and open source — you can use, modify and self-host it.

What license does pinocchio use?

pinocchio is available under the BSD-2-Clause license.

What language is pinocchio written in?

pinocchio is written mainly in C++.

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