Drake
Drake C++ Documentation
Modeling Dynamical Systems

Detailed Description

Drake uses a Simulink-inspired description of dynamical systems.

Includes basic building blocks (adders, integrators, delays, etc), physics models of mechanical systems, and a growing list of sensors, actuators, controllers, planners, estimators.

All dynamical systems derive from the drake::systems::System base class, and must explicitly declare all drake::systems::State, drake::systems::Parameters, and noise/disturbances inputs. The drake::systems::Diagram class permits modeling complex systems from libraries of parts.

For an introduction to using systems in python, see the dynamical_systems tutorial. For a "Hello, World!" example of writing a dynamical system in C++, see simple_continuous_time_system.cc and/or simple_discrete_time_system.cc.

Modules

 System Events
 This page describes how Drake Systems can respond (through an Event) to changes ("triggers") in time, state, and inputs.
 
 Primitives
 General-purpose Systems such as Gain, Multiplexer, Integrator, and LinearSystem.
 
 Controllers
 Implementations of controllers that operate as Systems in a block diagram.
 
 Estimators
 Implementations of estimators that operate as Systems in a block diagram.
 
 Sensors
 Drake provides a variety of capabilities for sensor modeling.
 
 Manipulation
 Systems implementations and related functions that specifically support dexterous manipulation capabilities in robotics.
 
 Message Passing
 Systems for publishing/subscribing to popular message passing ecosystems.
 
 Multibody Systems
 Systems that relate to, or add functionality to, MultibodyPlant.
 
 Perception
 Systems for dealing with perception data and/or wrapping basic perception algorithms.
 
 Discrete Systems
 This page describes discrete systems modeled by difference equations (contrast to continuous systems modeled by ordinary differential equations) as well as considerations for implementing these systems in Drake.
 
 Stochastic Systems
 This page describes the implementation details of modeling a stochastic system in Drake and writing algorithms that explicitly leverage the stochastic modeling framework.
 
 Visualization
 Systems for connecting to external visualization tools/GUIs.
 
 Examples
 The examples contain a number of useful System implementations.
 

Classes

class  SceneGraph< T >
 SceneGraph serves as the nexus for all geometry (and geometry-based operations) in a Diagram. More...
 
class  MultibodyPlant< T >
 MultibodyPlant is a Drake system framework representation (see systems::System) for the model of a physical system consisting of a collection of interconnected bodies. More...