Contributing to DART

DART is a collaborative project, and we welcome contributions from anyone who is interested in helping make the project better. Whether you’re interested in fixing bugs, adding new features, improving documentation, or something else entirely, we appreciate your contributions.

Getting Help

If you’re looking to contribute to DART but need help getting started, there are many resources available to you. Here are some places you can turn to for help:

• DART documentation

• Issue tracker on GitHub

• Feature requests on GitHub

• Community showcases on GitHub

Of course, you are welcome to reach out to us directly if you need further assistance. We are always happy to help!

Credits

DART was initially created by C. Karen Liu and Mike Stilman in 2011 at Georgia Tech, and has since evolved with the contributions of various institutions and individuals. We would like to extend our thanks and appreciation to the following institutions and individuals who have contributed to DART:

• Humanoid Lab, Georgia Tech Research Corporation

• Personal Robotics Lab, Carnegie Mellon University

• Graphics Lab, Georgia Tech Research Corporation

• Personal Robotics Lab, University of Washington

• Open Source Robotics Foundation

• The Movement Lab, Stanford University

and:

• C. Karen Liu: project creator, multibody dynamics, constraint resolution, tutorials

• Mike Stilman: project creator

• Siddhartha S. Srinivasa: project advisor

• Jeongseok Lee: project director, multibody dynamics, constraint resolution, collision detection, tutorials

• Michael X. Grey: project director, extensive API improvements, inverse kinematics, gui::osg, tutorials

• Tobias Kunz: former project director, motion planner

• Sumit Jain: multibody dynamics

• Yuting Ye: multibody dynamics, GUI

• Michael Koval: uri, resource retriever, bug fixes

• Ana C. Huamán Quispe: urdf parser

• Chen Tang: collision detection

• Matthew Dutton: build and bug fixes

• Eric Huang: build and bug fixes

• Pushkar Kolhe: early DART build system design

• Saul Reynolds-Haertle: examples, bug fixes

• Arash Rouhani: build fixes

• Kristin Siu: integrators, bug fixes

• Steven Peters: build improvements and fixes

• Can Erdogan: planning, examples

• Jie Tan: lcp solver, renderer

• Yunfei Bai: build and bug fixes

• Konstantinos Chatzilygeroudis: mimic joint, OSG shadows, shape deep copy, build and bug fixes

• Sehoon Ha: early DART data structure design, pydart

• Donny Ward: build fix

• Andrew Price: build fix

• Eric Tobis: build fix

• Jonathan Martin: build fix

and many others have contributed bug fixes, documentation, and other improvements to DART, which can be found in the DART GitHub repository.

Note

If you have contributed to DART and your name is missing from the list above, or if your contributions are not accurately reflected, or any issue is found, please let us know by opening an issue on GitHub or contacting us directly. We apologize for any oversights and will make every effort to update the list in a timely manner. Thank you for your contributions to DART!