PyBulletFleet

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Simulators
Simulator

A kinematics-first Python simulator for orchestrating large robot fleets, built on PyBullet, aimed at fast N-times real-time testing of fleet software rather than individual robot control.

Source on GitHub: github.com/yuokamoto/PyBulletFleet (opens in a new tab). Facts read at commit 6551125 (opens in a new tab).

Licenses

Code: Apache-2.0 (opens in a new tab)
Read by Robotheca from LICENSE (opens in a new tab) (Apache-2.0) at commit 6551125 (opens in a new tab), on 22 Oct 2026.
Commercial use: Yes

What it does

Steps robots by teleporting them to their next pose without calling physics stepping, which removes the physics bottleneck at fleet scale.
Targets fleet algorithms such as task allocation, traffic control and path planning, tested with hundreds to thousands of robots.
Offers a ROS 2 Jazzy bridge exposing per-robot and fleet-level topics, services and actions, plus an Open-RMF adapter.
Full PyBullet physics can be enabled per scenario when contact, grasping or conveyor dynamics matter.
Loads robot models by name from local files, pybullet_data and the robot_descriptions package.
Ships demos, including 100-robot grid, patrol, pick-and-drop and arm scenes, runnable through a pybullet-fleet command-line tool.

Written by Robotheca from the project's README (opens in a new tab) at commit 6551125.

Getting started

Difficulty: Intermediate
Hardware it needs, as the project states it: The ROS 2 bridge targets Ubuntu 24.04 with ROS 2 Jazzy.
How to start: The project's README (opens in a new tab)

Maintenance

Status: Active: a commit in the last 90 days
Newest commit: 21 Oct 2026 on main
Latest release: v0.8.0 (1 Sept 2026)

Checked on GitHub on 22 Oct 2026.

Robots that can run it

No robot on Robotheca is linked to it yet. Links come from a robot's robot.yaml, from its dependency files read as text, or from Robotheca's editors.

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