Survey of popular robotics simulators, frameworks, and toolkits

Robotic simulators, frameworks, and related toolkits are very important in today´s research community. The need to accurately simulate movements, algorithms, and interactions with the real world is quickly becoming a major research focus as humans and robots interact in more situations and differently than ever before. This is a survey of popular robotics simulators and some of the main frameworks and toolkits that are used to help bring robotics simulations to a one-to-one relationship with real-world interaction.