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LICENSE

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+BSD 2-Clause License
+
+Copyright (c) 2022-2024 Computational Intelligence Lab, University of Patras, Greece
+Copyright (c) 2023-2024 Laboratory of Automation and Robotics, University of Patras, Greece
+Copyright (c) 2017-2018 LARSEN Team, Inria, France
+Copyright (c) 2017-2024 Konstantinos Chatzilygeroudis
+Copyright (c) 2017-2024 Jean-Baptiste Mouret
+Copyright (c) 2023-2024 Dionis Totsila
+All rights reserved.
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README.md

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-robot_dart [![Build Status](https://github.com/resibots/robot_dart/actions/workflows/ci_linux.yml/badge.svg?branch=master)](https://github.com/resibots/robot_dart/actions/workflows/ci_linux.yml)
+RobotDART [![Build Status](https://github.com/resibots/robot_dart/actions/workflows/ci_linux.yml/badge.svg?branch=master)](https://github.com/resibots/robot_dart/actions/workflows/ci_linux.yml)
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-### CAUTION: The library is under-going a serious re-structure and development. Expect breaking of API/ABI, and out-of-date guides. We will soon provide a new release with many new features and a proper documentation.
+RobotDART is a C++ robot simulator (with optional Python bindings) built on top of the [DART] physics engine. The RobotDART simulator is intended to be used by Robotics and Machine Learning researchers who want to write controllers or test learning algorithms without the delays and overhead that usually comes with other simulators (e.g., Gazebo, Coppelia-sim).
 
-#### This repo contains a generic wrapper around the [DART] simulator.
+## Documentation
+
+Documentation is available at: [https://resibots.eu/robot_dart/](https://resibots.eu/robot_dart/)
 
 ## Authors
 
-- Author/Maintainer: Konstantinos Chatzilygeroudis
-- Active contributors: Jean-Baptiste Mouret
+- Author/Maintainer: Konstantinos Chatzilygeroudis (University of Patras)
+- Active contributors: Dionis Totsila (Inria and University of Patras), Jean-Baptiste Mouret (Inria)
 - Other contributors: Antoine Cully, Vassilis Vassiliades, Vaios Papaspyros
 
-### Using the code
+## Acknowledgments
+
+This work was partly supported by the [Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation](https://www.elidek.gr/en/homepage/) (H.F.R.I.) under the "3rd Call for H.F.R.I. Research Projects to support Post-Doctoral Researchers" (Project Acronym: [NOSALRO](), Project Number: 7541).
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+<p align="center">
+<img src="https://www.elidek.gr/wp-content/themes/elidek/images/elidek_logo_en.png" alt="logo_elidek"/>
+<p/>
+
+This work was partly supported by the ResiBots ERC Project (http://www.resibots.eu).
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+<p aling="center">
+<img src="http://resibots.eu/_static/resibots_logo_black_200px.png" alt="logo_resibots"/>
+</p>
 
-Please look at the [installation guide](docs/installation.md). You will find detailed guidelines on how to properly install all the dependencies, compile the code and run the examples. There is also a short [tutorial](docs/tutorial.md) where the basics of this small library are explained through coding a small example. Moreover, a small [guide](docs/guide.md) provides a brief overview of the main classes and functionality of the library. Finally, there exist python bindings of the library, located [here](src/python) (see the examples for usage).
 
-## LICENSE
+## License
 
-[CeCILL]
+[BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License](https://opensource.org/license/bsd-2-clause/)
 
-[CeCILL]: http://www.cecill.info/index.en.html
 [DART]: http://dartsim.github.io/

paper/paper.md

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     corresponding: true
     affiliation: "1, 2" # (Multiple affiliations must be quoted)
   - name: Dionis Totsila
-    # orcid: 0000-0002-2513-027X
+    orcid: 0009-0008-0664-2676
     equal-contrib: false
     corresponding: false
     affiliation: "3, 4"