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Ignition Physics is a component in Ignition Robotics, a set of libraries designed to rapidly develop robot and simulation applications. The main goal of the library is to provide an abstraction layer to various physics engines, which gives end users the ability to use multiple physics engines with minimal change to their application code. Ignition Physics uses a plugin architecture where each physics engine is implemented as a plugin that can be loaded at runtime. To enable users the ability to choose between physics engines, Ignition Physics introduces "Features", a design concept used to encode the capabilities of a physics engine. Users can request for physics engines that support a set of features and the plugin loading mechanism loads only the engines that implement the requested features.
The following is a list of currently supported physics engines: