Isaac Lab

Isaac Lab is a GPU-accelerated, open-source framework designed to unify and simplify robotics research workflows, such as reinforcement learning, imitation learning, and motion planning. Built on NVIDIA Isaac Sim, it combines fast and accurate physics and sensor simulation, making it an ideal choice for sim-to-real transfer in robotics.

Isaac Lab provides developers with a range of essential features for accurate sensor simulation, such as RTX-based cameras, LIDAR, or contact sensors. The framework's GPU acceleration enables users to run complex simulations and computations faster, which is key for iterative processes like reinforcement learning and data-intensive tasks. Moreover, Isaac Lab can run locally or be distributed across the cloud, offering flexibility for large-scale deployments.

Key Features

Isaac Lab offers a comprehensive set of tools and environments designed to facilitate robot learning:

• Robots: A diverse collection of robots, from manipulators, quadrupeds, to humanoids, with 16 commonly available models.
• Environments: Ready-to-train implementations of more than 30 environments, which can be trained with popular reinforcement learning frameworks such as RSL RL, SKRL, RL Games, or Stable Baselines. We also support multi-agent reinforcement learning.
• Physics: Rigid bodies, articulated systems, deformable objects
• Sensors: RGB/depth/segmentation cameras, camera annotations, IMU, contact sensors, ray casters.

Getting Started

Our documentation page provides everything you need to get started, including detailed tutorials and step-by-step guides. Follow these links to learn more about:

• Installation steps
• Reinforcement learning
• Tutorials
• Available environments

Contributing to Isaac Lab

We wholeheartedly welcome contributions from the community to make this framework mature and useful for everyone. These may happen as bug reports, feature requests, or code contributions. For details, please check our contribution guidelines.

Troubleshooting

Please see the troubleshooting section for common fixes or submit an issue.

For issues related to Isaac Sim, we recommend checking its documentation or opening a question on its forums.

Support

• Please use GitHub Discussions for discussing ideas, asking questions, and requests for new features.
• Github Issues should only be used to track executable pieces of work with a definite scope and a clear deliverable. These can be fixing bugs, documentation issues, new features, or general updates.

License

The Isaac Lab framework is released under BSD-3 License. The license files of its dependencies and assets are present in the docs/licenses directory.

Acknowledgement

Isaac Lab development initiated from the Orbit framework. We would appreciate if you would cite it in academic publications as well:

@article{mittal2023orbit,
   author={Mittal, Mayank and Yu, Calvin and Yu, Qinxi and Liu, Jingzhou and Rudin, Nikita and Hoeller, David and Yuan, Jia Lin and Singh, Ritvik and Guo, Yunrong and Mazhar, Hammad and Mandlekar, Ajay and Babich, Buck and State, Gavriel and Hutter, Marco and Garg, Animesh},
   journal={IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters},
   title={Orbit: A Unified Simulation Framework for Interactive Robot Learning Environments},
   year={2023},
   volume={8},
   number={6},
   pages={3740-3747},
   doi={10.1109/LRA.2023.3270034}
}