Why ground_plane has mu 100 mu2 50 if documentation says it's in range [0..1]
Checking out friction parameters trying to solve situations involving grasping and a humanoid walking I ended up with a doubt: If I check mu and mu2 parameters from ground_plane in the different sdf...
View Articlehow to use gazebo to make px4 simulation?
Hi, everyone. I'm really a newbie in learning gazebo and I want to make px4 simulation by gazebo simulator. But I'm quite confused about help documents on official website. For now, I've installed...
View ArticleVisualizing ray traces
I'm working on a plugin that creates a more realistic GPS sensor by performing ray traces to satellites and determines if any are blocked by the environment. I've been able to create a plugin that uses...
View ArticleHow to use Gazebo2 internal topics?
I want to use the internal gazebo topics for getting sensor data from the Gazebo simulator, but only links and model topics are available outside gazebo. How to use the gazebo's internal topics?...
View ArticleCan I have 2 different versions of Gazebo installed on my machine?
I started a University project using Gazebo 7 but then wanted to use Fluidix library and had to install from source, resulting in Gazebo4 installed because of the fluid_sph branch. Now I wonder if...
View ArticleHow Do I Use Both Sensor and Model Plugins to Control a Model?
In my quest to garner Gazebo simulation skills I have made a model plugin for proportional joint control of a simple robot model. The plugin applies a joint torque that is proportional to the...
View Articlesensors and physics synchronization
Hi, I'm currently working on gazebo, trying to do some reinforcement learning, using only camera for the moment. as a consequence i want gazebo to run as quickly as possible, during learning. As I...
View ArticleModels doesn't appear when setting up gazebo programmatically
Hi everyone, I tried the example animated_box which setup the server with a box inside.Then I launch the gzclient, it connect to the server and the box appears in the "models" but not on the render. I...
View ArticleInformation from Topic Visualization to a text file ?
Is it possible to get information from "Topic Visualization" tool to a text file. For example I want to take values in "gazebo/default/pose/info" topic. Alternatively, can I take this information...
View ArticleHow to speed up Gazebo and keep a ROS processing node in sync with it?
I have a simulation that I am trying to speed up, and I was hoping someone here could give me some guidance. I am using Gazebo to run a quad-copter. Using a separate node in ROS, I pull an image from...
View ArticleCylinder parameters: elements or attributes
In the [cylinder SDF specification](http://sdformat.org/spec?ver=1.6&elem=geometry#geometry_cylinder), the radius and length of a cylinder are children elements, as the example in that website...
View ArticleMigrate SDF from Gazebo4 to Gazebo5
Dear community, we recently try to migrate our SDF model of a simplistic differential wheel drive robot from Gazebo version 4 to 5 (and above). Unfortunately, the kinematic model completely miss...
View ArticleProblems when making the robot move in rviz
Hi,all I made my bipedal robot walk in gazebo simulation environment reccently,and I'd like to make it also move in the rviz. I added the following lines to the robot urdf file:...
View Articlecompiling Gazebo with Ogre locally installed
I'm trying to compile Gazebo with a local install of Ogre. I have the Ogre .pc files pointing to the right locations PKG_CONFIG_PATH is set up correctly. However, the Find Ogre bit in the...
View ArticleTopic name or index in Subscriber callback
Hi, I am creating a model plugin that subscribes to many topics (same name, but only a number changes) and I want all the subscribers to call the same callback. However, if I do that I am not able to...
View ArticleHow to update Gazebo-2.2 to Gazebo-7?
Hi all, i have installed ROS Indigo on my Ubuntu 14.04 LTS-64 bit machine. It includes Gazebo-2.2 with it. I want to update the Gazebo-7. I want to know - 1. How can i update it to Gazebo-7? 2. If i...
View Articleset light properties through ros topic or service interface?
Is it possible to set light properties through the ros topic or service interface on /gazebo? If not that, what about gz command line or gazebojs?
View ArticleCreate model during runtime
Hello, is there a way to create a model during runtime? I've created a little GUI overlay plugin with a button and some other elements. If the button is pressed i want to create some cylinders in the...
View ArticleWhere can get more models?
I need many models of object to simulate a learning grasping algorithm. So where can I get so many models? I have found several model libraries: 1. Gazebo models:...
View ArticleSetPosition target problem
Hello everybody, I want to move a link of my robot using SetPosition. I have several joints : - body -> left_arm (prismatic joints) - body -> right_arm (prismatic joints) - body -> bottom...
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