gazebo7_ros_pkgs and Indigo
Hello, I have installed from source gazebo7 in a workpace. I would like to work with ros, so I suppose I need to install gazeb7_ros_pkgs in the same workspace. My ros distribution is Indigo The osrf...
View ArticleHow to get the name of a entity a ray or a ray sensor collides with?
In my sensor plugin, I have a ray sensor which casts a single ray. From this ray, I would like to get the name of the entity with which the ray intersects. I have a working workaround by creating a...
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 Articlei need point cloud object ply format to process it in matlab ..where i found ?
i need point cloud object ply format to process it in matlab ..where i found ?
View Articlewarning waited one second for namespaces
While working on gazebo, I tried to launch $ gazebo worlds/gripper.world but came up with the following error: gazebo worlds/gripper.world Gazebo multi-robot simulator, version 2.2.6 Copyright (C)...
View ArticleRobot seems to randomly make larger movements when Gazebo step size speeds up
Sorry for the lengthy post, I tried to make it as short as possible. I am using the AR Drone tum_simulator package in my project. I am trying to speed up the simulation in order to do faster testing. I...
View ArticleGzweb documentation development
There is little on how Gzweb works. I am interested in developing such a document. I am wondering what help/references/procedure may be there (in addition to reading the source code). Thanks.
View ArticleHand/Finger simulation
Hello, I am new to this forum and just started learning gazebo. I just wanted to ask if there are any tutorials or tips on how create a basic hand model and simulate finger movements? Any help is...
View ArticleLoading heightmap.world fails in gazebo7
Hi All, I'm having some problems loading the following worlds in the gazebo-7 package: worlds/heightmap.world worlds/heightmap_dem.world as in: $ gazebo worlds/heightmap.world My GAZEBO_MODEL_PATH is...
View ArticleGazebo 7.0, model modification is disabled. How to enable it ?
I have downloaded gazebo 7.0 and I tried following the tutorials on both ros.org and Gazebo's site, but every time I try to modify the model parameters such as orientation of a box or even the ground...
View Article"ResourceNotFound: gazebo_worlds" using indigo dist with gazebo 2
**Complete output** mudasser@mudasser-PC:~$ roslaunch pr2_launch/pr2_nav_tutorial.launch ... logging to /home/mudasser/.ros/log/17a29d66-fb73-11e5-a526-a4173175490b/roslaunch-mudasser-PC-11206.log...
View ArticleWhy does the robot links fall downwards when gravity is disabled and no...
Hi, I have a model for a robotic arm which I want to move to arbitrary positions by applying random torques on each joint. For this purpose, I have written a service client which calls the ros service...
View ArticlePlugin for WirelessTransmitter and WirelessReciever sensors
Hello, I need to modify the code of WirelessTransmitter sensor in order to use another propagation function. The first thing I tried is to create a pluggin for both WirelessReceiver and...
View ArticleInstalling Gazebo in Debian Jessie
Hello, I am trying to install gazebo in Debian Jessie from source. Can I follow the same steps mentioned in the tutorial for installing Gazebo from source in Ubuntu ? Also is it possible to make...
View ArticleLoading gazebo_ros_control faster
Hello, I am working on a 27-DOF robot. After the model is loaded on gazebo, it takes about 3 minutes for gazebo_ros_control plugin to be loaded. My question is: Is it possible to make it loaded...
View ArticleWrong direction of gravity
So I built a human-like robot with some 3d models. It worked pretty well with the default inertial settings. But after I tried to simulate using real inertia parameters, following the...
View ArticleNo joints are being published in /joint_states topic
Hello, I have a problem (in my opinion) with joint_state_controller. My configuration file is as follows: **elektron_control.yaml**: elektron: joint_state_controller: type:...
View ArticleIs there a way to run Gazebo with ingetrated graphics card?
A dedicated GPU is listed first in the system requirements. I have Intel(R) HD Graphics 4000 and Intel Core i7 3612QM , is there no way I could run Gazebo?
View ArticleGazebo camera plugin rendering in wrong order on Virtual Machine
We are using ROS & Gazebo over virtual machine (VMWare Player). The Gazebo camera rendering worked fine in the Gazebo shipped with ROS Hydro. But in Gazebo version shipped with ROS Indigo, the...
View ArticleNamespaces error, Waiting for..... 1second
Ubuntu 14.04 Gzebo 2.2 ROS Indigo Following this tutorial http://wiki.ros.org/hector_quadrotor/Tutorials/Quadrotor%20indoor%20SLAM%20demo and got Namespaces error Warning [gazebo.cc:215] Waited...
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