ROSIntegration VS carla

I've recently been working with ROSIntegration, does anyone have any examples of it's use? My publishers haven't been working as well as expected.

I've been trying to publish controller locations from an Oculus device to a Baxter running ROS Kinetic. While I found a decent plugin that seems to work on a basic level, the subscriber isn't reading it correctly. Is anyone familiar with ROSIntegration? Even just some examples of functional code using that plugin would be very helpful.

I would say this still depends on your use-case. Unity provides potentially high visual fidelity for image based learning etc. (like Unreal, for which there is this: https://github.com/code-iai/ROSIntegration ). The physics engine may be a bit simpler than in dedicated simulators to keep real-time > 60Hz up. (Unreal also uses PhysX)

It sounds like you're looking for something like the CARLA simulator.

If you are looking for a different simulator, I would suggest using (Carla)[https://carla.org/] with ROS bridge and it also has an inbuilt support for OSM which worked flawlessly (you have to install it from source to get the OSM plugin).

(3) I would suggest you use CARLA or TORCS for self-driving cars in RL as they are common test beds.

carla env

Link to carla

There are a few ways you could go with this. A fun recent trend has been to make simulators in the unreal engine for photorealistic training. If you wanted to spend your whole project on the simulator part you could make your own environment, but I highly recommend using an open-source sim package. If you don't care too much about photorealism, you could use gazebo just fine. I've also made small visual worlds in blender, then simulated with RVIZ. Here's a good one with a focus on aerial robotics: https://theairlab.org/tartanair-dataset/ You could also give CARLA a spin for autonomous vehicles: https://carla.org/