gazebo_ros_pkgs
Wrappers, tools and additional API's for using ROS with Gazebo (by ros-simulation)
robot_state_publisher
Allows you to publish the state of a robot (i.e the position of its base and all joints) via the "tf" transform library (by ros)
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
gazebo_ros_pkgs
Posts with mentions or reviews of gazebo_ros_pkgs.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-29.
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How do i model a 4 wheeled omnidrive robot in ros2, gazebo and rviz2?
Regardless of the actual drivetrain used, you can just use the gazebo_ros_planar_move_plugin (included in gazebo_ros_pkgs) to get omnidirectional drive for your simulated robot. This plugin will simply set the entity's speed in Gazebo to match the input Twist command, and Gazebo will update the entity's pose in the world accordingly.
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ROS2 and Gazebo
The "hooks" to ROS2 are described here. The source for the Gazebo plugin and various ROS2 infrastructure for making it work is all developed on GitHub.
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How to add the prius hybrid model to the small city simulation in gazebo?
Using the galactic branch of the ros-simulation/gazebo_ros_plugins github repo, I can launch the ackermann steering world, connect a joystick using teleop-joy and I can dive the car around in the empty world.
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What is the industry best practices for the URDF / SDF mismatch?
Optionally, is it possible to use a different type of joint? I see in the gazebo ackermann prius car example, it uses several universal joints. Can I use another type of joint and still be able to simulate the robot to test out the controller?
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Robot Operating System: How to Model Point Cloud Data in ROS2
In the last article, we saw how to add a plugin to control the robot in a Gazebo simulation. Adding a visual sensor follows the same approach: Identify the plugin from the Gazebo plugin documentation, check and apply the configuration, and then add it your robots' URDF model.
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Robot Operating System: Controlling a Robot with the ROS Gazebo Plugins
Since the inception of ROS2, plugins have been steadily converted. The status page shows that individual plugins for e.g. cameras were combined into one package. Taking this as a reference, we can select and incorporate the plugins of our choice to make them workable with our prototype.
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Ros 2 Gazebo !!
Also, have you considered using the IMU sensor that already is in those packages ? https://github.com/ros-simulation/gazebo_ros_pkgs/blob/foxy/gazebo_plugins/include/gazebo_plugins/gazebo_ros_imu_sensor.hpp
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Exoerience in using ROS2 on Windows for real robots or realistic simulators?
Gazebo is quasi-supported on Windows 10. I was able to integrate it with ROS2. The core gazebo_ros_pkgs libraries work just fine, but I have noticed that the Gazebo GUI is quite buggy on Windows, stuff sometimes doesn't render right, and the real-time shader system flat out doesn't work.
robot_state_publisher
Posts with mentions or reviews of robot_state_publisher.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-26.
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What is the industry best practices for the URDF / SDF mismatch?
A lengthy discussion on the robot state publisher github issues
What are some alternatives?
When comparing gazebo_ros_pkgs and robot_state_publisher you can also consider the following projects:
dolly - 🤖🐑 It's a sheep, it's a dolly, it's a following robot. Dolly was born to be cloned.
sdformat_urdf - A urdf_parser_plugin using libsdformat to parse SDFormat XML into URDF structures
gazebo-classic - Gazebo classic. For the latest version, see https://github.com/gazebosim/gz-sim