Box not moving in animated box tutorial

Question

Hi there,

I'm trying to follow the animated box tutorial. When I run gazebo with animated_box.world, I see the box in the middle of the world but it does not move. Then when I try using the gz topic interface to view the pose, it comes up but doesn't have any pose information.

I'm using gazebo 5.1

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Originally posted by sm02 on Gazebo Answers with karma: 11 on 2016-01-28

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Original comments

Comment by chapulina on 2016-01-28:
Can you run gazebo in verbose mode and see if you're getting any errors? gazebo --verbose

Comment by sm02 on 2016-01-28:
I just tried 'gazebo --verbose animated_box.world' and I received the following warnings and errors:

[Wrn] [gazebo.cc:186] Waited 1seconds for namespaces. [Err] [Plugin.hh:153] Failed to load plugin libanimated_box.so: libanimated_box.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Answer 1

It seems that the plugin was not added to GAZEBO_PLUGIN_PATH, so Gazebo can't find it.

Be sure to move into your build folder and add it to the path like this:

 export GAZEBO_PLUGIN_PATH=`pwd`:$GAZEBO_PLUGIN_PATH

As explained in the tutorial.

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Originally posted by chapulina with karma: 7504 on 2016-01-28

This answer was ACCEPTED on the original site

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Original comments

Comment by sm02 on 2016-01-28:
I had done that, but I just realized that I used ' instead of ` It works now, thank you!

Comment by meha on 2016-02-23:
What is the default value of $GAZEBO_PLUGIN_PATH, i guess I changed mine by mistake?

Comment by chapulina on 2016-02-23:
I believe it is empty by default.

Comment by meha on 2016-02-23:
Yep, Thanks !!