I am wondering if rviz has a collision detection system similar to gazebo implemented. I see that there is an option to enable collision, but I have not found and information online about what it does exactly.
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS ROS: Indigo
Originally posted by justinkgoh on ROS Answers with karma: 25 on 2016-06-21
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rviz only renders data, so it does not have collision detection. The option you're seeing is to visualize the collision geometry, which can be different from the visual geometry. A common example is to have a high polygon and detailed mesh for visualization of your robot, but for collision detection you might just use a box or a sphere so it is faster. rviz can render these shapes, but does not do any collision detection with them.
Originally posted by William with karma: 17335 on 2016-06-21
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Comment by justinkgoh on 2016-06-30:
Thanks for the info.
