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How can you start gazebo with a non-0 simulated clock time?
Generally speaking, best practice would be to set the use_sim_time parameter in any ROS nodes that rely on timing in the simulation. Making sure everything is ...
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How to dynamically set a topic publication for a model sensor?
The solution I found to fix my pb is to remove the topic tag from the SDF file. This makes gazebo generates topics named /world/{{ WORLD_NAME }}/model/{{ drone_name }}/link/lidar_link/sensor/gpu_lidar/...
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diff_drive changes the wheel's parent link
You should change robot_base_frame to your actual "base_link" - since your robot has no "base_footprint":
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Joint Position Controller Plugin doesn't subscribe to any topics
This is a known issue, fixed by this PR.
So this will be fixed in the upcoming Harmonic release, as well as in Garden (and I assume also Fortress), when updated packages are released.
If you can't ...
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Gazebo ROS2 how to set Entity State when calling Set Model State via Node client
I managed to figure it out so I figured I'd post the solution in case anyone else encounters this. You need to assign the SetEntityState.Request() and then assign the ._state as your EntityState. I.e.
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gazebo garden, how to set background colour
This is one of the strange (undocumented?) things of Gazebo Sim: there is an element <background> in the <scene> ...
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How to set up odometry for a custom robot?
Typically, the odometry would be done by modeling where the center of the robot body is based on each leg movement and the forward kinematics. You may need to add some smoothing to this odometry ...
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How to dynamically set a topic publication for a model sensor?
What you're describing here can be accomplished with topic remapping. You can find documentation on it here, and another question about this topic here.
The basic concept behind topic remapping is to ...
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How can i open wind gazebo 7
The Gazebo Wind Plugin is not what will allow gliding. It will allow you to provide a constant wind field in the world.
The plugin that you want to enable gliding is the LiftDrag Plugin
You can see it ...
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How does Gazebo's physics engine simulate flight of a drone or an UAV?
You haven't specified whether you're talking about Gazebo Classic or new Gazebo. So I'll answer for both.
Gazebo Classic: The core of the simulator doesn't support multicopters. There is a 3rd-party ...
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Basic example project of a gripper holding an object in Gazebo
I believe the current state-of-the-art attaches the object to the gripper via Gazebo when the object is in proximity, so the ideal solution that I am looking for does not seem to exist. I will use the ...
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Rviz Amcl spreading over time when stayin still
I suspect the problem is that your launch files rely on the obsolete tf_prefix feature. This feature was deprecated long ago, and I believe it is not reliably ...
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How to simulate in Gazebo Moveit2 planning executing
This would involve editing your launch file to spawn the entity in Gazebo. There are multiple ways of doing this, but the simplest is to use the robot_description ...
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class gazebo_ros2_control/GazeboSystem with base class type hardware_interface::SystemInterface does not exist
The spawner normally waits for the controller_manager to be available. But you can increase the timeout if necessary
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class gazebo_ros2_control/GazeboSystem with base class type hardware_interface::SystemInterface does not exist
Thanks for help and your answers.
I almost solve the problems.
In my launch file I run ros2_control_node - it was my firs mistake.
I assume it was in conflict with gazebo_ros2_control, which I guess ...
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Can't find Apply Force Torque plugin in gazebo garden
That functionality was only very recently merged, so probably the packages haven't been updated yet. If you can't wait for the updated packages, you can compile Gazebo from source. This is not ...
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osrf/ros docker images don't contain Gazebo packages
The variants for ROS 2 are defined in REP 2001
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extends: [desktop]
packages: [perception, simulation, ros_ign_gazebo_demos]
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Which controller from `ros2_control` is appropriate for firmly grabbing a box with a 1-DOF gripper in Gazebo Classic?
Welcome to RSE.
So you want to simulate a gripper interacting with objects in Gazebo Classic? Don't use position or velocity interfaces. In my experience, that just doesn't work. You have to use an ...
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ros2_control state interfaces not showing up
I don't see any obvious error in your configuration. I'd suggest to deactivate your controllers to reduce the console output first. Are there any hints from gazebo_ros2_control in the console output ...
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robot does not spawn in ros2
The robot_state_publisher node is missing in the launch file. The spawn_entity.py node is waiting for a ...
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Gazebo Garden: change noise characteristics of IMU sensor
The noise characteristics can be configured through the SDF. Currently the following characteristics are supported:
"none" (no noise)
"gaussian" (draw noise values independently ...
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Gazebo plugin location and documentation
They are in the Gazebo Sim github repository:
System plugins can be found here,
Gui plugins are here,
Example worlds using these plugins are here.
Documentation of each plugin is written in the ...
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Gazebo Ignition how to bridge SerializedStepMap
Looks like I managed to solve the issue with @Bi0T1N help. To anyone interested in my setup:
I have .sdf file with my world (walls and robot)
I'm running Gazebo simulation
Gazebo publishes some ...
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Gazebo Ignition how to bridge SerializedStepMap
The JointStatePublisher plugin publishes a gz.msgs.Model (might be the SerializedStepMap on ...
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Custom Protobuf messages for Gazebo Sim, in separate package
I was pointed to the SubT Competition repository, which comes close but uses catkin.
But based on that I managed to get to a working solution.
I made a fully ...
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{spawn_model-5} process has died
It looks like your URDF is not correctly formatted. If it is a small file, you can go through it physically, or if you are using XACRO to compose your final URDF instead, you can do a test-run to know ...
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