Hi, I'm working on my autonomous RC car, and would like to use ROS to help me visualize and simulate driving the RC car around a track.
The car is Arduino based, and all sensors and calculations are done onboard.
[YouTube video: Here is the actual environment that my autonomous car drives in.](https://youtu.be/5gDd7GlaQIo)
A friend of mine put together a simple visualization in javascript (see screenshot below) where we can see the car, the red square, drive around the track. The IR sensors it uses are represented as lines going from the car to the walls. This was really nice, and gave a good visualization of when the car decided to turn based on IR sensor inputs.
Now, I'd like to use ROS (and related software) to try and accomplish the same. I've found Gazebo, and have been experimenting briefly with it to create a world and a model, but I'm pretty far away from having a fully functioning simulation.
Then I also came across RViz, which also seems to be able to do something like this. Before I ditch Gazebo I wanted to ask you guys what you would do to accomplish this. Is this a task for Gazebo? Or Rviz? Or something else?
I'll appreciate any feedback you might have.
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