Kinect in Gazebo: Zooming Out
Hello all, I am using an openni_kinect in Gazebo and have been trying to make it zoom out. I have adjusted the focal length (which is currently 554 mm using rostopic info cameras/kinect/...) to lower...
View ArticleGazebo seg fault Ubuntu/Indigo 14.04.02
I am running in native mode on i386. I am working out of the instructions in "learning Robotics using Python" by Lentin Joseph. I ran **sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-gazebo-ros-pkgs...
View Articlemodel not moving in Rviz but is moving in Gazebo
Hello, I am trying to create costume robot. I have been trying to follow this tutorial. www.romin.upm.es/wiki/index.php?title=ROS%3ATutorials/Build_Your_Own_URDF_Robot I can get the robot up in Gazebo...
View ArticleSingle actuator for two moving linkages in a gripper
Hi, I have a custom robotic gripper, that has two moving finger links actuated via single servo, similar to...
View ArticleHow does the Planer move plugin work?
I am trying to get the build a omni-directional robot in gazebo. I got it working model by applying forces to each wheel following...
View ArticleConnect two Youbots with a wire in gazebo
I'm simulating a wire using multiple joints linked together. The two youbots have its own separate urdf file. SO I was able to link 10 joints to the front of one Youbot, but I cannot link the last...
View Articlegazebo 6.0 conflict with gazebo 2.2.6(came with ROS indigo)
When I finished installing ROS Indigo, I noticed that it already came with Gazebo(version2.2.6). I tried to directly install the 6.0 Gazebo, but, it was not possible because it looks like 6.0 version...
View Articlesegmentation fault in gazebo
I use ubuntu 14.04, ros indigo, verion 1.11.9. I run this command: `roslaunch turtlebot_gazebo turtlebot_world.launch` Sometimes I have a segmentation fault (core dumped). Then I try to rerun the...
View ArticleCircular motion in navigation stack
Turtlebot simulated in Gazebo, using move_base for navigation in an empty map. But the robot doesn't follow a straight path to the destination. It keeps rotating (for the scans) while moving forward....
View ArticleOpening A .URDF in Gazebo
I created a .URDF from SolidWorks using SW2URDF plug in, but the model doesn't appear in the insert model list in GAZEBO, even after i paste relevant files in .Gazebo folder. I know its basic stuff...
View Articlenan value after changing inertia matrix
Hello everybody, I am the following problem with my robot (rear wheels don't touch the ground):  So I have changed the inertia of my links but I got...
View ArticleInstall Indigo on ubuntu 15.04 [vivid]
I am trying to install ROS Indigo on Ubuntu 15.04 from source. After trying to install dependencies in the catkin workspace I'm getting the following error message: ERROR: the following packages/stacks...
View ArticleIs there ROS support for PAL (Physics Abstraction Layer) or other physics...
I found that PAL support many physical engines. I specially interested in not only rigid models but also fluid or breakable models. Here is the list of PAL features now: Physics Engines Box2D...
View ArticleHow to start gazebo_ros gazebo with DART Physics engine?
I am trying to spawn a manipulator with urdf in gazebo and control using ros_control. How do I set the physics engine to be dart? I can get gazebo to run on its own by running: gazebo -e dart. How...
View ArticlePart of my Robot gets embedded inside the ground for ROS and Gazebo
While Spawning my URDF in ROS and Gazebo half of my Bipedal Robot gets embedded inside the ground. I know it has to do with the way my URDF tree is structured, but I cant figure out a way to tell ROS...
View ArticleGazebo, simulation, KnowRob, PointClouds
Hi All, As far as I understand it, KnowRob (and CRAM) are using a Bullet world to do simulation and a visualization tool based on it. Are people going with Gazebo now as their visualization tool now?...
View ArticleWell, I have a urdf, mesh(stl files), manifest file, display.launch and...
Well, I have a urdf, mesh(stl files), manifest file, display.launch and gazebo.launch files. What do i need to do next to launch my robot in gazebo or atleast spawn it in gazebo. Tutorials are...
View ArticleUR5 - Gazebo Joint Position controller
Dear all, I need to **simulate a velocity control** of a UR5 robot in Gazebo + ROS. But current packages of UR only has **a joint trajectory controller,** But I want to control individual joint...
View ArticlePorting Gazebo GUI to QT Gui Platform
Hi All Dear friends!! first of all I have worked on a specific project which based on Qt5 Gui C++ and for now I have integrated old qdude Ros Qt template with Catkin to QT5 GUI project I develop. My...
View ArticleSimulation of multiple Husky robots
Hello all, I'm relatively new to ROS and I'm working on simulation of multiple Clearpath Huskies running some simple obstacle avoidance code that I've written. I've installed and used the husky_gazebo...
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