Programatically set the camera pose in gazebo or rviz.
Hello, I am trying to automatically generate a bunch of videos of a robot manipulating objects. I figured out a way to record the screen from gazebo or rviz, but I can't find any tutorial about how to...
View ArticleGmapping in Gazebo with Hokuyo: problems due to max range measurements
Hi all, I am simulating gmapping in Gazebo with my Turtlebot. I have attached an Hokuyo laser on my (virtual) turtlebot and want to use this for gmapping instead of the virtual kinect laser. The...
View ArticleDisplay MoveIt Collison Objects in Gazebo
How can i display collision objects i added to my MoveIt planning scene in Gazebo? I added them like: # publish a demo scene scene = PlanningSceneInterface() p = PoseStamped() p.header.frame_id =...
View ArticleTurn off Gazebo recording from launch file
I'm using gazebo2 (2.2.3) and running a lot of simulations and I don't need the recording data so I'd like to turn it off. I'm using a launch file to start the simulator. How can I turn off recording...
View ArticleGazebo Immediately Close on Startup
Hello all, I am using Ros indigo on Ubuntu 14.04 For some reason I cannot start Gazebo. When I execute gazebo on terminal, it opens the window but after some seconds, it terminates and closes the...
View Articlerunning gazebo on VirtualBox
Did anyone try running gazebo on VirtualBox? Whenever I am trying to run it, it crashes and the screen goes black.
View ArticleController spawner could not find expected controller manager
I am following tutorial here: [gazebo: ROS control][1] I cloned the repo and ran it but when I run: [1]: http://gazebosim.org/tutorials?tut=ros_control&cat=connect_ros roslaunch rrbot_control...
View ArticleGazebo: Invalid tag: Cannot load command parameter [robot_description]
My original package worked well. But after I added a `mavlink_interface_macro` to my xacro file of the model, I got the following error: when processing file:...
View Articlegazebo/ros/iiwa/joint position
Hey, I would like to send joint prositions for a model in gazebo from terminal . I am working on it on wile. Is there anyone who could give me some tpis how to do it? I installed ros and i have model...
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Prismatic joint with PositionJointInterface interferes with Gazebo physics
I working on a simulation model of a forklift using ROS control and Gazebo. I'm using a prismatic joint to simulate the piston moving the forks up and down. Since I added a PositionJointInterface to...
View ArticleGazebo plugin subscribe to ROS topic
On this [page](http://gazebosim.org/tutorials?tut=guided_i6), I found a description on how to subscribe with a gazebo plugin to a ROS topic. But some questions came up. With the following piece of...
View Articlesdf::elementPtr ?
Hi, I was going to add a `mavlink_gazebo_interface` (a gazbeo plugin) to my robot model in gazebo, but the model could not be loaded successfully for unknown reasons. I checked and find that, my model...
View ArticleGazebo: Could not load controller, JointTrajectoryController does not exist...
Hi! I am new in ROS, and I was reading a book "Mastering ROS". But I am having an issue with loading controllers in Gazebo, from chapter 10. Working with perception using MoveIt! and Gazebo. Even...
View ArticleWhen using navigation, map and global map couldn't delete obstacles
Hello, I'm new in ROS, and I'm trying to use navigation with turtlebot. My ROS and Ubuntu version as following: Ubuntu: 14.04 ROS: indigo **Question 1:** I run my launch file (`$ roslaunch...
View ArticleGazebo crashes on self collide: Param.cc 'inf'
Hi guys. I was altering some minor values in our URDF and now Gazebo crashes shortly after startup. I was only changing small things, like controller PID's, friction and damping etc, and only minor...
View ArticleUsing Gazebo Simulator with ROSARIA
In the tutorial in http://wiki.ros.org/ROSARIA/Tutorials/How%20to%20use%20ROSARIA#Topics_and_Commands on "How to Use ROSARIA", under the section "Using MobileSim simulator", it is stated that for more...
View Articleagvs_sim kinetic joint_states not published
I have been trying to run agvs_sim tutorials in kinetic version .http://wiki.ros.org/agvs_sim/tutorials For the following command ``` roslaunch agvs_robot_control agvs_robot_control.launch ``` I am...
View ArticleGazebo plugin with custom ROS message
Hello, I've a Gazebo plugin and a ROS package. The Gazebo plugin is able to subscribe to a ROS topic and receive ROS messages. The message is of type std_msgs::Float32 just for testing. My ROS package...
View ArticleHow to create a caster wheel (Urdf model)
I have built a 2 wheel robot and I have been trying for hours to put a correct caster wheel on it. I followed the logic of this...
View ArticleCan't launch Gazebo
Hi! I just finished installing ros full desktop package and gazebo but when I run gazebo in terminal it simply doesn't launch. I'm going crazy since I can't find anyone else with this problem. I'm...
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