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From: Dave Coleman davetcoleman@gmail.com Reply-to: User discussions ros-users@code.ros.org To: ros-users@code.ros.org Subject: [ros-users] Fwd: Announcing gazebo_ros_pkgs Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 01:30:00 -0700
Greetings,
I'd like to announce some significant improvements in the integration of the Gazebo simulator with ROS in next week's rollout of Hydro. These improvements will require a few updates to existing robot-specific ROS packages that use Gazebo, but should overall be painless. Most importantly, we now have good documentation.
The old simulator_gazebo has been replaced in Hydro with a new meta package named gazebo_ros_pkgs. The most significant difference is that ROS no longer builds its own version of Gazebo (e.g. ros-groovy-gazebo). Instead, ROS Hydro uses the default stand-alone version of Gazebo as an upstream dependency (debian). The removal of a ROS dependency held by Gazebo (urdfdom) has facilitated this change.
The primary changes: * System dependency on Gazebo * Treats URDF and SDF as equally as possible * Adds out of the box support for controllers using ros_control and transmissions - see diagram * Improvements from the DARPA Virtual Robotics Challenge * Code cleanup and reduced code duplication with Gazebo * Four new plugins: ros_video, ros_prosilica, ros_skid_steer_drive, ros_planar_move (thanks Piyush Khandelwal, Zdenek Materna) * catkin-ized I've created a nice diagram and migration guide for the changes involved.
I encourage anyone who has recently been disenfranchised with Gazebo-ROS integration to give it another try!
Thanks,
Dave Coleman Open Source Robotics Foundation | 251.463.2345 | davetcoleman.com _______________________________________________ ros-users mailing list ros-users@code.ros.org https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users
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