ridgeback / ridgeback_simulator

Simulation packages for Ridgeback.

ridgeback

Common packages for Ridgeback, including messages and robot description. These are packages relevant to all Ridgeback workspaces, whether simulation, desktop, or on the robot's own headless PC.

ridgeback_simulator's Issues

[Noetic] mecanum_gazebo_plugin fails to build on armhf

Hey @tonybaltovski,

It looks like mecanum_gazebo_plugin isn't building on some platforms:

• Ubuntu Focal armhf

I'm planning to add all chronically failing packages to per-platform blacklists later this week.
That just means the buildfarm won't try to build them every day.

When all issues causing the build failures are resolved, please make a PR to the production branch on ros_buildfarm_config removing it from the package_blacklist:

• release-armhf-build.yaml

No docs/ a few questions

odometry is not reseting after '/gazebo/reset_simulation' or '/gazebo/reset_world'

• OS: Ubuntu 16.04
• ROS Distro: Kinetic
• Gazebo: 9

Hello,

I am currently utilizing the Ridgeback mobile robot for a task involving reinforcement learning, in which the environment must be reset upon collision with an obstacle. Upon utilizing the Gazebo service /gazebo/reset_simulation, the odometry stops publishing. Conversely, utilizing /gazebo/reset_world results in the continuous publishing of cumulative odometry data from the previous state. I assume that this issue is related to the ridgeback_ros_force_based_move gazebo plugin, specifically due to the lack of a resetOdometry function. Despite attempting a proposed solution, as outlined in issue #32, the problem with the odometry still remains. Can this issue be resolved?

Thank you,
Emmanuel

License Information

Hi guys,
Could you please provide license information for all ridgeback packages?

No docs/ a few questions

Dear ridgeback_simulator Authors,

While we are awaiting for our first Ridgeback platform to arrive to use with the Baxter robot, we'd like to the development using simulation.
Since there is no documentation for ridgeback_gazebo as of yet (http://docs.ros.org/indigo/api/ridgeback_gazebo/html/), could you give us a few pointers to get us started?

We have two questions right now:

1. What are the basic steps needed to integrate baxter simulator with ridgeback_gazebo and what would be a reasonable transform to use between the simulated baxter & ridgeback platform, as a default?

2. What are the basic steps needed to control the simulated ridgeback from a basic action server?

Kind regards,
Greg

ridgeback_gazebo_plugin does not build on Kinetic

I think it is missing a dependency on gazebo_dev

http://build.ros.org/view/Kbin_uX64/job/Kbin_uX64__ridgeback_gazebo_plugins__ubuntu_xenial_amd64__binary/15/console

-- Found gtest sources under '/usr/src/gmock': gtests will be built
-- Using Python nosetests: /usr/bin/nosetests-2.7
-- catkin 0.7.11
-- Using these message generators: gencpp;geneus;genlisp;gennodejs;genpy
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:11 (find_package):
  By not providing "Findgazebo.cmake" in CMAKE_MODULE_PATH this project has
  asked CMake to find a package configuration file provided by "gazebo", but
  CMake did not find one.

  Could not find a package configuration file provided by "gazebo" with any
  of the following names:

    gazeboConfig.cmake
    gazebo-config.cmake

  Add the installation prefix of "gazebo" to CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH or set
  "gazebo_DIR" to a directory containing one of the above files.  If "gazebo"
  provides a separate development package or SDK, be sure it has been
  installed.


-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
See also "/tmp/binarydeb/ros-kinetic-ridgeback-gazebo-plugins-0.0.2/obj-x86_64-linux-gnu/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".
See also "/tmp/binarydeb/ros-kinetic-ridgeback-gazebo-plugins-0.0.2/obj-x86_64-linux-gnu/CMakeFiles/CMakeError.log".
	cd /tmp/binarydeb/ros-kinetic-ridgeback-gazebo-plugins-0.0.2
	cd obj-x86_64-linux-gnu
	"tail -v -n +0 CMakeCache.txt"
==> CMakeCache.txt <==

The robot starts in free fall

Hi,
when I start the simulator, the robot is in free fall. Z position keeps dropping exponentially, what is the reason for that ? , have you observed same behavior ?

Edit; ops, the gazebo models specified in world file was not on my system, replaced the world and robot does not fall anymore