texas-aerial-robotics / gazebo-ros

Repo containing a full simulation of ardupilot and mission 7 with ros plugins

Gazebo-Ros

This repo is a ros package which couples our romba simulator to the ardupilot SITL sim as well as other ros-gazebo plugins

Please install the following dependencies to get the simulator to run

 sudo apt install ros-kinetic-gazebo-ros ros-kinetic-gazebo-plugins

Instructions

clone in Computations repo

 git clone https://github.com/Texas-Aerial-Robotics/Computations.git

Add the following to your bashrc to use the roomba plugins

export GAZEBO_MODEL_PATH=${GAZEBO_MODEL_PATH}:~/Computations/roomba_host/models

export GAZEBO_PLUGIN_PATH=${GAZEBO_PLUGIN_PATH}:~/Computations/roomba_host/build

To view camera plugin

install image view

sudo apt install ros-kinetic-image-view

To view camera footage

rosrun image_view image_view image:=/webcam/image_raw