gazebo_ros_pkgs

Wrappers, tools and additional API’s for using ROS with the Gazebo simulator. Formally simulator_gazebo stack, gazebo_pkgs is a meta package. Now Catkinized and works with the standalone Gazebo debian.

Installation

Installing gazebo_ros_pkgs

Documentation and Tutorials

On gazebosim.org

Develop and Contribute

See Contribute page.

How to Contribute

We welcome contributions to this repo and encourage you to fork the project, thanks!

Implementations of simulations

It is highly recommended to place the code that performs simulation inside upstream gazebo code. The Gazebo project provides documentation about how to create and code plugins Ideally gazebo_ros_pkgs should implement the ROS wrapper over an existing gazebo plugin.

Issues and Pull Requests

There are several maintainers of different packages in this repository. If you are submitting an issue or a pull request, please prefix the title of the issue or pull resquest with the package name. This way the appropriate maintainers can more easily recognize contributions which require their attention.

Style

We follow the C++ ROS style guidelines and conventions as closely as possible. However, because the plugins inherit from Gazebo classes and Gazebo follows a very different formatting standard, there are a few exceptions where Gazebo’s function names do not comply to the ROS guidelines.

Tests

We encourage developers to include tests in their pull requests when possible, both for bug fixes and new features. Examples of tests are in the gazebo_plugins/test* folders. Currently the tests must not be run in parallel (see issue issue 409) so it is recommented to use the -j1 argument to catkin run_tests.