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As @Dornhege mentioned, you can use the PR2 in simulation, but being a complex robot, simulation might be rather slow and it can be hard to get a good overview. You might want to have a look at the simulated turtlebot provided via the turtlebot_gazebo package instead, which provides a good example of a simpler robot, which still demonstrates a lot of concepts. You can directly launch the simulated turtlebot with the command
roslaunch turtlebot_gazebo turtlebot_empty_world.launch
once you have the package (and all dependencies) installed. Another good starting point could be the erratic_robot stack, but I believe turtlebot is better documented and more widely used now.
You might also want to have a look at these related questions: 1, 2.
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As @Dornhege mentioned, you can use the PR2 in simulation, but being a complex robot, simulation might be rather slow and it can be hard to get a good overview. You might also want to have a look at the simulated turtlebot provided via the turtlebot_gazebo package instead, package, which provides a good example of a simpler robot, which still demonstrates a lot of concepts.
You can directly launch the simulated turtlebot with the command
roslaunch turtlebot_gazebo turtlebot_empty_world.launch
once you have the package (and all dependencies) installed. Another good starting point could be the erratic_robot stack, but I believe turtlebot is better documented and more widely used now.
You might also want to have a look at these related questions: 1, 2.
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