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Here is a tutorial on how to send velocities to a model using a Gazebo plugin.

For your purposes, since you don't want Gazebo's physics to move the object, you can make it <static> on SDF.

Then instead of setting velocity on the plugin's update loop, you can set world pose.

You can see an example here which sends random poses to a model.

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