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Not an answer, but some suggestions:

Can you make a simulation that moves robot1 to collide with object1, so they're not initially in collision?

Gazebo is under continuous, heavy development. Are you running on older/restricted hardware, or can you upgrade Ubuntu and ROS? how about Fuerte or Groovy?

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