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hello, I'm trying to create a simulator in gazebo under ROS, for a robot base. This robot base has tracked wheels. I would like to ask you how to implement them in ros and Gazebo, in particular:
thanks in advance
Now there is official support for tracked robots in Gazebo 9 and 11 using ODE. Check out https://github.com/osrf/gazebo/blob/g... for usage example.
@gvdhoorn@peci1 Thank you for this solution. I was able to run the demo. But i am unable to implement the plugin on my robot design. Could anyone of you help me do it? I added the keyboardGUI and simple tracked vehicle plugin. But its not working in my case. My robot isn't moving. For a note, my robot design is in urdf xacro format
I gave a fully physical version of this a try in my bullet physics wrapper ( https://github.com/lucasw/simple_sim_ros as opposed to Gazebo) and got okay results:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYB8z...
Obstacles much higher than the one shown in the video resulted in a lot of slipping when the back wheels reached it.
The tracks are driven like a gear with teeth meshing with the gaps between track plates, and inner and outer wheel covers with a slightly larger diameter than the inner wheel keeps the tracks from falling off. Some cheating may be going on if the wheel covers or teeth are contacting the ground rather than than just the treads.
The whole thing shakes around a bit which may be a precursor to sim instability in rougher environments or with a different configuration.
It took around 20% cpu on a 2.8GHz i7, given that and additional mechanisms that ought to be added that would take up more cpu (like maybe a packbot style second set of treads on flippers, or a higher density of plates) it may not be worth it unless simulating tracks is important.
I'm not entirely sure, but afaik there is (still) no dedicated support for tracked vehicles in Gazebo. One approach/work-around I seem to remember is that people use skid-steering for the dynamics with a track-like appearance for visualisation.
All-in-all I believe you have a better chance of getting good answers over at answers.gazebosim.org, but some related questions / links:
Did you cross-post to tracked robot Gazebo-ROs? Or was that after we referred you to that site?
Asked: 2016-12-12 02:13:00 -0500
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Last updated: Apr 24 '20
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