Changing max step size affects angular velocity [closed]

asked 2017-02-06 01:59:59 -0500

wishzz gravatar image

Hi,

I was recently graphing the relative angular velocity of a link(applying torque via ROS' Wrench service) and decided to change the "max step size" in Gazebo GUI parameters from 0.0001 to 0.0000001. When I did that, the magnitude of the angular velocities decrease by a factor of ~4 for some reason.

Why does changing the "max step size" change the angular velocities so drastically? Should I be expecting such a drastic change in the system? Intuitively, I would've guess that decreasing the "max step size" would decrease the uncertainty not the magnitude of angular velocity.

Thanks ahead of time!

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Closed for the following reason Gazebo Question: The Gazebo community prefers to answer questions at: http://answers.gazebosim.org by gvdhoorn
close date 2017-02-06 02:49:45.787450

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This is really a question about the mechanisms underlying Gazebo's dynamics simulation. I think you'll have a better chance of getting good answers over at answers.gazebosim.org. As such, I'm going to close this question.

gvdhoorn gravatar image gvdhoorn  ( 2017-02-06 02:48:52 -0500 )edit

Having said that, could I ask you to post a link to the question you open at answers.gazebosim.org so future readers have a way to get to a (potential) answer?

Thanks.

gvdhoorn gravatar image gvdhoorn  ( 2017-02-06 02:49:38 -0500 )edit
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