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Problem with gazebo differential drive plugin

asked 2020-06-24 11:10:52 -0500

elementaryshr gravatar image

updated 2020-06-24 11:14:52 -0500

Hi Everyone,

I want to launch a gazebo (11) world and model in ROS Noetic. This also contains differential drive controller defined as follows:

   <plugin name="differential_drive_controller" filename="libgazebo_ros_diff_drive.so">
     <robotNamespace />
     <alwaysOn>true</alwaysOn>
     <updateRate>10</updateRate>
     <legacyMode>true</legacyMode>
     <leftJoint>left_wheel_joint</leftJoint>
     <rightJoint>right_wheel_joint</rightJoint>
     <wheelSeparation>0.5380</wheelSeparation>
     <wheelDiameter>0.2410</wheelDiameter>
     <torque>20</torque>
     <commandTopic>cmd_vel</commandTopic>
     <odometryTopic>odom</odometryTopic>
     <odometryFrame>odom</odometryFrame>
     <robotBaseFrame>chassis</robotBaseFrame>
     <publishWheelTF>false</publishWheelTF>
     <publishWheelJointState>false</publishWheelJointState>
     <rosDebugLevel>na</rosDebugLevel>
     <wheelAcceleration>0</wheelAcceleration>
     <wheelTorque>5</wheelTorque>
     <odometrySource>world</odometrySource>
     <publishTf>1</publishTf>
  </plugin>

But when launched, I am getting libgazebo_ros_diff_drive.so not found error. If I use libDiffDrivePlugin.so (as this binary is present at the GAZEBO_PLUGIN_PATH) , I get following error

[Err] [DiffDrivePlugin.cc:52] DiffDrive plugin missing <left_joint> element
[Err] [DiffDrivePlugin.cc:55] DiffDrive plugin missing <right_joint> element

I tried to follow the steps mentioned here. Is there any update with respect to how the default plugins work in Gazebo 11? Because it is working in Gazebo 9 and melodic.

Thanks and regards, Shreyas

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answered 2020-06-24 13:43:33 -0500

elementaryshr gravatar image

I solved this problem by installing gazebo-plugins package.

sudo apt install ros-noetic-gazebo-plugins

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