Gazebo Simulation

The Gazebo simulation lets you interact with the Robot model inside of Gazebo without having the robot in real life.

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Requirements

You need to have Gazebo and ROS downloaded before executing any of the commands. Visit our ROS and Gazebo pages for information on how to install.

<aside> 💡 Please execute the following code blocks in a new Terminal window to simulate these products

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• *ros-control function package*

sudo apt-get install ros-noetic-ros-control

• *ros-controllers function package*

sudo apt-get install ros-noetic-ros-controllers

• *gazebo-ros function package*

sudo apt-get install ros-noetic-gazebo-ros

• *gazebo-ros-control function package*

sudo apt-get install ros-noetic-gazebo-ros-control..

• *rqt-robot-steering plug-in*

sudo apt-get install ros-noetic-rqt-robot-steering

• keyboard controller

sudo apt-get install ros-noetic-teleop-twist-keyboard

Agile-X Workspace

In order to run the simulations, you will need the entire Agile-X workspace. Open up a terminal. Navigate to the place you would like to store your Agile-X simulation folder and execute the following commands in order.

1. Create a new directory for your workspace

mkdir AgileX_ws