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Package Summary

Package deprecated This package has been deprecated as of January 2025 with Gazebo classic 11 reaching end-of-life. Users are highly encouraged to migrate to the new Gazebo using our migration guides (https://gazebosim.org/docs/latest/gazebo_classic_migration)

Interface for using ROS with the Gazebo simulator.

Overview

gazebo_ros_pkgs is a set of ROS packages that provide the necessary interfaces to simulate a robot in the Gazebo 3D rigid body simulator for robots. It integrates with ROS using ROS messages, services and dynamic reconfigure.

Some of the features of gazebo_ros_pkgs include:

Gazebo Simulator supported version

The major version (i.e 7.x series of gazebo7 for ROS Kinetic/Lunar) of gazebo present in ROS is selected at the beginning of the ROS release cycle and will be kept (due to binary compatibility reasons) during the whole life of the ROS distribution. }}}

ROS Melodic is using the gazebo-9.x series

Some of the new features of Gazebo9 are:

A list of all the changes are available at the Gazebo 9.x changelog file.

Migrating from previous ROS releases

Migrating from a previous version of ROS could require to adapt code in two different aspects:

Documentation and Support

Documentation

Support

Gazebo/ROS robot simulations ready to use

Different robots provide Gazebo Simulation support out of the box. Among others:


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