Gazebo

Create a ROS sensor plugin for Gazebo

Ricardo Téllez 07 Jan 2016

There are magnificent tutorials about how to create plugins for Gazebo in the GazeboSim webpage. There are even some tutorials about how to create plugins for Gazebo + ROS, which show that there are...

Gazebo rendering abstraction

Open Source Robotics Foundation 30 Sep 2015

During his internship with OSRF, Mike Kasper developed a new ignition-robotics rendering library. The key feature of this library is that it provides an abstract render-engine interface for building ...

Fifty planes in the air running ROS & Gazebo

Open Source Robotics Foundation 23 Sep 2015

The Advanced Robotic Systems Engineering Lab at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA recently flew fifty small autonomous planes together using ROS....

Gazebo gets better at flying and diving

Open Source Robotics Foundation 15 Jun 2015

As another result of the exciting DARPA Robotics Challenge, Gazebo has improved its capabilities in the aeronautics and hydrodynamics fields. We expect these changes to benefit the way UAVs and UUVs a...

DARPA’s HAPTIX project hopes to provide prosthetic hands with sense of touch

Open Source Robotics Foundation 11 Feb 2015

The Gazebo team has been hard at work setting up a simulation environment for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)’s Hand Proprioception and Touch Interfaces (HAPTIX) program. The g...

OpenStreetMap support in Gazebo

Open Source Robotics Foundation 22 Oct 2014

During her internship as part of the Gnome Outreach Program for Women, Tashwin Khurana developed a tool for downloading data from the OpenStreetMap database to produce a corresponding world file fo...

Gzweb for mobile platforms

Open Source Robotics Foundation 05 May 2014

Gzweb Mobile from OSRF on Vimeo. During her Gnome Outreach Program for Women internship with OSRF, Louise Poubel made Gzweb work on mobile platforms by designing a mobile-friendly interface and imp...

Open source robotics foundation announced

John Payne 17 May 2012

Announced via the Willow Garage website, the Open Source Robotics Foundation, Inc. (OSRF) is an independent non-profit organization founded by members of the global robotics community. Its mission is ...