Design a User-defined robot of your choice (or you can use the URDF file) and enable the LIDAR Scanner so that any obstacle placed on the path of the light scan will cut the light rays. Visualize the robot in the Gazebo workspace, and also show the demonstration in RViz. (NB: Gain knowledge on wiring URDF file and .launch file for enabling any user-defined robot to get launched in the gazebo platform.) SLAM : One of the most popular applications of ROS is SLAM(Simultaneous Localization and Mapping). The objective of the SLAM in mobile robotics is to construct and update the map of an unexplored environment with the help of the available sensors attached to the robot which will be used for exploring. URDF: Unified Robotics Description Format, URDF, is an XML specification used in academia and industry to model multibody systems such as robotic manipulator arms for manufacturing assembly lines and animatronic robots for amusement parks. URDF is especially popular with users of the Robo
NetAnim is a Network Animator that comes preloaded with ns3. During compilation of ns3, #NetAnim may not compile. There are other alternatives for installation of NetAnim, for more info, see this post http://www.nsnam.com/2014/08/installing-netanim-software-for-ns3-in.html This post will tell you to compile NetAnim that comes along with #ns3. Sometimes the above methods might not work, but the bundled netanim will work sure. Here is the way to do... $] sudo apt-get update $] sudo apt-get install qt4-dev-tools qt4-qmake, qt4-qmake qt4-default $] cd ns-allinone-3.24.1/netanim-3.106/ $] make clean $] make $] qmake NetAnim.pro $] ./NetAnim file.xml The above commands will help to install NetAnim See the image given below, NetAnim T S Pradeep Kumar