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
This post shows you how to install aquasim in ns3. Aquasim is a simulator used for simulating underwater Wireless Sensor networks which was used with ns2 earlier, and now it is available for ns3 too. OS Used: Linux Mint 18.1 or Ubuntu 16.04 Ns version used: ns-3.27 Assumption: You should have installed ns3 before trying the following. Please follow the ns3 installation instructions here . Open the terminal and give the following instructions. $] cd ns-allinone-3.27/ns-3.27/src $] git clone https://github.com/rmartin5/aqua-sim-ng.git $] cd .. $] ./waf --enable-examples --enable-tests configure --disable-python $] ./waf Once successful, you will get a screen like this which indicates that aquasim is installed successfully in ns3. Aquasim in ns3 To test an example, go to the folder ~ns-3.27/src/aqua-sim-ng/examples/ and copy the file broadcastMAC_example.cc to the scratch/ folder and type the command to run the example. $] cd ns-allinone-3.27/ns-3.27 $] .