Gazebo Tutorials

Gazebo tutorials are organized into Guided and Categorized. Documentation is also available for the API, and a help forum is located at Gazebo Answers.

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Guided

A curriculum-style set of tutorials, recommended for people new to Gazebo.

Beginner
First-time Gazebo users

  1. Overview and Installation
  2. Understanding the GUI
  3. Model Editor
Bonus material
  1. Building with custom SVG
  2. Building Editor
  3. Logging and Playback

Intermediate
Customize simulation

  1. Construct a Velodyne LiDAR
  2. Model appearance
  3. Sensor Noise
  4. Upload Velodyne model
  5. Control plugin
  6. Connect to ROS

Advanced
Contribute to Gazebo.

  1. Where is the code?
  2. Run your own copy of Gazebo
  3. Workflow
  4. Code quality
  5. Code review

Category: Connect to ROS

ROS is a robot control framework. These tutorials describe how to interface Gazebo and ROS.

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ROS overview
Overview of ROS integration.
ROS 2 overview
Overview of ROS 2 integration.
Which combination of ROS/Gazebo versi...
Details the reasons to pick an specific ROS or Gazebo ver...
Installing gazebo_ros_pkgs (ROS 1)
Installing gazebo_ros_pkgs for ROS 1.
Installing gazebo_ros_pkgs (ROS 2)
Installing gazebo_ros_pkgs for ROS 2.
Using roslaunch
Using roslaunch to start Gazebo, world files and URDF mod...
ROS Depth Camera Integration
Connect a Gazebo depth camera to ROS.
URDF in Gazebo
Using a URDF in Gazebo
Gazebo plugins in ROS
Using Gazebo plugins with ROS
ROS control
Using actuators, controllers, and ros_control with Gazebo.
ROS communication
ROS communication with Gazebo.
ROS plugin
Create ROS for Gazebo.
Advanced ROS Integration
Miscellaneous Gazebo-ROS tricks and tips.