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: Transport Library

Communication between the simulation server and client tools uses an advanced message passing system. These tutorials describe how to use Gazebo's message passing infrastructure.

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Topics subscription
How to subscribe to gazebo topics.
Custom messages
How to create custom messages